Milestones, Aug. 6, 1956

Died. Camilla Maximilian Cianfarra. 49, topflight New York Times correspondent (Rome, 1935-41 and 1946-51; Mexico City, 1942-46; Madrid since 1951). who in 1949 scored a world newsbeat on the Vatican archaeologists' claim to have found St. Peter's tomb beneath the cathedral's high altar in Rome; in the collision-sinking of the Italian liner Andrea Doria, off Nantucket (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Frederick Henry ("Derek") Curtis-Bennett, 52, pudgy, bespectacled defense counsel for some of Britain's most notorious lawbreakers, among them: Traitor William ("Lord Haw-Haw") Joyce, Multiple Murderer John Christie. Atom Spy Klaus Fuchs; of acute alcoholism, less than three months after the suicide of...

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