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Died. Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson, 63, publisher of the Washington Times-Herald; of a heart ailment; in Upper Marlboro, Md. (see PRESS...
Died. Dr. George William Lewis, 66, longtime research director for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1924-47); of a heart ailment; in Lake Winola, Pa. As head of the world's greatest aeronautical research agency (serving U.S. plane builders and the armed forces), Dr. Lewis fathered major experimental laboratories at Langley Field. Va., Cleveland, and Moffett Field, Calif., guided a spate of new developments (in propellers, jet propulsion, wind tunnels, etc.), including revolutionary wing designs which cut "profile drag" (the main hindrance to flight efficiency) by about...
Galo Plaza Lasso decided not to wait any longer to find out whether he was the next President of Ecuador. An old foot ailment had begun acting up again, and his Quito doctors had not been able to make up their minds whether the trouble was rheumatism, arthritis or an allergy ("Perhaps an allergy to politics," cracked Plaza). So this week Plaza flew to New York for treatment-leaving Ecuador's ballot counters fussing for the fifth week...
Died. Albert Jesse Browning, 48, vice president of the Ford Motor Co., wartime director of purchases for the U.S. Army; of a heart ailment; in Detroit...
Died. Alexis Felix du Pont, 69, shy director and onetime vice president (1919-46) of the Du Pont munitions and chemical empire; of a heart ailment; in Rehoboth Beach, Del. He entered the family business in 1900, played a major role in the Senate's noisy 1934 investigation of the company's war profits...