The 1960s: Media: Deaths

THE 1960s: MEDIA: DEATHS

Franklin P. Adams, 78, newspaper columnist, in New York City on 23 February 1960.

Grade Allen, 58, actor and comedienne, in Hollywood, California, on 27 August 1964.

Peter Arno, 64, cartoonist, in Port Chester, New York, on 22 February 1968.

William Calhoun Baggs, 48, editor of the Miami News, in Miami, Florida, on 7 January 1969.

Hugh Baillie, 75, newspaperman, in La Jolla, California, on 1 March 1966.

Charles Bickford, 78, actor, in Hollywood, California, on 9 November 1967.

John Mason Brown, 68, theater critic for the Saturday Review of Literature, in New York City on 16 March 1969.

Whittaker Chambers, 60, journalist and spy, in Westminster, Maryland, on 9 July 1961.

Dickie Chappelle, 47, war correspondent and photographer, in South Vietnam on 4 November 1965.

Sir William Connor, 57, British newspaper columnist, in London, England, on 6 April 1967.

Thomas Costain, 80, newspaper columnist and novelist, in New York City on 8 October 1965.

Russel Crouse, 73, playwright and magazine editor, in New York City on 3 April 1966.

Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, 85, political cartoonist, in Des Moines, Iowa, on 12 February 1962.

Jane Darwell, 87, movie and television actress, in Holly-wood, California, on 13 August 1967.

Rudolph Dirks, 91, creator of The Katzenjammer Kids, in New York City on 20 April 1968.

Orvil E. Dryfoos, 50, publisher of The New York Times, in New York City on 25 May 1963.

Allen Balcom Du Mont, 64, technical innovator of the television, in New York City on 15 November 1965.

Edward Duffy, 63, editorial cartoonist, in New York City on 13 September 1962.

Max Eastman, 86, magazine editor and author, in Bridgetown, Barbados, on 25 March 1969.

Stuart Erwin, 64, television actor, in Beverly Hills, California, on 21 December 1967.

Negley Farson, 70, newspaper correspondent, in Devon, England, on 13 December 1960.

Marshall Field, Jr., 49, newspaper magnate and editor and publisher of the Chicago Daily News, in Chicago on 18 September 1965.

Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, 78, editorial cartoonist for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, in Saint Louis on 18 May 1969.

Raoul Herbert Fleischmann, 83, cofounder and publisher of The New Yorker, in New York City on 11 May 1969.

Gene Fowler, 70, newspaperman and biographer, in Los Angeles on 2 July 1960.

William Goetz, 66, film producer and cofounder of 20th Century-Fox, in Holmby Hills, California, on 15 August 1969.

Harold Lincoln Gray, 74, creator of "Little Orphan Annie," in La Jolla, California, on 9 May 1968.

James A. Hagarty, 85, newspaperman, in New York City on 24 November 1961.

Jimmy Hatlo, 65, cartoonist of "They'll Do It Every Time," in Carmel, California, on 1 December 1963.

George D. Hay, 72, originator of the Grand Ole Opry on radio, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on 9 May 1968.

Ben Hecht, 70, journalist, author, and screenwriter in New York City on 18 April 1964.

Marguerite Higgins, 45, newspaper reporter, in Washington, D.C., on 3 January 1966.

Hedda Hopper, 75, gossip columnist, in Hollywood, California, on 1 February 1966.

Edward Britt ("Ted") Husing, 60, radio sports announcer, in Pasadena, California, on 10 August 1962.

H. V. Kaltenborn, 86, radio and television news commentator, in New York City on 14 June 1965.

Dorothy Mae Kilgallen, 52, newspaper columnist and radio and television personality, in New York City on 8 November 1965.

Frank King, 86, cartoonist of Gasoline Alley strip, in Winter Park, Florida, on 24 June 1969.

William Monroe Kiplinger, 76, magazine and newsletter owner, in Bethesda, Maryland, on 6 August 1967.

Ernie Kovacs, 42, television and movie comedian, in Los Angeles on 13 January 1962.

Edwin Aloysius Lahey, 67, newspaper reporter, in Washington, D.C., on 17 July 1969.

Fulton Lewis, Jr., 63, radio commentator, in Washington, D.C., on 21 August 1966.

Henry Robinson Luce, 68, founder of Time publishing empire, in Phoenix, Arizona, on 28 February 1967.

Kingsley Martin, 71, editor of the New Statesman (U.K.), in Cairo, Egypt, on 16 February 1969.

Edward R. Murrow, 57, television and radio newsman, in New York City on 23 April 1965.

Kathleen Norris, 85, novelist and journalist, in San Francisco, California, on 18 January 1966.

Graham Creighton Patterson, 87, publisher of Farm Journal, in Evanston, Illinois, on 23 November 1969.

Drew Pearson, 71, newspaper reporter and columnist, in Washington, D.C., on 1 September 1969.

Frederick S. Pearson, 47, magazine editor and humorist, in New York City on 17 January 1960.

Westbrook Pegler, 74, newspaper columnist, in Tucson, Arizona, on 24 June 1969.

George Putnam, 88, newspaper editor, in Salem, Oregon, on 18 August 1961.

Stanley B. Resor, 83, advertising executive, in New York City on 29 October 1962.

Quentin Reynolds, 62, war correspondent, at Travis Air Force Base, California, on 17 March 1965.

Robert Ruark, 49, newspaper columnist, in London on 1 July 1965.

John Shubert, 53, part owner of the Shubert theater chain, in Florida on 17 November 1962.

Francis Striker, 58, radio scriptwriter and creator of The Lone Ranger, in Buffalo, New York, on 4 September 1962.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger, 77, publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961, in New York City on 11 December 1968.

Raymond Swing, 81, radio commentator, in Washington, D.C., on 22 December 1968.

James Thurber, 66, humorist and cartoonist, in New York City on 2 November 1961.

Clarence George Wellington, former editor of the Kansas City Star, on 20 January 1960.

Walter Yust, 65, editor in chief of Encyclopaedia Britannica from 1938 to 1960, in Evanston, Illinois, on 29 February 1960.