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...whose office won the 1954 Nobel Peace Prize for its thankless task of finding "permanent solutions" to the plight of some 350,000 anti-Communist refugees in Europe and Asia; of a heart attack while playing tennis; in Geneva, Switzerland. Prewar editor (1929-33) of the big Amsterdam Telegraaf, bald, brilliant Dr. Goedhart became a top-ranking resistance leader, later (1944) moved to London as Minister of Justice in the Dutch government in exile. Lately embittered by apparent indifference to the plight of the "hardcore" refugees, Goedhart threatened to resign, crying, "It is a scandal that 65,000 refugees...
...Moscow's Dynamo Stadium, First Party Secretary Khrushchev, straw hat perched precariously on his egg-bald pate, volubly told a crowd of 75,000 that Western friendship for Yugoslavia had been based only on 1) the Soviet Union's conflict with Yugoslavia and 2) the hope that Yugoslavia would return to capitalism. Khrushchev's speech, underlining hostility to the West and stressing the unity of the "Socialist" camp, gave a sharper edge to Tito's prepared address. What Tito had to say, read in faltering Russian, tamely supported Soviet policy on the two Germanys (though Belgrade...
Died. Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King, U.S.N., 77, tall, frosty, wartime (1942-45) Chief of Naval Operations, 1941 commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet; of a heart ailment; in Kittery, Me. Before the dust had cleared from the Pearl Harbor debris, President Roosevelt summoned bleak, bottle-bald Ernie King from the Navy's second ocean-where he had directed the Atlantic's undeclared war of 1941-to lay down a massive plan of defense and counterattack in the blazing Pacific. ("When they get into trouble," barked King, "they always send for the sons of bitches...
Warren, 65, Douglas, 57, and Black, 70, are the Supreme Court's liberal leaders. On the opposite side in case after case are egg-bald Stanley Reed, 71, dour Sherman Minton, 65, and imperturbable Harold Burton, 67, the court's conservatives. The swing men are Felix Frankfurter, 73, Tom Clark, 56, and John Marshall Harlan, 57 Frankfurter, the perky sparrow, brilliant but baffling, is still disliked by many conservatives who originally fought his appointment, and is now distrusted by many liberals who feel he has betrayed them. As a general rule, he would rather decide a case...
Died. Guy Bridges Kibbee, 70, bottle-bald comedian of stage (Torch Song) and screen (Babbitt, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), best known to moviegoers for his "Scattergood Baines" series and early Shirley Temple films; of Parkinson's disease; in East Islip...