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Died. Clementine Paddleford, 67, food author and editor (How America Eats); of cancer; in New York. For a woman who cared not a fig about her own cooking (strictly steaks and baked beans), she had a genius for whetting the nation's appetite in her 21 years as columnist for the New York Herald Tribune and other newspapers, sniffing out succulent recipes and savoring souffles that "melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream."
Died. Ida Cox, seventyish, last of the great female blues singers of the '20s and '30s; of cancer; in Knoxville, Tenn. Ida often wailed her nasal laments (The Moanin', Groanin' Blues, Hard Times) for Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, and Louis Armstrong, whom she once recalled as "just another boy blowing a horn for the King."
Died. Sir Archibald Nye, 72, British lieutenant general and diplomat; of pulmonary edema; in London. Enlisting as a private in 1914, Nye rocketed through the ranks to become Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff in World War II, youngest ever to hold the post. Later, as High Commissioner to India from 1948 to 1952, he persuaded Nehru to remain in the Commonwealth after independence; as High Commissioner to Canada from 1952 to 1956, he strengthened trade ties between Britain and Canada.
Died. Dr. Elmer V. McCollum, 88, pioneering nutritionist who identified the first vitamin; of a kidney ailment; in Baltimore. In 1913, he separated vitamin A from butterfat and discovered its relationship to good eyesight; later he found vitamin B (which prevents beriberi) in milk sugar, in 1922 found vitamin D in cod-liver oil and determined its importance (sturdy bones and teeth)—all of which helped promote diet as a national concern and foster today's $300 million vitamin industry.