Died. William Francis McHale Jr., 42. TIME-LIFE bureau chief in Rome; in the crash of a private jetliner that also killed Italian Industrialist Enrico Mattei; near Milan, Italy (see WORLD BUSINESS). A deft and imperturbable New Yorker. Bill McHale served four years with the Coast Guard during World War II, studied at Harvard Business School, and entered journalism as a business writer for Barron's Weekly; he joined TIME in 1949, was a writer for two years and then became a correspondent serving successively in Washington, London and Beirut before going to Rome.
Died. Hugh Fulton, 54, dogged chief counsel for Harry S. Truman's World War II watchdog committee on graft in defense contracts, a close Truman friend and speechwriter in the 1944 vice-presidential campaign, after which he returned to private practice; of a stroke; in Manhattan.
Died. Louise Beavers, 60, Ohio-born cinemactress, stereotype of a jolly Southern mammy as the screen's Aunt Delilah and TV's Beulah, though she neither liked nor knew how to make flapjacks; of diabetes; in Hollywood, Calif.
Died. Lieut. General Frank William Milburn, 70, a husky West Pointer who won three Silver Stars for front-line bravery as XXI Corps commander in Europe and I Corps commander in Korea, retired in 1952 to become athletic director of Montana State University, in 1955 sat on the ten-man committee that wrote the new soldiers' code of conduct designed to guide captured U.S. soldiers; of emphysema; in Missoula, Mont.
Died. Dr. Clifford Grosselle Grulee, 82, a founder and honorary president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, pioneer of the medical specialty of treating infants apart from adults, a firm advocate of breast rather than bottle feeding; of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill.
Died. Dr. Henry Drury Hatfield, 87, onetime (1913-17) West Virginia Republican Governor and U.S. Senator (1928-34), a talented bone surgeon and cousin of the last Hatfield to feud with a McCoy, whose term in the Senate was marked by sharp volleys at F.D.R.'s New Deal Administration as a "brain trust endeavoring to force socialism upon the American people under the guise of industrial democracy"; in Huntington, W. Va.
Died. Frank Desiderio, 88, a strapping Italian immigrant to the U.S. in 1904 who literally rose from rags, which he collected witn a pushcart in Newark, N.J,. to riches by converting the contents of other people's wastebaskets into the $50 million Whippany Paper Board Co., rolling out 1,800 tons of paperboard daily; of a stroke; in Orange, N.J.