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Died. Edward A. Walsh, 78, one of baseball's great pitchers, whose dazzling spitball won 40 games in 1908; of cancer; in Pompano Beach, Fla. Walsh won an average of 24 games a season during his peak years (1906-12) with the Chicago White Sox, pitched a record total of 464 innings in one season, but was so overworked that he faded fast in his early 303. He never made more than $6,500 a year, and although elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in 1946, had to eke out a living on a pittance...
About three months ago, after a hernia operation revealed the serious progression of his cancer, Dulles underwent 18 jolting sessions of radiation therapy and one injection of radioactive gold, then set off hopefully for a convalescence under the sun and beside the sea in Florida. But the hope was short-lived. Two weeks later, John Foster Dulles flew back to Washington and checked into Walter Reed hospital for the last time...
...former chairman (1953-57) of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and one of the finest U.S. military minds, was recalled temporarily as a special Pentagon consultant to help pinch-hit for J.C.S. Chairman Nate Twining, who will be out at least another five weeks while recovering from lung-cancer surgery...
Died. John Foster Dulles, 71; of cancer; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Died. Irakly Tsereteli, 77, leading Social Democrat who returned from Siberian exile at the outbreak of the 1917 Russian Revolution, served as Minister of the Interior in Kerensky's provisional government until Lenin and the Bolsheviks ran him and all other moderates out of power; of cancer; in Manhattan...