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Died. William Ellsworth Hoy, 99, baseball's oldest former major leaguer who between 1888 and 1902 played for the Washington Senators, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox; of a stroke; in Cincinnati. Deafened when two years old by spinal meningitis, Hoy did not learn to speak till his wife taught him at 36, retained a lifelong preference for sign language, and in the blunt innocence of a bygone age was affectionately dubbed "Dummy" by his teammates...
...land where no other men have ever set foot, four rugged geologists from the University of Minnesota are collecting rock specimens and mapping the land in the Sentinal Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, one of the biggest unexplored mountain ranges on earth...
Died. Robert Ellsworth Gross, 64, intuitive titan of the U.S. aircraft industry, an unmechanical, piano-playing Harvardman (class of '19) who made his first million by the age of 30, blew it manufacturing sport seaplanes, but in 1932 plunked down $40,000 for bankrupt Lockheed Aircraft, which he proceeded to build into the nation's 28th biggest industrial corporation, with 1960 gross sales of $1,332,289,000; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. As chairman and moving spirit of giant Lockheed. Bostonian Gross equipped the armed forces with aircraft and weapons ranging from...
...Chile Robert F.Woodward, 52, as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. But behind that appointment lay five months of incredible confusion and frustration within the New Frontier. Before Woodward, no fewer than 21 persons had been sounded out for the Inter-American Affairs job. Such candidates as Ellsworth Bunker, retired Ambassador to India, and Carl Spaeth, dean of the Stanford University Law School, had politely but firmly rejected it. And Bob Woodward accepted only because, as a career diplomat, he had little choice...
...persona non grata to the Dulles-era State Department, will step out of seven years of political exile and go to Yugoslavia-if, as expected, Marshal Tito will accept him. Already packing his bags for India is Harvard Economist John Galbraith, author of The Affluent Society. He will replace Ellsworth Bunker, who, as an able diplomat and devoted Democrat, is in line for another top ambassadorship, most likely to Brazil...