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Died. Jack Mills, 64, engineer of the royal mail train that in 1963 was robbed of $7,000,000; of pneumonia; in Nantwich, England. Mills was so severely beaten during the robbery that he was unable to continue as an engineer. When the wife of one of the bandits received $72,000 from a newspaper for her story of the crime, public embarrassment led to a fund-raising drive for Mills, who collected...
Died. Mary Caresse Crosby, 77, literary godmother to the "lost generation" of expatriate writers in Paris; of pneumonia; in Rome. A wealthy Manhattan socialite, Mrs. Crosby founded the Black Sun Press in Paris in 1927 and first published such avant-garde works as Hart Crane's The Bridge, Joyce's Work in Progress and Hemingway's Torrents of Spring; she was also a patron of Ezra Pound and introduced Dorothy Parker, Kay Boyle and William Faulkner to European readers...
Died. Hal March, 49, Broadway actor, onetime quizmaster on the infamous TV giveaway show The $64,000 Question; of pneumonia following the removal of a cancerous lung; in Los Angeles. A journeyman actor when he took over Question in 1955, March stayed with the show for three years before quitting in favor of a Broadway career. He had no connection with the 1959 quiz scandals, and went on to success as the star of the 1961 comedy Come Blow Your Horn...
Really Encouraged. Leaving Judy behind, Agnew flew to Saigon on New Year's Day for a 24-hour visit. General Creighton Abrams, U.S. commander in Viet Nam, was too ill with pneumonia to confer with him, but Agnew was warmly received by President Nguyen Van Thieu. "The hawk," a palace aide said later, "is always welcome." Agnew brought no specific message from Nixon. However, he assured Thieu that U.S. withdrawal would be gradual...
...apparently platonic; nonetheless, it brought the composer an astonishingly productive second youth. From the time of his meeting with Kamila, his music surged with an energy and abundance of imagination barely suggested by his earler work. Janáček was continuously productive until his death in 1928 from pneumonia, caught while chasing Mrs. Stössl's small son up and down the hills near his native village...