Died. Albert DeSalvo, 42, confessed “Boston Strangler”; of multiple stab wounds; at Walpole State Prison in Massachusetts. DeSalvo was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1967 for armed robbery, assault, and sex offenses against four women. Although he admitted during his trial to the strangling of 13 women between 1962 and 1964, he was never charged because of a lack of supporting evidence; later he recanted. Stabbed 16 times by an as yet unidentified slayer, DeSalvo is the fifth Walpole inmate to be murdered this year.
Died. Laurence Harvey, 45, veteran of more than 60 films, who first won fame in America as Joe Lampton, the ambitious cad in Room at the Top (1958); of cancer; in London. Harvey played handsome, heartless lady-killers in such hits as Butterfield 8 and Darling, and was the brainwashed political assassin of The Manchurian Candidate.
Died. Fred Apostoli, 59, “the fighting bellhop” of San Francisco who became an amateur boxer while working as a hotel elevator boy and won the world middleweight championship in November 1938; of a heart attack; in San Francisco.
Died. Dr. Arthur C. Logan, 64, civil rights leader in the National Urban League and a former director of New York City’s Haryou-Act, a forerunner of national poverty programs; in a fall from a viaduct; in Manhattan. One of the first black graduates of Columbia University’s medical school, Logan was physician to both the late Rev. Martin Luther King and Duke Ellington.
Died. Charles Evans Whittaker, 72, a former Supreme Court Justice; of a ruptured aorta; in Kansas City, Mo. A high school dropout who returned to school to study law, Whittaker rose to prominence as a Missouri trial lawyer and was appointed to the high court by Eisenhower in 1957. A judicial conservative, Whittaker consistently held claims of individual liberty to be outweighed by the needs of government, cast the deciding vote in 40 cases that ruled against an extension of civil rights and upheld actions against the Communist Party and alleged members. He resigned from the court in 1962 on doctor’s orders.
Died. Constance Talmadge, 73, Brooklyn-born comedienne of the silent film era best known for her roles in Polly of the Follies and Her Sister from Paris; after a long illness; in Los Angeles.
Died. David Ben-Gurion, 87, a founder and the first Prime Minister of the state of Israel (see THE WORLD).
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