Milestones: May 26, 1961

Died. Thurman A. Whiteside, 50, the wealthy, wheeling-dealing Florida lawyer acquitted last fall of conspiring with ex-Federal Communications Commissioner Richard A. Mack to rig a Miami television channel award; by his own hand (a gunshot wound); in Miami.

Died. Ralf Torngren, 62, Finland's Foreign Minister since 1959, a mild-mannered peacemaker who, as Premier for five months in 1954 and Foreign Minister under two other governments, helped his nation preserve its precarious neutrality; of a heart attack; in Turku, Finland.

Died. John Temple Graves II, 69, writer and self-proclaimed professional Southerner, whose syndicated newspaper...

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