Friday, Aug. 03, 1962
Born. To Princess Astrid, 30, comely daughter of Norway's King Olav V, and her commoner husband Johan Martin Ferner, 35, a prosperous Oslo clothier: their first child, a daughter; in Oslo.
Died. Matthew Cvetic, 53, who from 1941 to 1950 led a double life as Communist conspirator and FBI counterspy; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Losing friends and distressing his family, Cvetic organized cells in Western Pennsylvania, attended more than 2,000 party meetings and joined some 75 Communist-front groups. His testimony later led to the Smith Act conviction of Steve Nelson, union leader and top Communist organizer in Pittsburgh, as well as to a career as author and movie subject (I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.).
Died. Dr. Conrad Arnold Elvehjem, 61, president for six years of the University of Wisconsin and biochemist whose identification of nicotinic acid as a new vitamin (now called niacin) led directly to the cure of pellagra, and who won medicine's Lasker Award in 1952; of a heart attack; in Madison.
Died. Henry Clarence Dworshak, 67, strapping, white-shocked U.S. Republican Senator from Idaho, a confirmed believer in the theory that "government is best where government is least," whose eight years in the House and 15 years in the Senate were marked by nays against Lend-Lease, the Selective Service Act, rural electrification, most recently against President Kennedy's "socialistic spending" at home and abroad; of a heart attack; in Washington.
Died. James Howard ("Dutch") Kindelberger, 67, bluff, salty-tongued pioneer of U.S. aviation, who took the presidency of an embryonic North American Aviation in 1935, built it into an industrial giant with sales of $1.2 billion and a work force of 80,000; of congestive heart failure; in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Operating on the philosophy that "nobody ever pulled a rabbit out of a hat without carefully putting one there in the first place," Dutch Kindelberger organized his industry's first mass-production assembly line, during World War II cranked out a total of 25,486 P-51 fighters and B-25 bombers. In later years, Kindelberger switched to the space race, regrouping his company into six divisions that pulled out, among other rabbits, the X-15 rocket plane, a $2 billion contract to build the Apollo moonship, hundreds of Thor and Atlas missile engines.
Died. Victor Moore, 86, chubby, puckish actor, whose best-remembered role was Alexander Throttlebottom, the quavering-voiced ineffectual U.S. Vice President in George Gershwin's 1931 musical Of Thee I Sing; of a heart attack; in East Islip, L.I.
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