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Died. William Oberhardt, 75, charcoal portraitist of distinguished sitters, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Warren G. Harding, Richard M. Nixon. Cardinal Spellman, Bernard Baruch, John Foster Dulles, William Howard Taft, Charles Dana Gibson, Luther Burbank, Thomas A. Edison; of a heart attack; in Pelham, N.Y. "Obie" Oberhardt's portrait of the late Joseph G. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, onetime (1903-11) Speaker of the House of Representatives, appeared on TIME'S first cover, March 3, 1923. Drawing VIPs one after another in one-hour sessions, Oberhardt learned to control his awed nerves by recalling the dry advice...
...Pelham Grenville Wodehouse is by now a part of the Anglo-U.S. climate. Scatty, erratic, now on now off the beam, Wodehouse has nonetheless pulled off the astonishing feat of making his creations a living part of the civilized world. Even the many who cannot stomach him have no option but to respond to the mere word Jeeves with a mental picture of a whole society; while to those who lap him up, a whole corner of mental life is occupied by such characters as Lord Emsworth, Lord ("Uncle Fred") Ickenham, Bertie Wooster, Mr. Mulliner, Psmith and that great...
Members of the Permanent Class Committee from the seven houses and Dudley were announced last night. The newly elected members are: Richard H. Weller of Adams House and Pelham Manor, N.Y. Weller has served on the Adams House Committee and is a member of the Catholic Club. Albert E. Yellin of Dudley and Milton, Mass. Yellin is a member of the Dudley House Committee, the HYRC and the Pre-Medical Society. He also is active in House athletics...
...Battalion Commander; Joseph V. Hajek, of Eliot House and New York City, Battalion Executive Officer; Harold M. Ross, of Eliot House and Kansas City, Kan., "A" Company Commander; Robert S. Hoffsis, of Winthrop House and Albany, N.Y., "B" Company Commander; and Richard H. Weller, of Adams House and Pelham, N.Y., "C" Company Commander...
Died. Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb, 71, Wisconsin's famed North Woods woman doctor; of complications following surgery on a broken hip; in Wausau, Wis. Kansas-born Kate Newcomb had an ever-widening practice in a 70-mile circle around Woodruff, Wis. (pop. 550), where it was always hard sledding. Fame came to her after a "million pennies" drive to raise funds for a tiny community hospital and an appearance (1954) on TV's This Is Your Life; the TV audience ponied up $112,596, and roly-poly Kate became the subject of a sentimental biography, Doctor Kate: Angel...