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Died. Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire, 70, President Roosevelt's personal physician, surgeon general of the Navy (1938-46); of a heart attack; in Chicago. McIntire assured the public in October 1944 (just before the fourth-term election) that F.D.R. was well and hearty, insisted on his accuracy in his 1946 memoirs (White House Physician). He was challenged by Dr. Karl C. Wold, whose book (Mr. President—How Is Your Health?) argued that F.D.R. had suffered two slight strokes long before his fatal one, and by onetime White House Intimate and Democratic National Chairman Jim Farley, who said that F.D.R. was known in 1944 to be a dying man.
Died. Dexter Mason Ferry Jr., 87, Detroit philanthropist, onetime president (1925-41), board chairman (1941-59) of Ferry-Morse Seed Co., world's largest seed producer, which has developed 310 varieties of flowers, 212 of vegetables, grows them on 25,000 acres in 19 states; in Detroit.