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Died. John Vivian Truman, 79, Harry's younger brother, another outspoken, poker-playing Missourian, who in 1948 became district director of the Federal Housing Administration in western Missouri, refusing any higher position after Harry's election ("I have no danged reason to go to Washington"); after a long illness; in Grandview, Mo.
Died. Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, 87, longtime dean of Barnard College (1911-47), formidable though warmly admired teacher ("It's fun to use your mind"), champion of women's rights and supranationalism, who called students by their last names and disapproved of coed schooling, nevertheless allowed smoking and introduced courses in sex hygiene; the U.S.'s only woman delegate at the 1945 founding of the U.N.; of a heart attack; in Centerville, Mass.