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Though he had a virus ailment, a touch of pneumonia and a 100.2° temperature, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield left his bed at Bethesda Naval Hospital, bundled up against a chill wind, and was chauffeured to the Capitol. Mansfield had made sure in advance that other Administration stalwarts would also be on hand. As for the G.O.P., Minority Leader Everett Dirksen warned potential no-shows: "By God, you're going to be here." To a man, they were. Thus, after a Dirksen-led filibuster had tied up the Senate for a total of 13 days in an attempt...
Died. Hedda Hopper, 75, Hollywood's genial scold; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles (see SHOW BUSINESS...
Died. Joseph Knowland, 92, Republican publisher (from 1915 to 1960) of the Oakland Tribune and U.S. Congressman (five terms), who helped boost Earl Warren to the governorship and his own son William to the U.S. Senate; of pneumonia; in Piedmont, Calif...
Died. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, 72, younger of World War I's draft-dodging brothers; of pneumonia; in Richmond, Va. The playboy sons of a wealthy German-American brewer in Philadelphia, Grover and his brother Erwin skipped town to avoid a draft call in 1918, declaring that they would not "fight against our kind." Erwin eventually surrendered, but Grover led the cops on a chase around the U.S. for a year and a half before he was found hiding inside a window seat in his mother's mansion. Sentenced to five years, he soon escaped, and this time fled...
Died. Arthur Sears Henning, 89, dean of Washington's press corps, the Chicago Tribune's softspoken, acid-penned bureau chief from 1914 to 1949 and close associate of the late Publisher Robert McCormick, whose high-cholered, ultraconservative views he usually reflected; of pneumonia; in Washington Henning knew every President since Theodore Roosevelt, classified him a "outstanding," Woodrow Wilson as "irascible" and Calvin Coolidge, extraordinarily enough, as a man who in private "would talk your arm off if you gave him a chance...