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...gilly for his neat bag of vaudevillian's tricks. This spring, between performances, he made flying trips cross-country to play the leading comedy role in the Metropolitan Opera's Gilbert-and-Sullivanish souffle, La Périchole, which he also staged. "I sound like a sick walrus when I'm in good voice," he says. Within a matter of months he also bested Mike Wallace on Night Beat, played the bean peddler in TV's Jack and the Beanstalk, made some records with Bea Lillie, played all the parts in a recording of Alice...
Barrel-chested, walrus-mustached K.I. Singh, 54, onetime Indian army clerk and practicing homeopathic physician, earned the sobriquet "Robin Hood of the Himalayas" when he began parceling out land to peasant farmers during a nationwide revolt against the autocratic Rana dynasty in 1950. Worried by Singh's deeds of derring-do as head of a band of ragged Nepalese army irregulars, nervous Indian army "observers" stationed in Nepal clapped him into jail. He escaped the Indians, but was picked up again. One night in 1952 Singh broke jail and led a coup that captured the capital's airfield...
Goatee aflutter, walrus mustache aquiver, Colonel Harrison Gray Otis, 48, late of the Union Army and-in 1886-editor of the Los Angeles Times (circ. 2,500), fired his editorial cannon ball into the boom-frantic town by the Pacific. To the pueblo settlement seething with rainbow chasers, this shot barked out a gruff prophecy: thenceforward, the Times and her guardians would man the lanyard of Los Angeles' destiny...
Died. Charles Henry Campbell, 52, witty, walrus-mustached, New Orleans-raised Briton, longtime (1923-42) staffer of the New Orleans Item and Morning Tribune, Britain's head pressagent in Washington since 1942; of a stomach hemorrhage; in Knoxville, Tenn...
Died. William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, 86, walrus-mustached, stogiechomping, classics-quoting onetime (1931-35) governor of Oklahoma, two-term (1913-17) Congressman, who carried his lunch to work, planted chickpeas on the lawn of the governor's mansion, called out the National Guard to successfully defy Texas and a federal court by closing a Red River toll bridge during a legal hassle, next month used militia again to shut down Oklahoma's gushing oilfields until purchasers raised their bids to private well owners; after a stroke; in Oklahoma City. He campaigned ("Bread and Butter, Bacon and Beans...