Milestones, Mar. 13, 1972

Died. Paul Howard ("Dizzy") Trout, 56, Detroit Tigers pitching ace and scrambled-syntax raconteur; of cancer; in Chicago. A country boy from Sandcut, Ind., a town "what can be in two different places overnight if the wind blows hard enough," Trout became a Detroit hero during World War II. In 1944 he won 27 games and posted the lowest earned run average (2.12) in the major leagues. He pitched for several years more, then adapted his freewheeling delivery to a job as the Tigers' radio announcer.

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Died. William H. Lawrence, 56, political reporter and national-affairs editor of ABC News; of a heart attack; in Bedford, N.H. An aggressive newsman of the never-take-no-for-an-answer school, Lawrence worked for both the Associated Press and United Press before joining the New York Times 30 years ago. After a stint abroad, he returned to Washington and his favorite beat—politics. Though he had a voice of gravel and the face of an unsuccessful prizefighter, he made the switch to television with ease ten years ago and continued to report scoops with enviable frequency.

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Died. Herbert Feis, 78, economist, historian and Government adviser in the Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman Administrations; in Winter Park, Fla. Feis entered the State Department in 1931 as an economist, but his masterwork was a ten-volume history of American foreign policy from 1933 to the 1950s. Though some younger historians questioned the objectivity of a man so close to his topic, Feis' books were widely praised for their richness of detail and incisive presentation. His account of the Potsdam Conference, Between War and Peace, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1960.

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Died. Victor George Heiser, 99. globe-traveling public health authority; in New York. As a young doctor with the U.S. Government before the turn of the century, Heiser helped establish immigration health standards that are still in use today. Later, as chief quarantine officer and director of health in the Philippines, he exercised nearly dictatorial powers for a dozen years in the fight against bubonic plague, cholera, smallpox, beriberi and malaria. He was credited with reducing the death toll in the islands by 100,000 a year. As an emissary of the Rockefeller Foundation, he traveled to disease-ridden corners of the world, campaigning for modern sanitation and good diet. His 1936 memoirs. An American Doctor's Odyssey, became an international bestseller that vied with Gone With the Wind in popularity.