Friday, Feb. 16, 1962
Died. Candido Portinari, 58, painter laureate of Brazil who sought to capture his country's garish blend of poverty and promise in giant murals done with a fiery palette mixed from Brazilian earths; of a stroke following cumulative lead poisoning induced by his own pigments; in Rio de Janeiro. An Italian immigrant's son who once painted signs for mule carts, Portinari was the first South American ever given a one-man show by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and, though an avowed Communist for much of his career, accepted commissions for a portrait of former Brazilian President Janio Quadros for TIME'S cover (June 30, 1961), the monumental War and Peace panels in the U.N. General Assembly, and a series of church murals.
Died. Teodosio Clemente Cardinal de Gouveia, 72, Archbishop of Lourengo Marques in the Portuguese territory of Mozambique, a scholarly apostle of Catholic education whose elevation to the
Sacred College in 1946 made him the first cardinal in Africa; of leukemia; in Mozambique.
Died. Robert Allen Stranahan Sr., 75, bluff board chairman of Toledo's Champion Spark Plug Co. (and father of Professional Golfer Frank Stranahan), who started making spark plugs as a hobby after his graduation from Harvard in 1908, ultimately built his spare-time enterprise into a $100 million business in automotive parts and accessories; after a long illness; in Toledo.
Died. Edward C. Yellowley, 88, nemesis of Prohibition-era bootleggers, a Mississippi-born revenooer who harried the Capone mob with the aid of "The Untouchables," blazed a trail of shut speakeasies from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., but lost heart in New York, admitting that it would take a million agents to mop the metropolis dry; of a heart attack; in Chicago.
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