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THE 1960s: BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY: DEATHS

Benjamin Abrams, 74, founder of Emerson Radio and Phonograph Corporation, 23 June 1967.

Avery C. Adams, 65, head of Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation (1956-1963) and Pittsburgh Steel Company (1950-1956), 11 December 1963.

Cyril Ainsworth, 71, engineer and expert on industrial and safety standards, 13 December 1964.

Frank A. D. Andrea, 77, pioneer radio manufacturer, 22 December 1965.

Elizabeth Arden, 81, founder, president, and chairman of the board of Elizabeth Arden (now owned by Eli Lilly and Company), an international organization of beauty resorts, beauty salons, and retail cosmetics, 18 October 1966.

George Arents, 85, founder of American Machine and Foundry Company and International Cigar Machinery Company, 13 December 1960.

Sewell L. Avery, 86, business executive; president (1905-1937) and chairman of the board (1937-1951) of U.S. Gypsum; in 1931 he was named chairman of Montgomery Ward and would later serve as its president, 31 October 1960.

Roger Babson, 92, stock analyst who predicted the stock-market crash of 1929, 5 March 1967.

Harold Bache, 73, president of Bache and Company, 15 March 1968.

Hugh Baillie, 75, president (1935-1955) of United Press (now United Press International), 1 March 1966.

J. Stewart Baker, 73, first president of Chase Manhattan Bank, 5 September 1966.

John W. Barnes, 62, president of his family's publishing firm, Barnes and Noble, 17 December 1964.

Arthur S. Barrows, 79, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company (1942-1946), 20 September 1963.

Bruce Barton, 80, advertising executive, who wrote the best-seller The Man Nobody Knows (1925), which pictured Jesus Christ as the world's most successful businessman; one of the founders of Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn advertising agency, 5 July 1967.

Bernard M. Baruch, 94, financier and philanthropist, 20 June 1965.

James F. Bell, 81, founder of General Mills (1928), the world's largest milling company, 7 May 1961.

Nathan J. Blumberg, 66, president (1938-1952) and chairman of the board (1952-1960) of Universal Pictures, 24 July 1960.

John Brophy, 79, one of the founders of the CIO in 1935, 19 February 1963.

Elmer Brown, 66, president of International Typographical Union, 27 February 1968.

Ralph Budd, 82, railroad executive; president of the Great Northern Railroad (1919-1932); president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (1932-1949), 2 February 1962.

Charles H. Buford, 74, president of the Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul, and Pacific Railroad (1947-1950), 17 August 1960.

Arthur H. Bunker, 68, chief of War Production Board (1941-1945); board chairman of American Metal Climax, 19 May 1964.

Orville S. Caesar, 73, president (1946-1955) and chairman (1955-1959) of Greyhound Corporation, 19 May 1965.

Harold Carlson, 66, head of Associated Press electronics laboratory (1946-1961); one of the developers of transmitting photos by wire, 11 September 1964.

Paul H. Carnahan, 61, president of National Steel Corporation since 1961, 26 December 1965.

Ralph Chaplin, 73, a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) during World War I; wrote the labor anthem "Solidarity Forever," 23 March 1961.

Colby M. Chester, 88, president (1924-1935) and chairman of the board (1935-1943) of Postum Foods, now General Foods Corporation, 26 September 1965.

Martin W. Clement, 84, president (1935-1951) and chairman of the board (1949-1951) of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 3 August 1966.

Baynard S. Colgate, 65, head of Colgate-Palmolive Company (1933-1952), 8 October 1963.

Harvey N. Collisoli, 66, board chairman of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, 1 November 1966.

Samuel Cooke, 66, an originator of the supermarket in Philadelphia in 1927, 22 May 1965.

Howard Coonley, 89, former president of National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), 25 February 1966.

Joshua Lionel Cowen, 85, founder and chairman of Lionel Corporation (maker of Lionel toy trains), 8 September 1965.

Mark W. Cresap, Jr., 53, president of Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1958-1963), 28 July 1963.

Powel Crosley, Jr., 74, car manufacturer; owner of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team, 28 March 1961.

Edward Cudahy, Jr., 80, 1900 kidnapping victim, meatpacking executive, 8 January 1966.

Harlow H. Curtice, 69, business executive; forty-four-year career with GM; president of AC Spark Plug Division (1929-1933); president of Buick Motor Division (1933-1948); and president of GM (1953-1958), 3 November 1962.

Charles B. Darrow, 78, inventor of the game Monopoly, 28 August 1967.

Roy E. Davidson, 63, head of the International Brother-hood of Locomotive Engineers, 6 July 1964.

Arthur V. Davis, 95, president of Alcoa in 1910 and board chairman from 1928 to 1957, 17 November 1962.

Walt Disney, 65, movie producer, creator of such famous characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, and the theme park Disneyland, 15 December 1966.

Edward H. Dodd, 96, president (1916-1928) and chairman (1928-1938) of book publisher Dodd, Mead and Company, 19 June 1965.

Frank C. Dodd, 92, former chairman of Dodd, Mead and Company, 4 January 1968.

Hartley M. Dodge, 82, owner and head of Remington Arms Company, 25 December 1963.

Joseph M. Dodge, 74, banker; helped rebuild Germany's monetary system (1945-1946) and reorganized Japan's economy (1949-1952), 2 December 1964.

Orvil E. Dryfoos, 50, president (1957-1961) and publisher (1961-1963) of The New York Times, 25 May 1963.

Irenee Du Pont, 86, president of Du Pont (1919-1926), 19 December 1963.

Roy S. Durstine, 75, a founder in 1918 of Batten, Barton, Durs tine and Osborn advertising agency, had run his own advertising agency since 1939, 28 November 1962.

J. Frank Duryea, 97, codesigner (with brother Charles) of the first gasoline-engine automobile in the United States, which had its first trial run in September 1893, 15 February 1967.

Frederick H. Ecker, 96, head of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (1929-1951), 20 March 1964.

Charles Edison, 78, president (1926-1950) and board chairman (1950-1957) of his father's firm, Thomas A. Edison; board chairman (1957-1961) of successor firm, McGraw-Edison; Democratic governor of New Jersey (1941-1944), 31 July 1969.

Sherwood H. Egbert, 49, president of Studebaker Corporation (1961-1963) who unsuccessfully tried to re-turn company to financial success, 30 July 1969.

Edwin Ekstrom, 78, founder of the Greyhound Bus Company, 7 May 1967.

R. A. Emerson, 54, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 13 March 1966.

Benjamin F. Fairless, 71, president (1938-1952) and chairman (1952-1955) of U.S. Steel, 1 January 1962.

Marshall Field, Jr., 49, president and publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times; chairman of the board of Field Enterprises, 18 September 1965.

Charles T. Fisher, 83, one of seven brothers who founded Fisher Body Company (a division of General Motors from 1926) in 1908, 8 August 1963.

James L. Fly, 67, businessman and lawyer, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (1939-1944), 6 January 1966.

Bruce C. Forbes, 48, president and publisher of Forbes business magazine, 2 June 1964.

Roy A. Fruehauf, 57, former chairman of the board of Fruehauf Trailer Company, 30 October 1965.

Wilfred J. Funk, 82, son of the founder of the dictionary and encyclopedia publishing company Funk and Wagnalls; president of the company from 1925 to 1940, 1 June 1965.

Walter S. Gifford, 81, efficiency expert, president (1925-1948) and chairman of the board (1948-1950) of American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 7 May 1966.

Bernard F. Gimbel, 81, president (1927-1953) and chairman of the board (1931-1966) of Gimbel Brothers, a chain of retail department stores, 29 September 1966.

Tom M. Girdler, 87, president and board chairman of Republic Steel Corporation; former president of Jones and Laughlin Steel, 4 February 1965.

Eugene G. Grace, 83, president since 1913 of Bethlehem Steel Corporation, second largest steel producer in the United States; chairman of the board (1936-1957), 25 July 1960.

Robert C. Graham, 82, one of three brothers, makers of Graham-Paige automobiles, 3 October 1967.

Chester H. Gray, 84, founder of the American Farm Bureau Federation, 1 April 1964.

Albert M. Greenfield, 79, department-store tycoon; one-time owner of Tiffany's, 5 January 1967.

Robert E. Gross, 64, owner (from 1932) and board chairman of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, 3 September 1961.

Larry E. Gubb, 74, former board chairman, Philco Corporation, 10 November 1966.

Harold K. Guinzburg, 61, a founder (in 1925) and president of Viking Press, 18 October 1961.

Paul M. Hahn, 68, former president of American Tobacco Company, 9 August 1963.

Alfred L. Hammell, 72, president of Railway Express Agency (1949-1959), 8 February 1962.

Thomas J. Hargrave, 70, president of Eastman Kodak from 1941, 21 February 1962.

George M. Harrison, 73, labor-union leader; vice-president of American Federation of Labor (1934-1955); chairman of Railway Labor Executives Association (1935-1940); president (1928-1963) and chief executive officer (1963-1965) of National Brother-hood of Railway Clerks, 30 November 1968.

Fred A. Hartley, Jr., 66, U.S. congressman from New Jersey (1929-1949); co-author with Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio of the Taft-Hartley Labor Relations Act in 1947, 11 May 1969.

Amory L. Haskell, 72, founder and president of Mon-mouth Park Race Track; introduced safety glass to U.S. auto manufacturers, 12 April 1966.

John D. Hertz, 82, founder of Yellow Cab Company (in 1915) and Hertz Rent-A-Car (in 1924), 8 October 1961.

Eugene Holman, 67, head of Standard Oil of New Jersey from 1944 to 1960, 12 August 1962.

Mark C. Honeywell, 89, head of Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulators (1927-1935), makers of heating systems and thermostats, 13 September 1964.

Charles R. Hook, 83, head of American Rolling Mill Company from 1930 to 1959, 14 November 1963.

Herbert C. Hoover, Jr., 65, mining engineer; undersecretary of state (1954-1957); helped settle Anglo-Iranian dispute over the Abadan oil field; son of President Herbert Hoover, 9 July 1969.

Harry Humphreys, Jr., 66, former chairman and president of Uniroyal, 3 September 1967.

Edward F. Hutton, 86, founder of the brokerage firm E. F. Hutton and Company in 1904; chairman of Postum Cereal Company (now General Foods) from 1923 to 1935, 11 July 1962.

Edward W. Isom, 76, president of Sinclair Rubber (1942-1952) and board chairman of Sinclair Chemical (1952-1955), 19 January 1962.

Alton W. Jones, 70, head of Cities Service Company from 1939 to 1959, 1 March 1962.

Henry J. Kaiser, 85, entrepreneur and industrialist; involved in aluminum, automobiles, cement, shipbuilding, and steel; also founded one of the nation's largest health-maintenance organizations, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, 24 August 1967.

Herbert T. Kalmus, 81, codeveloper of Technicolor process for motion pictures, 11 July 1963.

Natalie M. Kalmus, 87, codeveloper of Technicolor, 15 November 1965.

W. M. Keck, 84, founder of Superior Oil Company, 20 August 1964.

K. T. Keller, 80, president and chairman of the board of Chrysler Corporation, 21 January 1966.

Thomas Kennedy, 75, president of United Mine Workers (1960-1963), 19 January 1963.

Herbert A. Kent, 73, president (1942-1952) and board chairman (1952-1955) of P. Lorillard Company, a manufacturer of cigarettes, 19 July 1960.

James H. Kindelberger, 67, head of North American Aviation from 1935; the company produced 14 per-cent of U.S. military aircraft during World War II, 27 July 1962.

Willard M. Kiplinger, 76, founder of the Kiplinger Letters and Changing Times, 6 August 1967.

Blanche W. Knopf, 71, cofounder and president, Alfred A. Knopf, 4 June 1966.

Sebastian S. Kresge, 90, founder of S. S. Kresge Company, originally a dime-store chain, now giant Kresge Corporation, owner of discounter K-Mart, 18 October 1966.

Rush H. Kress, 85, with his brother Samuel developer of S. H. Kress and Company into a chain of variety stores, 22 March 1963.

Thomas Lamont, 68, financier and onetime partner of J. P. Morgan; convened meeting of representatives from major banking houses in an attempt to halt stock market decline in October 1929, 10 April 1967.

James M. Landis, 64, lawyer and government official; served on the Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Civil Aeronautics Board; drew up a report on federal regulation for President-elect John Kennedy, 31 July 1964.

Russell C. Leffingwell, 82, board chairman of J. P. Morgan and Company (1948-1955); assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury (1917-1920), 2 October 1960.

Nathaniel Leverone, 84, founder and head of Automatic Canteen Company, which led the way in the development and production of reliable vending machines on a national scale, 30 May 1969.

Abraham Levitt, 82, building contractor; his company mass-produced over sixty thousand houses after World War II; famous for building three suburban communities, all named Levittown, in the Northeast, 20 August 1962.

John L. Lewis, 89, president of the United Mine Workers (1920-1960); in 1935 led several unions out of the AFL to found the CIO; served as its president until 1940, 11 June 1969.

Josiah K. Lilly, 72, chairman of the board, Eli Lilly and Company, a pharmaceutical firm, 4 May 1966.

Jesse T. Littleton, 78, developer of Pyrex glassware, 24 February 1966.

Henry R. Luce, 68, founder, editor, and publisher of Time, Life, and Fortune, 28 February 1967.

Alfred Lyon, 81, former president of Philip Morris, 7 May 1967.

Elliot B. Macrae, 67, publisher; president of E. P. Dutton and Company, 13 February 1968.

Walter P. Marshall, 67, former president (1948-1965) and chairman (1965-1966) of Western Union Tele-graph Company, 5 May 1969.

Homer Martin, 66, first president of the United Auto Workers, 22 January 1968.

Oscar G. Mayer, 76, president of Oscar Mayer Corporation, 5 March 1965.

L. B. Maytag, 78, former president of Maytag Company, a major appliance manufacturer, 8 August 1967.

Fowler B. McConnell, 67, president (1946-1958) and board chairman (1958-1960) of Sears, Roebuck and Company, 27 December 1961.

William G. Mennen, 83, chairman of the Mennen Company, 17 February 1968.

Gustav Metzman, 73, president of the New York Central Railroad (1944-1952), 11 April 1960.

Thomas Millsop, 68, former chairman of the board, National Steel Corporation, 12 September 1967.

James P. Mitchell, 63, secretary of labor under President Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961); opposed right-to-work laws, 19 October 1964.

Theodore Montague, 69, former president of Borden Company, 13 August 1967.

Wyndham Mortimer, 82, a founder of the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 23 August 1966.

Thomas E. Murray, 69, organizer in 1939 of Murray Manufacturing Company, maker of electrical switches; member of the Atomic Energy Commission (1950-1957), 26 May 1961.

Edgar A. Newberry, 75, head of J. J. Newberry Company, a variety-store chain from 1939, 25 January 1962.

Wilbur H. Norton, 59, president of Montgomery Ward (1946-1948); vice-president of General Motors (1949-1952), 2 April 1963.

Irving S. Olds, 76, board chairman of U.S. Steel (1940-1952), 4 March 1963.

William F. O'Neil, 76, founder and board chairman of General Tire and Rubber Company, 4 September 1960.

Cola G. Parker, 72, president of Kimberly-Clark Corpo-ration (1942-1953); president of National Association of Manufacturers (1956), 27 June 1962.

Josephine B. Paul, 61, president of the brokerage firm A. M. Kidder and Company from 1956, 6 August 1962.

Frances Perkins, 83, expert on industrial relations and first woman cabinet member; served as President Franklin Roosevelt's secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945, 14 May 1965.

T. S. Petersen, 69, retired president, Standard Oil of California, 16 September 1966.

Joseph N. Pew, Jr., 76, chairman of Sun Oil Company from 1947, 9 April 1963.

Gerald L. Phillippe, 59, chairman of General Electric Company, 18 October 1968.

John Pillsbury, 90, retired head of Pillsbury Foods, 31 January 1968.

Gregory Pincus, 64, one of the developers of the birth-control pill, 22 August 1967.

Robert A. Pinkerton, 62, chairman of Pinkerton, the private detective agency, infamous for being brought in against the Homestead Steel Works strikers in 1892, 11 October 1967.

Edgar Monsanto Queeny, 70, former head of the chemical firm Monsanto, 7 July 1968.

Michael J. Quill, 60, one of the founders and president of Transport Workers Union of America, 28 January 1966.

James Henry Rand, 81, cofounder of Sperry-Rand Corporation, a business machine and computer firm, 3 June 1968.

Clarence B. Randall, 76, retired chairman of Inland Steel, 4 August 1967.

Stanley B. Resor, 83, president (1916-1955) and board chairman (1955-1961) of J. Walter Thompson Company, 29 October 1962.

Roy Reuther, 58, organizer of the United Auto Workers, brother of Walter Reuther (president of the CIO), 10 January 1968.

R. J. Reynolds, 58, heir to tobacco fortune, 14 December 1964.

Ralph O. Rhoades, 65, geologist and oil company executive; in 1935 did research that led to discovery of oil in Kuwait, 19 July 1961.

Stanley M. Rinehart, Jr., 71, founder in 1929 of Farrar and Rinehart, which in 1960 became Holt, Rinehart and Winston, a major publisher of college textbooks, 26 April 1969.

A. W. Robertson, 85, board chairman of Westinghouse Electric Corporation from 1929 to 1951, 18 December 1965.

David A. Robertson, 80, head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (1922-1953), 27 September 1961.

William E. Robinson, 68, businessman; president (1948-1954) and publisher (1954) of the New York Herald Tribune; president (1955-1958), board chairman and chief executive officer (1958-1961) of CocaCola; under Robinson's leadership Coke achieved re-cord in sales volume, 6 June 1969.

Helena Rubinstein, 94, founder and president of Helena Rubinstein, a cosmetics firm; one of the world's wealthiest women, 1 April 1965.

Margaret Rudkin, 69, founder of Pepperidge Farm, 1 June 1967.

Joseph P. Ryan, 79, president of the International Longshoremen's Association (1927-1953), 26 June 1963.

John Savage, 88, engineer who designed Hoover Dam and Grand Coulee Dam, 28 December 1967.

Joseph M. Schenk, 82, motion picture executive; president of United Artists (1927-1933) and later president and board chairman of 20th Century-Fox, 22 October 1961.

Charles F. Seabrook, 83, cofounded with Clarence Birdseye a frozen-food marketing firm (1932), 20 October 1964.

Richard L. Simon, 61, cofounded publishing firm Simon and Schuster in 1924, 29 July 1960.

Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., 90, president and later chairman of the board of General Motors in the 1920s and 1930s; famous for his reorganization of GM, 17 February 1966.

Robert L. Smith, 71, board chairman of the cough-drop manufacturers Smith Brothers from 1955, 7 January 1962.

Winthrop Smith, 67, board chairman of the huge brokerage firm Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, 10 January 1961.

Harold Stanley, 77, head of the investment house of Morgan, Stanley and Company from 1935 to 1956,14 May 1963.

Frank D. Stranahan, 89, cofounder of Champion Spark Plug Company in 1908, 10 November 1965.

Robert A. Stranahan, Sr., 75, cofounder of Champion Spark Plug Company, 9 February 1962.

Leon A. Swirbul, 62, founder and president of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, 28 June 1960.

Wilfred Sykes, 80, president of Inland Steel Company (1941-1949), 2 May 1964.

J. Maurice Treneer, 86, creator of Alka-Seltzer for Miles Laboratories, 2 July 1968.

Walter J. Tuohy, 65, chief executive officer of the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) and the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) railroads, 12 May 1966.

J. C. van Eck, 84, Dutch industrialist; founder of Shell Oil Company in United States (1912); president of Shell Oil (1923-1936); managing director of Royal Dutch-Shell Group (1936-1947), 16 February 1965.

Guy W. Vaughn, 82, former president of Curtiss-Wright Corporation, 21 November 1966.

Jesse G. Vincent, 82, inventor of the first V-12 automobile engine, 20 April 1962.

Edward C. Werle, 56, board chairman of the New York Curb (later American) Exchange (1944-1947) and of the New York Stock Exchange (1958-1961), 7 January 1962.

Roy B. White, 77, president (1941-1953) and chairman (1953-1961) of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 3 June 1961.

Arthur D. Whiteside, 77, president of the credit-rating agency Dun and Bradstreet (1933-1952), 17 June 1960.

George Whitney, 77, head of J. P. Morgan and Company from 1940 to 1955, 22 July 1963.

Albert N. Williams, 73, head of Western Union Tele-graph Company from 1941 to 1946, 2 October 1961.

Charles E. Wilson, 71, president of General Motors (1946-1954) and secretary of defense (1954-1957), 26 September 1961.

Robert E. Wilson, 71, head of Standard Oil Company of Indiana from 1945 to 1958; member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1960-1964), 1 September 1964.

Edwin E. Witte, 73, economist; an expert on labor/management relations and labor law, he was executive director of President Franklin Roosevelt's Commission of Economic Security, which drafted the 1935 Social Security Act, 20 May 1960.

Robert E. Wood, 90, vice-president (1924-1928), president (1928-1939), and chairman (1939-1954) of Sears, Roebuck and Company; under his leadership, Sears became the world's largest retailer, 6 November 1969.

C. E. Woolman, 76, chairman of the board, Delta Air Lines, 11 September 1966.

Samuel Zemurray, 84, Russian-born businessman who ran United Fruit Company from 1938 to 1951, 30 November 1961.