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After attending Holy Year ceremonies, Thomas Cardinal Tien, 60, Archbishop of Peking and the first Chinese to be elevated to cardinal, arrived in Manhattan on his way to a Cincinnati hospital for treatment of an eye ailment and a heart condition.* With the aid of an interpreter, he told reporters that he was seriously worried about the uncertain future of the 12,000 priests and nuns in Red China of whom 11,000 are Chinese...
Died. Sinclair Lewis, 65, novelist; first U.S. author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; of a heart ailment; in Rome...
...offered the most dramatic evidence to date of the powers of the new drug. Though cautious in prediction as always, doctors studying Gaines's recovery -together with that of several badly burned children-seemed inclined to agree that ACTH (which has been hopefully tried out on virtually every ailment from tuberculosis to snakebite) might prove a potent cure for burns...
Died. Billy B. Van,* 80, palavering onetime vaudeville comic, who toured with Heavyweight Champion James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, retired 25 years ago to manufacture soap, plugged chewing gum on the radio, emerged from retirement last year to play in Mae West's Diamond Lil; of a heart ailment; in Newport...
Died. Dr. Fritz Wittels, 69, Vienna-born psychoanalyst, disciple of Sigmund Freud; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. After clashing with the master in the '20s ("It is difficult to live in the shadow of a great genius"), Wittels recanted, wrote a eulogistic biography (Freud and His Time...