Friday, Oct. 27, 1961
Died. Louis Rwagasore, 31. Belgian-baiting Crown Prince and newly elected Premier of Urundi, southern half of the trust territory of Ruanda-Urundi, which is scheduled for independence in 1962; of an assassin's bullet; in Usumbura, Urundi.
Died. The Lord Invader (real name: Rupert Westmore Grant), 47. Trinidad-bred Calypso king, a master of ribald improvisation, whose creations included World War II's ubiquitous Rum and Coca-Cola; of complications after surgery; in a Harlem hospital.
Died. Sigurd F. Varian, 60, ex-chairman of California's Varian Associates, a one time barnstorming pilot whose distaste for blind flying led him to invent (with two partners) the klystron tube, the high-frequency heart of radar development; in a private-plane crash; between Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Died. Harry Frederick Comfort Crook-shank, 1st Viscount Crookshank, 68. rapier-tongued parliamentary leader of Britain's Conservative Party from 1951 till his elevation to the House of Lords in 1955 a 32-year House of Commons veteran whose sardonic debating style elicited from Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell the tribute: "I never knew a man who could say such outrageous things with such charm"; of cancer; in London.
Died. Werner Wilhelm Jaeger, 73-benign. German-bred Harvard classicist whose monumental studies of Aristotle and the ideals of ancient Greek culture themselves became classics: of injuries suffered in a fall: in Boston.
Died. The Most Reverend John Joseph Mitty, D.D., 77, mild-mannered but strong-minded spiritual leader who in 26 years as Archbishop of San Francisco presided over 500 major building projects and the establishment of 84 new parishes and missions; of a heart attack; in Menlo Park, Calif.
Died. Sergio Osmena. 83. second president (1944-46) of the pre-independence Philippine Commonwealth, a shrewd, patient public servant who contributed a rare note of moderation to Philippine politics for nearly 40 years; of a heart and kidney ailment; in Manila. A landowner's son of part-Chinese ancestry, Osmena began his campaign for Philippine independence after the suppression of the 1899 insurrection against U.S. rule, rose from speaker of the first Philippine Assembly to vice president of the Commonwealth, succeeded to the presidency of the Philippine government-in-exile when fiery Manuel Quezon died in 1944. returned home over the beaches of Leyte and directed the reconstruction of his nation, only to lose the 1946 presidential election to Manuel Roxas ten weeks before independence finally came.
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