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Died. William C. Bullitt, 76, U.S. diplomat who left his imprint on history between the great wars; of leukemia; in Neuilly, France. Born into a wealthy Philadelphia family, he was a man of adrenal energy and immense flair, headstrong in his personal relationships (two marriages), fierce in his ambitions, spectacular in his causes and dissents. At 28, he was at the Versailles peace table with Woodrow Wilson, then returned in disenchantment to tell the Senate that Wilson's treaty would only deliver the world to "a new century of war." In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him first...
...controversial M'Naghten rule (which holds a defendant legally insane only if unable to tell right from wrong), and a star defense witness in the 1964 Jack Ruby trial, testifying that even under M'Naghten, Ruby was insane when he shot Lee Harvey Oswald; of leukemia; in Baltimore...
Died. Sir Gerald Dodson, 82, Recorder of London (senior judge at Old Bailey criminal court) from 1937 to 1959 and one of Britain's wittiest justices; of leukemia; in London. Among his shafts: he told a defendant claiming to have a split personality, "Both of you will have to go to prison for 18 months," advised a man accused of threatening to shoot a girl because she would not go out with him, "You can't make love at the point of a revolver with any success," and informed a witness claiming that in Nigeria a man could...
Died. Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, 74, president of the University of Alabama from 1953 to 1957; of leukemia; in Asheville, N.C. A distinguished educator, Carmichael was no match for the segregationists when, in 1956, Autherine Lucy, a Negro, tried to enroll in all-white 'Bama; he tried to obey the federal court order to admit her, but was forced by student riots and an adamant aboard of trustees to expel her, after which he resigned, became a consultant to the Ford Foundation...
Died. Hank Gowdy, 76, star catcher for the fabulous 1914 Boston Braves, who defeated Connie Mack's heavily favored Philadelphia Athletics in the World Series, mainly because of Gowdy's .545 Series batting average, which still stands as a league Series record; of leukemia; in Columbus...