Died. Elliot Ettelson Cohen. 60, editor of the monthly Commentary since its founding in 1945; by suffocation (a plastic bag over his head); in Manhattan. Though he addressed his magazine to a Jewish audience and filled it with Jewish lore and scholarship, Cohen included political and cultural articles of such vitality and penetration that he won a broad, loyal readership.
Died. Ludlow Griscom, 68, a leading U.S. field ornithologist who used to go bird watching with Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II; after long illness; in Cambridge. Mass.
Died. Charles Alien Ward, 72, two-fisted Minnesota advertising executive (president of St. Paul's Brown...
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