Died. Louis E. Lomax, 47, black newsman (Chicago's American) and author (The Negro Revolt, When the Word Is Given) known for his evenhanded approach to race, who came down hard on black extremists and white segregationists; in an auto crash; near Santa Rosa, N. Mex.

Died. Sir John Barbirolli, 70, internationally famed conductor; of heart disease; in London. Barbirolli was only 37 when he was called upon to step into the retiring Arturo Toscanini's shoes at the New York Philharmonic; it was an impossible task, and he returned to England in 1943 to shape Manchester's venerable but war-ravaged Halle Orchestra into one of Europe's best.

Died. Jimmy Conzelman, 72, pianist, actor, author, raconteur, but most of all one of pro football's earliest and best-loved coaches, who stunned the sports world by guiding the underdog Cardinals, then of Chicago, to a championship in 1947, the first and only time they have hit the jackpot during 36 years in the National Football League; in St. Louis.

Died. George Szell, 73, conductor of Cleveland's orchestra (see Music).

Died. Dan Able Kimball, 74, an early aviator and Secretary of the Navy from 1951 to 1953, but best known as the executive who turned Aerojet-General Corp. from a tiny General Tire subsidiary into an aerospace giant (engines, rockets, bomb fuses); in Washington, D.C. Less than two days after Kimball's death, his wife Doris, 69, who wrote a syndicated Washington column under her maiden name of Doris Fleeson, died of a stroke.

Died. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, 81, dictator of Portugal for 40 years (see THE WORLD).

Died. Helen Rogers Reid, 87, president, then chairman of the board (1947-55) of the now-defunct New York Herald Tribune; in Manhattan. Wife of the Trib's Editor-President Ogden Reid, she made her name on the business side as a crack ad saleswoman who had, as one colleague put it, "the persistence of gravity." She went to work in 1918, was responsible for doubling linage by 1923, and after that headed the ad department until 1947, when she assumed command at the death of her husband. In politics, she continued the Trib's tradition of moderate Republicanism; as a journalist she campaigned to reach U.S. women with expanded news of society, gardening, child and husband care, even an experimental kitchen to devise and test recipes. After retiring in 1955, she continued as a board member until 1958, when control was sold to John Hay Whitney.

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