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...besieged Britain in 1940 to the last, curt medical bulletin ("Shortly after 8 a.m., Sir Winston Churchill died at his London home"), Charles McMoran Wilson was his confidant and companion. He traveled 140,000 miles with Churchill, watched him grapple with Stalin and Roosevelt, nursed him through pneumonia in the North African campaign and the series of strokes that punctuated and palsied his postwar comeback as Prime Minister...
Died. Russel Grouse, 73, the plumper half of Broadway's dynamic duo, Lindsay and Grouse, whose 32 years of cooperative writing produced such star-spangled hits as Life with Father, State of the Union and The Sound of Music; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Grouse was a press agent in 1934 when Playwright Howard Lindsay asked his help on a rewrite of Cole Porter's Anything Goes. "We don't complement, we supplement each other," said Lindsay afterward, and the two went on to conceive twelve plays and musicals locked together in a room, the impeccable, reserved Lindsay...
...Biffle, 76, a 20-year veteran of backroom politics on Capitol Hill, who reached his apogee when, as Secretary of the U.S. Senate in 1945-47 and again in 1949-52, his friendship with President Truman made him a power pivot between the White House and the Senate; of pneumonia; in Washington. A wispy, whispery Arkansan, Biffle, as the man in charge of the Senate's machinery, was the one to see to grease the ways for a bill or swing a vote here and there. His political judgment was considered "blue chip" after the 1948 campaign when...
Refuting the Lie. Back home in Bucharest this week, Nicolae Ceausescu (pronounced Chow-shess-coo) quietly celebrated the successful completion of his first full year in power. Under Ceausescu and his predecessor, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who died of pneumonia just a year ago, Rumania has utterly disproved two-thirds of Czar Nicholas' caustic calumny.* Rumania today is indubitably a state, defiantly a nation, and quite proud to admit the Czar's final point about professionalism. Moreover, it was Rumania that in many ways set the pace in the quiet repudiation of the Czar's successors-a chain...
Died. Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz, 80, who led history's greatest armada to victory in the Pacific; of pneumonia; on Yerba Buena Island, in San Francisco Bay (see THE NATION...