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Died. Walter Brown, 59, longtime owner of the Boston Garden, Boston Bruins hockey team and Boston Celtics basketball team, who inherited control of the Garden upon the death of his father in 1937, made it pay for the first time by introducing the Ice Capades and the rodeo, put pro basketball across by buying the sputtering Celtics with his profits and helping guide them to seven championships in the last eight years; of a heart attack; in Hyannis, Mass.
Died. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 74, boss of the U.S. Communist Party since 1961; of a blood clot in the lung artery; in Moscow (see THE WORLD).
Died. Admiral Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu, 75, French military hero and Roman Catholic priest, who forsook the cloth to fight with De Gaulle in World War II, later became French High Commissioner to Indo-China, a post in which he so relentlessly pressed the fight against Communist guerrillas, scorning all talk of negotiation in Paris, that he was recalled in 1947, whereupon he quit public life in disgust and returned to his monk's habit; of a heart attack; in a monastery near Brest, France.
Died. William Geer, 88, inventor of new uses for rubber, a onetime B.F. Goodrich research vice president who retired to work on his own in 1925, at one time or another held 40 patents, among them the first successful aircraft deicer, thick strips of pulsating rubber that fitted over the leading edge of the wings and shook off storm-cloud ice as quickly as it formed, a device that after 30 years is still used on many prop-driven aircraft, but not on the big jets; after a long illness; in Ithaca, N.Y.
Died. Checkers, 12, Dick and Pat Nixon's black and white cocker spaniel, who at the age of three months got the most publicity of any dog since Fala when her master went on nationwide TV during the 1952 election campaign, explained that she was the only campaign gift (a fund of $18,000 was in question) that he had kept for his personal use; in Manhattan.