Friday, Sep. 22, 1961
Died. Count Wolfgang Berghe von Trips, 33, last heir to a German title who forsook his Rhineland castle for the perils of sports-car racing; in a Grand Prix crack-up that killed 15 spectators, hospitalized another two dozen; in Monza, Italy (see SPORT).
Died. The Hon. Sir David Bowes-Lyon, 59, look-alike younger brother of Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, a Scottish-descended* investment banker who ran Britain's World War II Political Warfare Mission to the U.S.; of a heart attack; at Birkhall, Scotland.
Died. Ulrich Haberland, 60, dynamic boss of West Germany's giant Farben-fabriken Bayer, a Lutheran clergyman's son and ex-Nazi Party member who in 1951 took control of the largest chunk of the Occupation-decentralized I.G. Farben chemical empire, by last year had boosted the concern to a gross of $786 million in 133 countries; of a heart attack; in Eifel Mts., West Germany.
Died. Overton Brooks, 63, longtime (24 years) Democratic Congressman from Louisiana, a diligent booster of the military reserves and since 1959 chairman of the House Space Committee; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md.
Died. Nathan Straus, 72, civic-minded scion of a New York mercantile clan which built its fortunes on Macy's and Abraham & Straus, a sometime journalist (Puck, the old New York Globe) and first administrator (1937-42) of the U.S. Housing Authority; in Massapequa, N.Y.
Died. Leo Carrillo, 81, lighthearted Latin badman of Viva Villa, The Gay Desperado and a score of other Hollywood mellers, the land-rich scion of a long line of California Spanish dons (including an early Governor) who became an actor by choice, not necessity, was credited with persuading Fellow Vaudevillian Will Rogers to spice his previously silent lasso routine with Oklahoma patter; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif.
Died. Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, first Baron of Peaslake, 89, longtime wheelhorse of Britain's Labor Party, who, as Secretary of State for India, played a major role in the negotiations that ended the British raj; in London. A well-heeled, cause-addicted Etonian, Lord Pethick-Lawrence first won the public eye by adopting both his wife's name (Pethick) and her cause (female suffrage), went to jail and technically bankrupt as a result, scored his most memorable political victory in 1923 when he became M.P. for West Leicester by defeating the Liberal candidate, Winston Churchill.
* Family seat: ancient Glamis Castle, where, according to legend, Scotland's King Duncan was done in by the ambitious Macbeth.
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