Monday, Nov. 25, 1946
Died. Martin T. Manton, 66, onetime senior judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; of a heart ailment; in Fayetteville, N.Y. In a trial unprecedented in the annals of the federal judiciary, he was convicted of "selling justice" to build his private fortune, served 19 months in Lewisburg, Pa.'s Northeastern Federal Penitentiary.
Died. Camillo Cardinal Caccia Dominioni, 69, friend and protege of Pope Pius XI, who was named a Cardinal in 1935, served the Vatican as chamberlain-in-chief, majordomo and dean of the Order of Deacons; of a heart ailment; in Rome.
Died. Manuel de Falla, 69, famed Spanish composer, who drew from the folk songs and rhythms of his native land inspiration for his ballets (The Three-Cornered Hat, Love, the Sorcerer), whose name has become a synonym for contemporary Spanish music and whose works are a part of the permanent repertory of the world's top musicians; after long illness; in Alta Gracia, Argentina.
Died. Daniel Florence ("Judge Dan") Cohalan, 79, Tammany Hall's longtime political strategist and onetime Grand Sachem, chief adviser to Bosses Charles F. Murphy and John F. Curry in the heyday of brass-spittoon politics, noisy spokesman of New York City's Irish, former Justice of the State Supreme Court (1911-24); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan.
Died. Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, 85, revered Indian scholar and Nationalist, champion of orthodox Hinduism; in New Delhi. A former president of India's Congress Party, longtime friend of Mohandas K. Gandhi, he helped to found and was the guiding spirit of famed Benares Hindu University, which has become the center of the ancient Vedic (Hindu) culture.
Died. Cornelia T. Crosby, 93, who as a sickly girl was advised to "take huge doses of outdoors" for her health, became a six-foot Maine woods' guide and first woman to hold a Maine guide license; in Lewiston, Me. She modeled the first short-skirt sports costume for women (seven inches from the ground) at the National Sportsman Show of 1895, was credited with coining the phrase "Playground of the Nation" for her native state, was believed to have caught more fish with a fly than any other woman.
Died. May Sinclair, 93, British author (The Divine Fire, Mary Olivier) and feminist, one of the first and most penetrating novelists of the early "stream of consciousness" school, who a generation ago received wide acclaim, in both the U.S. and Britain; after long illness; in Aylesbury, England.
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