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Last week it appeared that Denver's Dean Johnston might long be remembered in the lawbooks to which he had devoted himself. Two years after his fatal heart attack, the Colorado Industrial Commission referee ruled that his death had come by overexertion while carrying out the duties of his employment, awarded Johnston's widow $11,466 in workmen's compensation. The commission itself later overruled its referee, only to be reversed, fortnight ago, by Denver District Court Judge Donald D. Bowman, who reinstated the award. Denver University, found the judge, paid Dean Johnston's fraternity dues...
...Johnston case, on its way this week to the Colorado Supreme Court, is not without precedent. New York has for some years held that physical or mental strain, resulting in a fatal heart attack, was overexertion under the workmen's compensation laws. But Judge Bowman ruled that Dean Johnston's fatal attack "constituted an accidental injury within the course and scope of his employment as dean." On that finding, the Johnston case could become a hallmark not in workmen's compensation but in the full field of life insurance. Said a worried insurance executive last week...
...following a one-hour surgical mano a mano with death, was expected to return to the ring by month's end; and West Germany's pugnacious pacifist, Evangelical Church Pastor (and World War I U-boat Skipper) Martin Niemoller, 69, who, while vacationing in Denmark, suffered near fatal injuries in an auto crackup that killed his wife and housekeeper...
...from two U.S. colleges-and earned him as much as $4,000 per half-hour; of a heart attack; in Peking. He defiantly grew a mustache to avoid entertaining China's Japanese conquerors during World War II, but traveled the world for the Communists, was visited during his fatal illness by another onetime tan (male actress)-Red China's Premier Chou Enlai...
...issue, four men are tagged with the fatal word. Danny Kaye is referred to as an "old (48) Mittyslicker." Admiral Arleigh Burke, retiring while still capable of exercising his wit, is dubbed the "old king of the cans (59)." And Prince Philip, of all people, turns up as an "old Naval person"-a title hitherto reserved for one whose undeniable claims upon it were immortalized by his correspondence with an American president...