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Died. Joe E. (for Evan) Brown, 80, the comedian with the infinite grin; after a long illness; in Los Angeles. When he was ten Brown broke into show business as a circus acrobat in Ohio. He later played in vaudeville, burlesque and on Broadway, and then starred in such Hollywood hits as The Tenderfoot (1932) and Elmer the Great (1933). During World War II (in which a son, Captain Don E. Brown, was killed in an Army plane crash), Joe won the Bronze Star for traveling more than 200,000 miles−at his own expense−to entertain American G.I.s.
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Died. Otto Klemperer, 88, German conductor and composer; in Zurich. Klemperer began conducting at the age of 20 and was appointed director of the Kroll Opera when he was 42. Plagued through much of his life by paralysis resulting from brain surgery, Klemperer was renowned (and often reviled) for his solemn, intellectual approach to the works of such romantic composers as Beethoven and Bruckner