Monday, Oct. 16, 1950

Divorced. Alvin C. Eurich, 48, president of New York's big, growing, two-year-old State University (TIME, Sept. 11); by Alice Albert Eurich, fortyish; after 24 years of marriage, no children; in Reno.

Died. Clifton Alexander Woodrum, 63, longtime (1923-45) U.S. Representative from Virginia; of a heart ailment; in Washington. Though he went along with most of the New Deal, Woodrum was a leader of the Democratic Party's conservative wing, spoke up sternly now & then against freehanded Administration spending. In 1939 Washington newsmen voted him one of the ten ablest Representatives.

Died. Dudley Field Malone, 68, who made news all through the '20s as a big-time lawyer in Manhattan and Paris, a friend of celebrities, a mixer-in-politics and a taker-up-of-causes (feminism, persecuted Reds, Tennessee Darwinian John T. Scopes); of a heart ailment; in Culver City, Calif. Seldom in the limelight since the early '30s, Malone became a Hollywood lawyer, played Winston Churchill in the 1943 movie Mission to Moscow ("All lawyers and politicians are actors at heart").

Died. Mrs. Frederick Ambrose Clark, seventyish, stable owner (Algasir, Tea-Maker), wife of the wealthy dean of New York State's horsy set, aunt of the polo-playing Bostwick brothers; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Willis Haviland Carrier, 73, "founder of the air-conditioning industry," first president (1915-31) of Carrier Corp., later board chairman; in Manhattan. Mechanical Engineer Carrier's "Rational Psychometric Formulae" (1911) provided a scientific basis for designing air-conditioning equipment, took the industry out of its cut-and-try infancy.

Died. Curtis Boyd Johnson, 74, since 1916 publisher and principal owner of the Charlotte Observer, which he made the biggest daily (circ. 135,000) in the Carolinas; in Charlotte, N.C.

Died. Edward Childs Carpenter, 77, playwright and novelist, author of such popular comedies of incident as 1915's The Cinderella Man, 1920's Bab, 1928's The Bachelor Father; in Torrington, Conn.

Died. Harry Lowe Crosby, 79, father of Crooner Bing and Bandleader Bob; in North Hollywood, Calif.

Died. John Francis ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald, 87, oldtime "Young Napoleon" of Boston ward politics whose shrewd common touch and honeyed rendition of Sweet Adeline made him one of Boston's most influential Irish Democrats, got him elected U.S. Representative for three terms (1895-1901), mayor for two (1906-07; 1910-14); in Boston.

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