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...retired partner of the New York investment banking firm of Smith, Barney & Co. who, with his wife Marie, donated $35 million in 1961 to endow the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, the largest single gift in the university's history; of pneumonia; in Delray Beach...
Errichetti soon escalated the level of action. He showed up last March at the Corsair, now docked in Delray Beach, Fla., to meet the legendary sheik Kambir Abdul Rahman face to face. This time he had with him New Jersey's four-term Democratic Senator, Harrison ("Pete") Williams, 60. Meeting in the yacht's salon, the visitors spoke to the sheik through an interpreter, a dark-complexioned agent who conveyed their words to the sheik in something approximating Arabic. Nodding and smiling under his burnoose, the sheik, who claimed to speak little English, managed to express his uncomplicated...
DIED. Lou Little, 87, peppery football coach at Columbia University for 26 seasons beginning in 1930; of a heart attack; in Delray Beach, Fla. Little's teams were famous for upset victories, among them a 1934 Rose Bowl win over Stanford, but his most enduring legacy was a winning-isn't-the-only-thing philosophy that was reflected in the de-emphasis of football throughout the Ivy League in the 1950s. The sport, he worried, had become "a sensible game surrounded by crazy people...
Died. Robert Cruickshank, 80, plucky Scottish-born Hall of Fame golfer and gallery favorite; in Delray Beach, Fla. Winner of 20 PGA tournaments from 1921-50, the "Wee Scot" played with an ebullience that once moved him to doff his cap, throw his club in the air and shout, "Thank you, God!" after a crucial shot bounced out of a brook and onto the green. The club, naturally, landed on his head...
Died. William H. Grimes, 79, who helped expand the Wall Street Journal from a specialized financial paper into a national publication offering broad coverage; in Delray Beach, Fla. Grimes spent 38 years with the Journal, first as Washington bureau chief, then as managing editor (1934-1941) and editor (1941-1958). His thoughtful editorials, some of which called for minimum government controls, won him a Pulitzer Prize...