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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1969 Sep 11 p. 3
Birth date: 1896
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Prominent National Figures Taken in Death
The death of three prominent national figures — in the fields of politics, journalism and religion — highlighted the news during the past week.
In Washington, Sen. Everett M. Dirksen, top-ranking Republican in Congress, died unexpectedly of heart failure after undergoing an operation for lung cancer. He was 73.
Also succumbing to a heart ailment from which he had suffered for a long time was Drew Pearson, 71, whose "Washington Merry-Go-Round" appeared in 625 daily and weekly newspapers for many years. A Quaker, Pearson concentrated on exposing behind-the-scenes activities of government officials.
Found dead on a cliffside in Israel, two miles from the Dead Sea, was America's most controversial ex-churchman, Dr. James A. Pike, who had gone to the Holy Land with his wife to study "the origins of Christianity." The two-times divorced former Episcopal bishop had only recently severed all connections with his church over such issues as the Virgin Birth, immortality, and communication with the dead.