Friday, Oct. 30, 1964
Married. Jean Ronald Getty, 34, Jean Paul's son, who runs the German subsidiary (Veedol) of daddy's Tidewater Oil Co.; and Karin Seibl, 21, daughter of a German appliance wholesaler; in Hamburg.
Died. William Jackson, 59, librarian of Harvard's famed rare-book Houghton Library, known to his colleagues as "Our Grand Acquisitor," who trebled the library's collection of historical and literary documents and tracked clown a copy of the first book printed on each of the seven continents; of a heart attack; in Boston.
Died. Marshal Sergei Biryuzov, 60, Chief of the General Staff and third in command of the Soviet Army, one of Russia's top missile experts; in a plane crash that killed six other high-ranking officers; near Belgrade, where they were to celebrate the anniversary of Yugoslavia's liberation from the Nazis.
Died. James P. Mitchell, 63, Eisenhower's Secretary of Labor, who won union applause by opposing right-to-work laws and boosting the minimum wage to $1 an hour, but had less success with the voters in New Jersey, losing the 1961 race for Governor to Democrat Richard Hughes; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Frank Luther Mott, 78, dean of Missouri's School of Journalism from 1942 to 1951, historian of the U.S. press (A History of American Magazines; American Journalism, 1690-1950), author of an entertaining study of the country's alltime bestselling books (Golden Multitudes); in Columbia, Mo.
Died. Charles Seabrook, 83, pioneer in frozen foods, a New Jersey farmer who in 1930 packed lima beans in dry ice, after finding that they thawed fresh as ever, teamed up with Seafood Freezer Clarence Birdseye to perfect the quick-freezing of vegetables, icing away everything from spinach to succotash under 150 labels (best known: Snow Crop, Seabrook Farms), to build a $25 million annual business; after a long illness; in Deerfield, N.J.
Died. Herbert Hoover, 90, 31st President of the U.S.; in Manhattan (see THE NATION).
Died. Herman Doehler, 92, inventor of modern die-casting, who in 1906 patented a process for injecting molten metal under pressure between the halves of a steel die that proved quicker and more precise than hand-poured sand castings, thus paving the way for mass production of all manner of products and making Doehler Die Casting Co. (later Doehler-Jarvis) the biggest in the field; of uremia; in Manhattan.
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