Died. James Pringle, 51, veteran Associated Press war photographer; of cancer; in Rome. Pringle covered the Blitz, the Allies' advance across Europe, the Korean War, the Hungarian and Algerian Revolutions, winning his colleagues' esteem for his craftsmanship and their awe for his Irish fearlessness in the face of fire. "Why, they can't hit me," he once said as bullets buzzed overhead. "After all, I carry an Irish passport."

Died. Jules Munshin, 54, basset-eyed comic actor, veteran of Hollywood and Broadway; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A seasoned vaudevillian, Munshin's hilarious antics in his first major Broadway role (a mustered-out soldier in 1946's Call Me Mister) established him as a star, and three years later he scored his greatest hit gagging it up with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly as trouble-prone sailors in the film On the Town. Always drawn back to the stage, he went on to appear in such Broadway productions as The Gay Life, Barefoot in the Park and the revival of The Front Page.

Died. Major General George Gelston, 57, commander of the Maryland National Guard troops during the 1963 and 1964 racial upheavals in Cambridge, whose cool, intelligent leadership prevented almost certain bloodshed; of heart disease; in Chicago. Gelston saw his choices as three: "You can club 'em to death, you can arrest 'em, or you can let them demonstrate--controlled and protected--and hope eventually for a peaceful situation." He chose the last course, and eventually arranged the truce that allowed him to withdraw his troops.

Died. Robert Neville, 64, foreign correspondent and former TIME bureau chief; of heart disease; in Rome. Neville had that knack of turning up wherever big news was breaking. As a New York Herald Tribune reporter, he arrived in Spain just a day before the outbreak of civil war; as a TIME staffer, he was in Warsaw the day German troops crossed the Polish border. A wartime founder of the Mediterranean edition of Stars and Stripes, he returned to TIME in 1946, heading bureaus in New Delhi, Hong Kong and Rome before retiring in 1959.

Died. Alfred Newman, 68, Academy Award-winning Hollywood composer and conductor; of emphysema; in Hollywood. "If I want to write great music," Newman once said, "I have no right being here." Perhaps true, but he was honored with eight Oscars and 45 nominations for orchestrating such films as Carousel, Camelot and The King and I; on his own he scored such hits as Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, The Robe and How the West Was Won.

All told, he scored or conducted the music for more than 300 films in his 40-year career.

Died. Joao Cafe Filho, 71, former President of Brazil, who as vice president under Getulio Vargas assumed office upon the dictator's suicide in Aug. 1954, quickly won a reputation as a fair-minded administrator, dedicated to stabilizing Brazil's chaotic one-crop (coffee) economy, only to be forced into retirement by a heart attack after 15 months in office; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro.

Died. S.Y. Agnon, 81, Israel's most honored author and only Nobel laureate; of a heart attack; in Rehovot, Israel. Born in Galicia, victim and observer of half a century of stateless limbo in Europe, Agnon wrote with the wisdom of experience in his touching chronicles of the contemporary Wandering Jew--the nameless exile returned to the European town of his youth in A Guest for the Night; Kafkaesque fables of Jews transplanted from an ancient land to modern Israel in Two Tales. A virtual unknown in the West until 1966, when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he was long a cultural hero to his countrymen, a man who understood the stateless Jew's anguish and longing for a homeland. "Man," Agnon once wrote, "is defined as a being that moves."

Died. Ralph E. Flanders, 89, former U.S. Senator from Vermont, from 1946 to 1958, and a leader in the fight against Joe McCarthy; of heart disease; in Springfield, Vt. More than once lawmakers chuckled at the homespun Flanders, who occasionally voted "yes or no--as the case may be" on Senate motions and once upbraided Ike for relaxing tariffs on imported clothespins. But there was no laughter in 1954 when he risked his career by becoming the first Republican to challenge the feared Wisconsin Senator. Charging that he belonged to "a one-man party whose name is McCarthyism," Flanders introduced the censure resolution that led to McCarthy's downfall.

Died. Dr. Peyton Rous, 90, U.S. cancer researcher and virologist, who in 1911 first proved the existence of virus-induced cancer in animals; of cancer; in Manhattan. Though dismissed as "utter nonsense" at the time, Rous' discovery of a virus-transmissible cancer (sarcoma) was eventually accepted as a most promising lead in cancer research. It also launched his career at Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute (now University), where he perfected the first technique for preserving whole blood for transfusions and opened the way for modern treatment of liver and digestive diseases. It was not until 1966, more than half a century after his momentous cancer discovery, that he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

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