Milestones

MARRIED. Hamilton Jordan, 37, Chief of Staff to President Jimmy Carter and now a visiting fellow at Emory University in Atlanta; and Dorothy Henry, 25, a graduate student in nursing at Emory; he for the second time, she for the first; in Allentown, Pa., Henry's home town.

DIED. Jerry Wurf, 62, maverick president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Wurf became president of A.F.S.C.M.E. in 1964 and, through aggressive organizing and bargaining over the next 17 years, built it into the nation's largest public employees union. Wurf helped found the Congress of Racial Equality during the 1960s and was among the key strategists for Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr.

DIED. Thomas Corcoran, 80, savvy Washington lawyer and lobbyist who helped shape Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal; of a pulmonary blood clot; in Washington, D.C. Corcoran, who had once served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, became an influential member of F.D.R.'s brain trust. Nicknamed "Tommy the Cork" by Roosevelt, Corcoran served as a presidential speechwriter and liaison with Congress, and helped write the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. He was one of Roosevelt's key aides in the Chief Executive's losing battle in 1937 to add six more Justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Corcoran went into private law practice in 1941 and, using his contacts made in Congress and federal agencies, successfully represented major businesses and defense contractors. Periodically accused of influence-peddling, he once remarked, "Every time I wag my ass on the Hill, someone reads cosmic importance into it."

DIED. John Kieran, 89, naturalist author and erudite answer man on the popular radio and television show Information Please; in Rockport, Mass.

DEATH REVEALED. Hans Krebs, 81, 1953 Nobel co-prizewinning biochemist who discovered the ways in which food is turned into energy; on Nov. 22; in Oxford, England. Born in Germany, Krebs was a researcher in Berlin in 1932 when he discovered the urea cycle, a biochemical process in which urea, the product of metabolized protein, is formed in the liver. Four years later, after fleeing to England from Nazi Germany, he discovered the citric acid cycle--later named the Krebs cycle--in which organisms convert carbon compounds into carbon dioxide. In the late 1950s, he discovered the glyoxylate cycle, in which fats are used as carbon sources for cell growth. Krebs, a naturalized British citizen, was knighted in 1958.

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