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Died. Benno Moiseiwitsch, 73, Russian-born piano virtuoso in the grand, romantic style, who at 19 made his triumphant debut in London (where he decided to remain, becoming a British subject in 1937), has since been England's year-in-and-out favorite, neglecting modern composers almost completely for Schumann, Chopin and his close friend Rachmaninoff; of a heart attack; in London.
Died. R. Lawrence Oakley, 73, Wall Street reformer in the years after the 1929 crash, an earnest, unshakable broker who, as chairman of the New York Stock Exchange's 1935 nominating committee, engineered the ouster of the Exchange's complacent, do-nothing old guard, notably Exchange President Richard Whitney, who two years later was jailed for shady stock manipulations; of cancer; in Greenwich, Conn.
Died. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, 73, scourge of the bootleggers in Prohibition days as an assistant attorney general in charge of prisons, tax cases and violations of the Volstead Act, a mild-looking one-time civics teacher who left her husband in 1916 to pursue a lawyer's career, soon became famous for her devotion to the letter of the Prohibition law, earning the taunting nickname of "that Prohibition Portia"; of cancer; in Riverside, Calif.
Died. Joseph Newton Pew Jr., 76, board chairman of Sun Oil Co. since 1947 and longtime financial angel to the Republican Party, a spare, articulate innovator who in 1931 built the first gasoline pipeline from a refinery (in Marcus Hook, Pa.) to a marketing area (the Great Lakes) and later dreamed up the Sunoco "custom blending" pump which adjusts to deliver eight gasolines of varying octane content; of pneumonia; in Philadelphia. An early supporter of the New Deal, Pew angrily changed his mind in 1933 when F.D.R. tried to fix oil prices, turned to the G.O.P. with his time and money, becoming one of Pennsylvania's most powerful political voices.
Died. Amedeo Maiuri, 77, Italy's best-known archaeologist and the man responsible for the restoration of Pompeii from 1924 to 1961, who discovered the famed Campanian murals that pictured life in the once thriving city and perfected a way to cast in plaster the body imprints of the citizens buried under the ashes of Mount Vesuvius' eruption in A.D. 79; in Naples.