Died. Dr. Phil Edwards, 64, physician and Canadian Medal-winning runner at three Olympics; of a heart attack; in Montreal. Edwards starred in track at New York University, later became an authority on tropical and chest diseases. At the 1936 Olympics in Munich, he and other black athletes, including Jesse Owens, debunked the Nazi theory of Aryan superiority.
Died. Winston Prouty, 65, maverick Republican Senator from Vermont; of cancer; in Boston. A flinty former smalltown mayor, Prouty served for eight years as Vermont's only Congressman before his election to the Senate in 1958. He...
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