Milestones: Dec. 29, 1967

Died. Louis Washkansky, 55, recipient of the world's first transplanted human heart; in Cape Town, South Africa (see MEDICINE).

Died. Harold Holt, 59, Prime Minister of Australia (see THE WORLD).

Died. Stuart Erwin, 64, Hollywood and TV's most lovable boob; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills. "Give me a nice goofy part any time," said Stu, and directors obliged with a lifetime of country bumpkins, soup-spilling waiters, and every other kind of all-American dope; critics applauded his rustic milkman in 1940's Our Town, his whimsical postman in 1942's Mr. Sycamore and, most recently, his...

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