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...life to philanthropy. Among her beneficiaries were the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a tree-lined vest-pocket park called Greenacres, which she opened to provide "some moments of serenity" on Manhattan's bustling East Side. ∙ Died. Gordon Browning, 86, three-term Governor of Tennessee and six-term Congressman (1923-35); in Huntingdon, Tenn. Democrat Browning won his first term as Governor in 1936 with what he called the unsolicited support of the monarch of Memphis, Boss E.H. Crump. Once in office, Browning became a self-styled people's Governor, hammering...
...Public School 161 in Manhattan, three-fourths of the students are Hispanic. So the community school board decided to rechristen the school, which bore the name of Fiorello H. LaGuardia. As a three-term mayor, the "Little Flower" championed city dwellers of every race and creed. But no matter; he was Italian, not Hispanic. The board thereupon chose the name of Pedro Albizu Campos, who before his death in 1965 proved his "unselfish devotion," in the board's words, "to the cause of liberation of Puerto Rico from the yoke of American colonialism...
Died. Walter Jodok Kohler Jr., 71. three-term Republican Governor of Wisconsin (1951-56); of heart disease; in Sheboygan, Wis. The son of a former Wisconsin Governor and a member of the family that owns Kohler Co., one of the nation's largest manufacturers of plumbing equipment, Kohler was a solid backer of the Eisenhower Administration. His political career ended when he lost to liberal Democrat William Proxmire in the 1957 race for the Senate seat left vacant by the sudden death of Joseph R. McCarthy...
...Bowden Connolly Jr. is about to step back into public life: President Ford plans to return him to the ten-member Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. For a man who was Richard Nixon's Treasury Secretary, Lyndon Johnson's close adviser, John Kennedy's Navy Secretary, and three-term Governor of Texas, it is another start. The board is to be given larger responsibilities in overseeing the Government's battered intelligence agencies. TIME National Political Correspondent Robert Ajemian interviewed Connolly on a recent visit to New York. His report...
Daniel J. Clinton, a three-term Independent city councilor, is battling a dangerous trend this year: since his first successful bid for the council in 1969, his electoral position has dropped from fifth place to sixth in 1971 and, finally to eighth...