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Castro has been largely out of sight for three weeks, with an illness apparently more serious than the announced "touch of pneumonia." Brother Raul rushed home last week from Moscow's flattering and pudgy embrace. Reports inevitably spread that Cuba's ruling triumvirate was caught up in a rivalry for power...
Sick in bed last week with pneumonia, Fidel Castro was made just a shade more miserable by outcries of opposition in the streets. After a special Mass at Havana cathedral for "those persecuted under Communist regimes." members of the congregation surged into the street shouting, "Cuba, yes! Russia, no!", a variation on the Castro cry of "Cuba, yes! Yanqui, no!'' For 30 minutes the churchgoers battled pro-Castro hecklers. Next day another street fight erupted after a Mass in suburban Miramar to mark the 24th anniversary of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Castro wearily hauled himself...
Died. The Right Rev. Edward Lambe Parsons, 92, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of California from 1924 until retirement in 1941, outspoken advocate of uniting the Episcopal and Presbyterian churches; after being ill with pneumonia; in San Francisco...
...ladies of U.S. business, longtime president of cosmetics maker Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Inc., who took over on the death of her first husband (Vincent B. Thomas) in 1918, became in 1937 the nation's highest-paid ($100,000) woman executive, sold out to Lever Brothers in 1947; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Died. Constance Adams DeMille, 87, publicity-shunning wife of Hollywood's late great showman, Cecil B. DeMille; of pneumonia ; in Hollywood. An actress over the protests of her New Jersey judge father, she married DeMille in 1902, two years after they had met in the cast of the Charles Frohman melodrama, Hearts Are Trumps, trouped with him for several years before he entered producing and theater management. In 1913, when DeMille gave up the stage altogether for moviemaking, she told him, "Do what you think right and I will be with you" - she was for almost 57 years until...