Monday, Jun. 28, 1954
Died. Joseph Rider Farrington. 56, since 1942 Hawaii's delegate to Congress and chief proponent of Hawaiian statehood, president and publisher of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin; of a heart attack; in Washington.
Died. Margaret Seligman Lewisohn, 59, educational leader; in an automobile crash (half an hour after Adlai Stevenson, whom she had given a lift, had left the car); near Shenandoah, N.Y. A trustee of Vassar and one of the founders of Bennington College, wealthy Margaret Lewisohn, was chairman of the board of trustees of the Public Education Association.
Died. Robert N. (for Newton) Denham, 68, onetime (1947-50) general counsel of the NLRB, whose ouster in 1950 climaxed a running three-year battle between Republican Denham and President Truman over the interpretation and jurisdiction of the Taft-Hartley Act; of a heart attack; in St. Louis.
Died. Dr. E. E. (for Edison Ellsworth) Oberholtzer, 72, one of the founders (1934) and first full-time president (1945-50) of the University of Houston, second largest (total enrollment: 13,361) university in the state (first: Texas U.); after long illness; in Houston.
Died. William Ewert Berry, first Viscount Camrose, 74, editor in chief and chairman of the Daily Telegraph, largest of Britain's prestige dailies; of a heart attack; in Southampton, England. Welshman Berry and his brother, now Viscount Kemsley, built the world's largest one-family publishing empire (32 newspapers and 74 magazines).
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