Milestones: Apr. 5, 1968

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Died. Belle Willard Roosevelt, 75, of the Oyster Bay (meaning Republican) Roosevelts, daughter-in-law of Teddy, widow of Kermit and to her family's dismayed surprise, ardently Democratic supporter of Franklin; of cancer; in Manhattan.

Died. Dr. William M. Scholl, 85, foot doctor to the world and the first bunion millionaire; in Chicago. Scholl, who had but one corn in his whole life, informed the limping populace that "Ninety percent of the American public is walking around with sore feet, and in almost every case it's the fault of the individual," then helped ease the pain with more than 1,000 foot comforts peddled around the world. An oddball to some (for years he carried a skeleton of a foot in his pocket), he claimed that success in podiatry is a matter of "early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise."

Died. Winthrop M. Crane Jr., 86, board chairman of Crane & Co., the 167-year-old family firm that for nearly a century has made practically all the paper for U.S. currency; of pneumonia; in Dalton, Mass.

Died. Eleonora Sears, 86, Thomas Jefferson's great-great-granddaughter, member of a wealthy Boston family, who devoted her life to vigorous sports in a day when most ladies stopped at croquet; in Palm Beach, Fla. Poised, beautifully dressed, feminine enough that Harold S. Vanderbilt reportedly asked for her hand, she nevertheless was a sport for all seasons; she excelled in tennis (National Singles champion in 1907), squash (so good and so persistent that all-male clubs opened their doors), polo (in which she appeared wearing pants and astride the horse), sailing, ice skating—anything, in fact, that caught her fancy. And later, when age crept up, her idea of a day's outing was a marathon walk, such as the 1925 quicktime (47 miles in 11 hr. 5 min.) hike between Providence and Boston, when she urged on her laggard male companions, saying: "You're supposed to pace me, not chase me."