Monday, Jan. 28, 1974
Married. William ("Dollar Bill") Bradley, 30, reserved 6-ft. 5-in. forward for the New York Knicks basketball team, former Rhodes scholar and America's top college ballplayer during his Princeton days; and Ernestine Schlant, an associate professor of comparative literature at Montclair State College in New Jersey, who met Bradley while she was working on a film about Poetess Marianne Moore several years ago; in Palm Beach, Fla.
Died. Josef Smrkovsky, 62, liberal chairman of the Czechoslovak National Assembly during the ill-fated "Prague spring" of 1968; of cancer; in Prague. Smrkovsky entered government service following World War II. He was imprisoned from 1951 to 1955 on charges of "activities against the state," but was exonerated in 1963 and elected president of the National Assembly five years later. Smrkovsky, one of Liberal Czech leader Alexander Dubcek's key aides, publicly called for such reforms as freedom of speech, religion and press; after the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968, he fell into disfavor with party hard-liners once again and was forced into early retirement in 1970.
Died. Frederick Andrew Seaton, 64, Secretary of the Interior from 1956 to 1961, who helped win statehood for Alaska and Hawaii; after a long illness; in Minneapolis. Seaton was appointed in 1951 to fill a Nebraska Senate vacancy when Kenneth Wherry died and became a key adviser to Dwight Eisenhower during his campaign in 1952; he remained in Washington as an influential member of the White House inner circle.
Died. Harold Dunbar Cooley, 76, Democratic Congressman from North Carolina from 1934 to 1966; of emphysema; in Wilson, N.C. Cooley was chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture for 16 years and veteran of countless annual farm battles. He was the only Southern Democratic Congressman who survived a refusal to sign the "Southern Manifesto" against racial integration.
Died. Clarence E. Lovejoy, 79, author of the popular Lovejoy's College Guide, which has helped countless high school students choose a college; in Red Bank, N.J. Variously--and sometimes simultaneously--a sports reporter for the New York Times, army officer, professor and alumni secretary for his alma mater, Columbia University, Lovejoy also wrote prep-school and career and vocational-school guides. First published in 1940 with the backing of Lovejoy's college classmate, Publisher M. Lincoln Schuster, the College Guide has remained a Simon & Schuster bestseller through twelve revisions.
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