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Died. Kate Cross-Eyes, ninetyish, widow of Geronimo, famed Ghiricahua Apache leader who terrorized white settlers in Arizona and New Mexico in the 1880s; in Mescalero, N.Mex. The last of Geronimo's wives to die. Kate was captured in 1886, the year he and his war band surrendered...
...done by the three main copy desks, foreign, city and national, which form a semicircle at the southeast end of the city room. There is also an "obit" and utility desk (the Times keeps 1,000 obits in type) presided over by white-goateed "Judge" William D. Evans, ninetyish, who boasts that he has buried all the other members of the Yale Class of 1885. With so much copy coming in, there is not much time (or inclination) for cutting it or making it more readable. "The Times," cracked one old hand, "is probably the best unedited paper...
Died. Themistocles Sophoulis, ninetyish, Premier of Greece since 1947; of a stroke; in Athens (see FOREIGN NEWS...