Monday, Jun. 05, 1950

Married. Judith Coplon, 29, former Justice Department clerk, twice convicted of espionage; and Albert H. Socolov, 29, member of the law firm preparing her appeal; in Brooklyn.

Died. Frederick Chase Taylor (Colonel Lemuel Q.--"People have more fun than anybody"--Stoopnagle), 52, famed comic of radio, vaudeville and screen; of a heart ailment; in Boston. As a continuity writer for a Buffalo radio station, the Colonel teamed up in 1930 with Announcer Budd Hulick to become the addlepated team of Stoopnagle and Budd.

Died. Commander Earl Winfield Spencer, 61, U.S.N. (ret.), first husband of Wallis Warfield, now Duchess of Windsor; of a heart ailment; in San Diego, Calif.

Died. Representative John Lesinski, 65, veteran Democratic Congressman, champion of labor as chairman of the influential House Education and Labor Committee, undeviating foe of the Taft-Hartley Act; of a heart attack; in Dearborn, Mich. John Lesinski was sent to Congress in 1933 as the first Representative of Michigan's newly created 16th congressional district; a labor-minded area sent him back for the next 17 years.

Died. Field Marshal Earl Wavell, 67, Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and Winchester, onetime (1943-47) Viceroy of India, author (Allenby: A Study in Greatness), poet, historian and scholar; after an abdominal operation; in London. Taciturn, one-eyed Field Marshal Wavell mastered desert fighting under the late great Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, horse-cavalry victor of the 1917-18 Palestine campaign; as commander in chief in the Middle East, Wavell smashed Graziani's Italian army during the 1940 North African campaign; after suffering major reverses in Greece and Crete, he was transferred to India (1941), where he organized the defense against the Japanese invasion threat. A soldier's soldier, he once said that the combat infantryman, should combine the arts of "a successful poacher, at cat-burglar and a gunman."

Died. W. W. Yen (Yen Hunching), 73, Chinese elder statesman and onetime Prime Minister (1924-26) of the Republic of China; in Shanghai. After the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty by Sun Yat-sen in 1911, frail, U.S.-educated Dr. Yen served as a diplomat to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the U.S., the U.S.S.R. He came out of retirement last year to head an unofficial four-man mission to Peking which tried unsuccessfully to make peace with the Communists.

Died. Benjamin Franklin Stapleton, 80, five times mayor of Denver (1923-47, with a four-year lapse from 1931 to 1935) and Colorado Democratic bigwig; of a heart attack; in Denver.

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