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Died. Herb Shriner, 51, low-key comic, whose homespun, Will Rogers-like style entertained a generation of Americans; with his wife Eileen when their car left the road and hit a tree while they were returning from a nightclub date; in Delray Beach, Fla. Shriner broke into vaudeville in the '30s with a routine that combined the harmonica and wry, sly jokes about life back home in Indiana. ("I came from a small town. Well, I'll give you an idea of the size of it. It was between the first and second signs of a Burma Shave...
Died. Robert E. Woodruff, 83, boss of the Erie Railroad (now Erie-Lack-awanna) from 1939 to 1956; of cancer; in Delray Beach, Fla. "The scarlet woman of Wall Street" was the name for the four-times bankrupt Erie in 1939 when Woodruff, then one of the road's few able executives, took over as a court-appointed trustee. He needed only two years to get the company out of receivership; a year later, as president, he was able to announce a $1 common-stock dividend-first for the hapless Erie in 69 years...
...Viet Nam, though he did talk his way into flying one strafing mission over North Viet Nam after delivering a replacement plane last July; of head injuries when his 16-year-old daughter-who also died of head injuries-lost control of their Volkswagen and the car overturned; in Delray Beach...
Edmund H. Olson '68 of Quincy House and South Weymouth, record manager; Henry W. Rau '68 Quincy House and Delray Beach, Fla., personnel manager and Gordon H. Selion Jr. '68 of Dunster House and Belmont, supply manager, were also elected...
After their first alarm subsided, fanny-dippers and local authorities have discovered that East Coast surfers are mostly clean-cut collegians whose hair is as short as their surfing history. In Delray Beach, Fla., the Seacrest Hotel bitterly opposed an ordinance that gave 200 ft. of adjoining beach over to surfers, claiming that they would drive away wealthy regulars. Now the hotel is happy it lost the fight. Its patrons crowd the outdoor terraces on hot afternoons to watch the surfers. Said Police Chief James Grantham: "There hasn't been a single problem. If I were younger...