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Died. George H. Earle III, 84, New Deal Governor of Pennsylvania; of pneumonia; in Bryn Mawr. Scion of a wealthy Main Line Republican clan, Earle was so moved by the miseries of Depression-stricken workers, which he witnessed from the serving end of a breadline, that he joined F.D.R.'s Democratic Party, and as Governor of Pennsylvania (1935-39) pushed through a "little New Deal" of labor, tax and welfare reform, boasting, "We have let no one starve in Pennsylvania...
Another defense motion asks that the jury panel of 150 for the Edelin trial be stricken, and a new panel summonsed...
...outback. Navy units were immediately dispatched from Sydney with emergency supplies, but it will take them a week to complete the 2,500-mile voyage. Meanwhile, air force planes, commercial airlines and private jets donated by several Australian companies were airlifting 3,000 people a day out of the stricken city...
...intercession were confirmed by the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of Rites. Confirmation of two additional miracles is usually required for canonization; in Mother Seton's case, however, Pope Paul decided that one would suffice. It occurred in 1963 when Carl Kalin, a construction worker, was stricken with a complicated viral affliction of the brain...
...What I write about," he later explained, "is not war but the courage of man." Stricken with cancer in 1970, Ryan waged his own last battle against recurrent pain to complete A Bridge Too Far, a history of the disastrous 1944 airdrop at Arnhem, which was No. 2 on the bestseller lists when he died. ∎ Died. Rosemary Lane, 58, Hollywood's "Betty Coed" of the 1930s; of pulmonary obstruction and diabetes; in Hollywood. One of the "singing Lane sisters" who broke into movies with Bandleader Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, Rosemary starred in the 1937 musical Varsity Show...