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Died. Paul Boepple, 74, one of the nation's leading choral directors; of pneumonia; in Brattleboro, Vt. As director of the Dessoff Choirs from 1936 until his retirement in 1968, the Swiss-born Boepple was instrumental in expanding American amateur choral singing beyond the traditional repertory, introducing the works of Contemporary Composers Frank Martin and Arthur Honegger, and reviving such once-neglected oratorios as Handel's Israel in Egypt...
Died. Dr. David de Sola Pool, 85, retired rabbi of New York City's Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue and a world leader of Judaism; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Pool was one of three Americans on the Zionist Commission to Palestine in 1919; the next year he was in charge of the distribution of American funds to Jewish war victims in Palestine and Syria. An authority on the history of Jews in America, he made it his mission to promote understanding of their important role in settling the New World. In Portraits Etched in Stone (1952), he described the arrival...
...crush the panting beast under his treads (the event was squashed by public outrage). Other drivers play a game called "spooking." The object is to chase a terrified deer (or coyote, wolf or moose) until it drops. Debilitated by winter cold, the animal often dies of exhaustion or pneumonia...
Died. Representative William L. Dawson, 84, oldest member of Congress and for three decades the most influential black in Chicago politics; of pneumonia; in Chicago. First elected city alderman as a Republican in 1933, Dawson switched parties in 1939 and three years later was voted to the first of 14 terms representing the South Side slum wards. The first black committee chairman (Government Operations), he actively opposed the poll tax and fought vigorously for integration of the armed forces. In recent years, younger and more militant blacks had labeled Dawson an Uncle Tom for his close alliance with Mayor Richard...
Died. Peter II, 47, last King of Yugoslavia; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Peter was eleven years old in 1934 when his father was assassinated; seven years later he took full control of the government from a council of regents and led a brief campaign against Axis invaders before fleeing to Britain. Formally deposed by the Tito government in 1945, the ex-monarch, who had left all his riches at home, worked as a public relations man in New York City in the early '50s, more recently as a savings and loan executive in California...