Milestones, Nov. 18, 1957

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Died. Wilhelm Reich, 60, once-famed psychoanalyst, associate and follower of Sigmund Freud, founder of the Wilhelm Reich Foundation, lately better known for unorthodox sex and energy theories; of a heart attack; in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, Pa., where he was serving a two-year term for distributing his invention, the "orgone energy accumulator" (in violation of the Food and Drug Act), a telephone-booth-size device which supposedly gathered energy from the atmosphere, could cure, while the patient sat inside, common colds, cancer and impotence.

Died. James ("Big Jim") Campbell, 62, tough but mild-mannered general secretary of Britain's 370,000-man National Union of Railwaymen; after a car collision (with a Russian truck) in which N.U.R. President Tom Hollywood, 54, was also fatally injured; in Stalingrad's Defense Square (top British union officials were on a three-week tour of Russia).

Died. George Wilhelm Herman Emanuel Merck, 63, towering (6 ft. 5 in.) chairman (since 1949) and longtime president (1925-50) of Merck & Co., Inc., the mass-producing drug and chemicals manufacturer that was launched as a pharmacy in Darmstadt, Germany in 1668 by his ancestors (TIME, Aug. 18, 1952); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in West Orange, N.J. Devoted to company activities, with an exuberant capacity for work, Merck directed the Government's wartime research on biological warfare, built his company (last year's gross: $172.4 million) mostly on good will ("Medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits").

Died. James Edwin (Ted) Meredith, 65, fleet-footed oldtime track champion who won fame at the age of 20 by setting a world record for the 800-meter run at the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games, later set the 440-and 880-yd. records, also served as an income-tax-delinquent hunter; after long illness; in Camden, N.J.

Died. Giuseppe di Vittorio, 65, burly, brawling boss of Italy's Communist General Labor Confederation (CGIL) and onetime (1949-57) president of the party-line World Federation of Trade Unions; of a heart attack; while dedicating a new labor hall at Lecco, near Milan. Di Vittorio strongarmed his CGIL into an 8,000,000-member postwar political powerhouse, saw it dwindle to 3,000,000, become well-matched by Italy's free unions. Last year he publicly denounced the "intervention of foreign troops" in Hungary, was branded a "class collaborationist" and bounced from the WFTU presidency.

Died. Henderson Lovelace Lanham, 69, U.S. Representative from Georgia since 1947, who viewed himself as a "progressive without being a radical"; when his car collided with a train; in Rome, Ga.