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Died. Rembert Rudolph Wurlitzer, 59, violin expert and a grandson of the founder of Chicago's Wurlitzer Co. (pianos, organs, jukeboxes), who bowed out of the family firm in 1949 to found Manhattan's Rembert Wurlitzer Co., which has bought, sold, authenticated or restored more than half the world's 600 known Stradivariuses, supplied instruments to Kreisler, Oistrakh and Stern; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. John Wellborn Root, 76, Chicago architect, senior partner of Holabird & Root, son and namesake of the co-designer of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, who himself changed the city's skyline in the '20s and '30s with the Palmer House, the Daily News and Palmolive buildings, pioneered in the use of glass-curtain walls with Milwaukee's A. O. Smith engineering building, which antedated Manhattan's celebrated Lever House by 25 years; of pneumonia; in North Falmouth, Mass.
Died. Samuel Sorenson Adams, 84, Danish-born founder (in 1909) and president of S. S. Adams Co. of Neptune, N.J., world's largest makers of sneezing powder, hidden buzzers, rubber lizards, squirting boutonnieres and other boffs, all of which he delighted in trying out on friends, relatives and casual acquaintances; of a heart attack; in, Asbury Park, N.J.
Died. Walter Francis Dillingham, 88, Hawaii's premier citizen, lord of a $150 million empire; of a heart attack; in Honolulu (see THE NATION).
Died. Admiral William Harrison Standley, 90, chief of U.S. naval operations from 1933 to 1937, wartime Ambassador to the Soviet Union, where he kept lend-lease flowing while pressing Stalin to tell the Russian people about U.S. efforts on their behalf, grew so disgusted that after the war he campaigned against the Communists with such fervor that in 1959 he bitterly protested when San Diego used a red Christmas star atop a civic center; of pneumonia; in San Diego.