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Died. Yomejiro Noguchi,* 72, Japanese poet and professor who in his younger days came to the U.S., married a Bryn Mawr girl (their son: Manhattan Sculptor Isamu Noguchi), then went back to Tokyo, where he discarded his Western wife and ideas, became a great booster of Japanese imperialism; of stomach cancer; in Toyooka, Japan...
Died. Harry Bacharach, 73, five times mayor (1911-20, 1930-35) and longtime "No. 1 Booster" of Atlantic City; in Atlantic City. An ardent publicity-grabber (he once carried on the city's business in an amusement-pier office flanked by an educated chimpanzee and a half-man-half-woman), he nonetheless worked noisily at keeping his resort free of known thugs and "undesirables...
...Texan who didn't think so was Dallas' yippy, yeasty John William Carpenter, 65, the state's prime booster. He had built the state's first power & light company (which ran only at night "except for one day a week for ironing"), became president of its second largest one in 1927. Now he had a hand in more than 42 different enterprises, ranging from the Jack and Mule Breeders Association to river & harbor improvements. But his greatest concern for the past 25 years has been that "every bolt, every nut, every spool of wire...
...Legs. Another cost booster was overall inefficiency. Production hands liked their overtime; production heads were no longer anxious to finish a picture that might be kept in the can for two or three years. Typical result: 20th Century, which a few years ago finished pictures in an average of 47 days, now takes 85 days...
Died. Charles Oscar Andrews, 69, old-line Democrat, onetime Florida circuit judge, Townsend Plan booster, U.S. Senator from Florida since 1936; of a heart ailment; in Bethesda...