Friday, Aug. 11, 1961
Married. Del E. Webb, 62, hustling construction king who shares ownership of the New York Yankees with Sportsman Dan Topping; and Toni Ince, 40, former Los Angeles millinery buyer; both for the second time; in Reno.
Died. Nicola Cardinal Canali, 87, stern administrator of the minuscule (1/6 sq. mi.) Vatican City and of the church's tribunal for indulgences; of pneumonia; in his Vatican apartment. An Italian nobleman as well as a prince of the church, Cardinal Canali in 1958 mounted the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica to crown the present, peasant-born Pontiff.
Died. Domenico Cardinal Tardini, 73, jovial, sharp-witted intimate of the last three Popes and since 1958 Vatican secretary of state, a post combining the functions of premier and foreign minister; after recurrence of a heart ailment; in his Vatican apartment.
Died. Dr. Norman Jolliffe, 59, crusading nutritionist who linked the U.S.'s high coronary death rate with its high-fat diet, made the world cholesterol-conscious with scores of monographs, weight-reducing clinics and diet-watching "Anti-Coronary Clubs"; from complications of diabetes; in New York City, where he was named the first Bureau of Nutrition director in 1949, continued to serve until last week although blind and restricted to a wheel chair since 1959.
Died. General Randolph McCall Pate, 63, softspoken, hard-driving logistics expert who commanded the Marine Corps from 1956 to 1960; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. A World War I Army private who entered the Marines from Virginia Military Institute in 1921, Pate directed supply operations at Guadalcanal, did staff work on the Iwo Jima and Okinawa invasions, and assumed his only combat command--the 1st Marine Division--in the last months of the Korean war.
Died. Zoltan Tildy, 72, former Calvinist clergyman and last freely elected president of Hungary (1946-48) who, after years under Red house arrest, served briefly as Minister of State during the 1956 Hungarian revolt and for that went to prison until 1959; in Hungary.
Died. Sir Sidney George Holland, 67, ex-Prime Minister of New Zealand, forceful, fast-talking proponent of free enterprise in a welfare state whose 1949 election ended 14 years of uninterrupted Labor rule; after a long illness, which forced his retirement in 1957; in Wellington.
Died. Jesse C. Harper, 77, trail-blazing former Notre Dame Football coach, whose 1913 team, led by Knute Rockne, broke football open by routing Army 35-13 with the game's first all-out passing attack; near Ashland, Kansas.
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