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20 Part I Monday, June 15, 1981 Do0 Anjjetea STimce OBITUARIES He Bit Hand That Bred Him Byrd Disciple Fought Senator on Desegregation I II frX Jill 'Si iiiiiis mmm: slip piK: mi iwir" i Vfffcji in I ''jf" iii Am- I fir available to only those who couldn't afford the private system in Virginia's case, blacks. Darden charged that Byrd's program was "an illusion" and "doomed to failure." He and a handful of others not only salvaged Virginia's school system but also managed to integrate Virgina's last bastion of segregation, the university at Charlottesville. Although Darden was considered a progressive in integration, he said he considered prison reform his greatest contribution. Pardon of Dying Prisoner As governor he modified probation and parole practices; established a state corrections department and built prisons solely for first-time offenders. Darden said his most memorable moment as governor was when he was able to pardon a terminally ill prisoner so the man could die at home.

Darden, who last appeared in public May 30 when he went to Richmond to appeal for unity among warring Democrats, died in his sleep June 9 at his Norfolk home. He was 84. Last week Sen. Harry Flood Byrd who was elected in 1964 to the U.S. Senate seat once held by his father, said: "Virginia has lost a great statesman who rendered inestimable services to the Commonwealth, as governor, president of the University of Virginia and as one of our ablest private citizens." -DANNY C.PORTER Russell Hayden, William Boyd in scene from "Border Vigalentes." 'Ridin' Romeo 'Known for Trips With One Cowboy Aide Served Both Farouk and Nasser Survived Revolution to Help Rebels Deal With Moscow From Times Wire Services CAIRO-Mahmoud Fawzi, the career Egyptian diplomat appointed by a monarch but who later taught the niceties of statemanship to the revolutionary who overthrew that king, died June 12 at the age of 81.

He had been hospitalized briefly for a brain clot and died of its complications. Considered the chief foreign policy adviser of modern Egypt, Fawzi was a confidant both of King Farouk and the man who took away Farouk's throne in 1952, Gamal Ab-del Nasser. Carry Out Policy "He didn't think it was a diplomat's job to make policy, just advise and carry it out," said one veteran Western diplomat who had known him for years. He served Farouk as ambassador to many nations and was Egypt's permanent United Nations representative from 1946-52. He served Nasser first as ambassador to Great Britain and then foreign minister.

Anwar Sadat, Egypt's current president, named him prime minister, a post Nasser had claimed for himself. He assumed the prime minister's post, which Sadat relegated to a secondary position, on Nasser's death in 1970 and held it for two years. Shortly after Nasser was elected president in 1956 he had Fawzi tutor him in elementary diplomacy and then took Fawzi to Moscow in 1958 when Nikita S. Khrushchev first agreed to arm Egypt. After earning a law degree in Cairo in 1923 and working as a clerk in the Egyptian Embassy in Rome, Fawzi was named to consular posts in New York and New Orleans.

In 1929 he went to Japan where he mastered not only the language and a-taste for Oriental philosophy but a proficiency in judo. Fawzi also spoke English, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek and Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia. At the United Nations he was known for his philosophical speeches which he flavored with Oriental proverbs. Even the Western diplomats who opposed him there came to respect his defenses of the Arab cause in the 1948 war with Israel and his impassioned plea for the Palestinians made homeless by the creation of the state of Israel. Fawzi's last position was as one of two vice presidents under Sadat.

He had retired in 1974 because of his advancing age. Colgate W. Darden Jr. in 1950. had failed to achieve the promise of its founder, Thomas Jefferson, by encouraging "lavish" living for students and permitting fraternities to erect social barriers.

And when the Supreme Court in 1954 desegregated the nation's schools, Darden offered one of the first challenges to Byrd's "massive resistance" program. Byrd had decreed that rather than integrate Virginia's schools, they would become part of a system of private education with the state offering subsidies for tuition. His plan would have left public schools Former Virginia Gov. Colgate W. Darden Jr.

was a true son of the Confederacy. Descended from the landed gentry, he practiced law and taught before becoming part of the political family of Harry Flood Byrd a political machine that extended from the state Capitol in Richmond to justices of the peace in Virginia's back country. It was a machine that brooked no interference and in exchange offered automatic election to its chosen Democratic candidates. But Darden, a former member of the state House of Delegates and member of Congress, began knocking subtle chinks in the Byrd machine when he was elected Virgin-. ia's 54th governor in 1941.

Funds for Black Colleges He had inherited a surplus of $12 million from the outgoing administration and not only used it to liquidate Virginia's Civil War debt but also appropriated additional state funds to black colleges and medical schools. He served only one term and when offered a vacant seat in the U.S. Senate opted to exchange politics for academia and become chancellor of the College of William and Mary. He said he wanted to pursue his ideas of "equalizing education for blacks in the South." He spent the next several years at William and Mary and then as president of the University of Virginia. At the university, Darden created a furor, charging that the school Linguist Spent Life Studying Criminal Slang From Times Wire Services LOUISVILLE, linguistics professor who wrote books based on his expert knowledge of underworld slang has been found dead at his home.

Police said David Warren Maurer, 75, who taught at the University of Kentucky, was an apparent suicide. His body was found June 11. Maurer received a doctorate from Ohio State University in 1935 and spent much of his academic career studying the slang of the criminal, underworld and drug cultures. Maurer, who taught at the University of Louisville for 37 years, also studied the dialects of more than 75 subcultures in the United States, Latin America and Europe. In 1974 he filed a $10-million lawsuit charging that the movie "The Sting" and the book of the same name had been copied from his 1940 book, "The Big Con." The lawsuit was settled out of court in 1976.

Cooperative Farm Booster Bertram B. Fowler, whose books on cooperative farming were credited with the spreading popularity of that movement in the United States and Canada, died June 4 in Los Angeles at the age of 87. His "Food: A Weapon of Victory," published in 1942, championed the co-op cause and he followed it with "The Lord Helps Those" and "The Co-operative Challenge." Passings look-Alike Surgsry Filmland Tried to Make What Valentino's Brother Lacked Sherman told him the job paid $1000 a week, and Russ said, 'Hell, If Hayden hadn't become a celluloid cowboy, he had the skills to be a real one. Born Pate Lucid on a ranch near Chico, Hayden spent the first 17 years of his life breaking horses and herding cattle. Move to Hollywood "I always wanted to be a rancher," he once remarked, "even after we were forced to move to Hollywood during the Depression." After graduating from Hollywood High School Hayden held dozens of odd jobs in the movie industry -everything from fetching water for actors to working in the printing labs at Paramount.

He even worked as Howard Hughes personal projectionist for a short time before Sherman hired him. With the advent of television, Hayden moved from the screen to the tube. From 1950-52 he co-starred with Jackie Coogan in "Cowboy the first television serial filmed in color. "Hayden was a man's man," remembered Coogan, "he was a real cowboy, not one of these manufactured for the screen types. He could ride, shoot and hunt with the best of them." He later produced and directed "26 Men," a TV series on the Arizona Rangers that was filmed in Phoenix.

He also produced, directed and appeared in the "Judge Roy Bean" TV series in 1956-57, which was filmed at his California desert ranch, Pioneer Town. Hayden died June 9, one day short of his 71st birthday, in Palm Springs. -JEFF GLASS Young Man Came West, Built Two Fortunes As "Lucky" he was the "rootin', tootin' riding Romeo of the screen," roping and carousing his way into the hearts and imaginations of a generation of A matinee favorite during the halcyon days of the 'B' Western, Russell Hayden was the handsome sagebrush hero who starred in nearly 100 films with almost every Hollywood cowboy from Hoot Gibson to Roy Rogers. In 1943-44, at the pinnacle of his acting career, Hayden was voted one of the 10 top money making Western stars by the Motion Picture Herald-Fame Poll. But the one role that catapulted Hayden to fame, and the one for which he is best known and remembered, was that of "Lucky," William Boyd's womanizing sidekick in the popular Hopalong Cassidy series.

Start on Screen In four short years Hayden made 27 films with Boyd before deciding he was getting too old for the part. Hayden's widow, former actress, Lillian Porter recalled last week how Hayden got his start: "Russ never planned to be an actor. It was 1936 and he was working for Harry Sherman, Hoppy's producer, as a go-fer. "At the time Jimmy Ellison was playing the part of Lucky, but he was offered a part in "The Plainsman' with Gary Cooper, and grabbed it. "Well, Sherman had done some riding with Russ, and when he learned Jimmy was leaving, he asked Russ if he wanted to be an actor.

Russ answered 'Hell Then 1923, he went to work for Bell. "Bell noticed his talent," Gilliland's son, Daniel said. "He became Bell's troubleshooter." His relationship with Bell, which was to last until Bell's death in 1947, led to his appointment as the executive vice president of the Alphonzo E. Bell manager of Bel-Air and president and general manager of Bell Oil Refining Co. When the Bell properties were sold in 1947, he formed Gilliland Oil and diversified into ranching and farming in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and Kern counties.

establishment of the group plan at The Claremont Colleges which had begun as a single institution, Pomona College, in the early 1900s. In 1925, after being named secretary of the colleges, Bernard filed articles of incorporation marking the establishment of the Claremont Graduate School and the beginning of the Claremont group plan. He became administrative director of the Claremont Colleges in 1942, managing director in 1944 and was named president in 1959. First President George G.S. Benson, first president of Claremont Men's College, dates his friendship with Bernard from 1946, the year he and Bernard helped found Claremont Men's College.

Benson said that "of all the administrators I have known, Bernard was the most altruistic. It was his drive and energy that got Claremont Men's College started and that was the turning point that led to the expansion of the entire Claremont group plan." Bernard was president of the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities from Joseph H. Gilliland came west looking for success and money in 1922, at the restless age of 20. He found what he was searching for in Los Angeles, and by his 28th birthday, he amassed fortunes built on oil and land. Together with Alphonzo E.

Bell oil magnate and real estate pioneer of the 1920s, Gilliland helped develop the Santa Fe Springs Oil fields and the exclusive Bel-Air district. Gilliland's career began with Union Oil Co. in the boom days of Santa Fe Springs. After one year, in Alberto Valentino had little in common with his more famous brother. Born three years before Rudolph, he wasn't blessed with the flashing eyes and sensuous mouth that elevated his younger brother to stardom in silent films and whose death in 1926 sparked an emotional outpouring of grief that resulted in several suicides.

Shortly after his brother died, Alberto (born Alberto Guglielmi d'Antonguolla) came to Hollywood, essentially to settle his brother's estate. But Hollywood, being what it was in 1927, convinced Alberto that the Valentino name alone could be a box-office attraction and he subjected himself to plastic surgery, ostensibly to make him more closely resemble "The Sheik." Attempted Film Career Newspapers carried before and after pictures of his profile and Alberto, an Italian government aide, consented to a film career. In 1928 he appeared on the casting sheet of "Tropic Madness" as Albert Valentino, but the fate of the film is unknown. Accounts of his life after that were sporadic. In 1931 he charged, in a civil suit, that the plastic surgery had proved so unsatisfactory it had to be redone; in 1945 he denied the claim of a former Ziegfeld Follies girl that was named company treasurer in 1951.

In 1960 he became president, then the company's second-highest position after board chairman and was named vice chairman of the board in 1968, retiring in 1969. In Deerfield, 111., on June 6. Frank Cotter, 65, Superior Court judge in the San Fernando Valley since 1972. He was a senior partner in the firm of Cotter, Lindholm and Johnson when then Gov. Ronald Reagan named him to the bench.

Cotter was one of four children born to missionary parents in China. His sisters went on to acting careers as Audrey and Jayne Meadows while his brother, Edward, also went into President Fashioned a Group From Six Academic Clusters Immigrant Who Started Benrus Firm; Archeologist Changed Human Timetable Los Angela Times Alberto Valentino in 1966. she had been wed secretly to his brother in 1925, and in 1952 he settled out of court with Edward Small Productions and Columbia Pictures Corp. over alleged distortions he had found in the film "Valentino." But most of his life was spent writing foreign dialogue for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and later working as an accountant for 20th Century--Fox, retiring in 1965. Valentino was 89 when he died June 4.

law. In Sherman Oaks on June 13 of cancer. Claire Britton, 87, pastor of Bethany Church of Alhambra for 42 years, from 1924-66 and veteran teacher in the Assemblies of God churches. Britton assumed the pastorship at Alhambra after taking over Aimee Semple McPherson's religious classes when the famed evangelist vanished briefly in 1926. He later helped found the Haven of Rest radio ministry and was active in evangelical work in Mexico.

He also taught at Southern California College in Costa Mesa and life College, a Four Square Bible school in Los Angeles. In Pasadena June 11. In 1933, Hamilton helped initiate the San Dimas experimental forest, a large tract of land in the San Gabriel Mountains that was used for study and experiments of water projects. Hamilton's specialty was effects of rainfaU on native vegetation, especially useful in California because of the mixture of drought and flood. Hamilton died June 8 in Palo Alto, Calif.

Gilliland's oil interests also included Canada, South America, and Turkey. In 1955, with the help of Howard F. Ahmanson and Cypress. Oil he formed Turkish-American Oil which began the first oil exploration in Turkey by an outside interest since World War I. Gilliland moved his operations to the Santa Maria Valley in 1960, and was active in oil exploration and ranching.

Gilliland, 78, who had been suffering from cancer, died June 11 at his home in Santa Maria. -PAUL ESCOBAR Robert James Bernard 1961-62 and executive director from 1963-67. Bernard's involvement with colleges continued to his death. He had just completed work on his book, "An Unfinished Dream: Chronicle of the Group Plan." The book describes his 60 years with the colleges and will be published In August DANA KENNEDY I ft WUSStf Lit The former president of the Claremont University Center and Graduate School and founding trustee of Claremont Men's College, Harvey Mudd College and Pitzer College, died June 9 in Claremont at the age of 87. Robert James Bernard was one of the principal architects of the group plan at The Claremont Colleges, a cluster of Pomona College, Claremont Graduate School, Scripps College, Claremont Men's College, Harvey Mudd College and Pitzer College.

Born in Ohio in 1894, Bernard moved to Los Angeles in 1914 and entered Pomona College as a sophomore the following year, graduating in 1917. 46-Year Career Bernard's career at Claremont spanned a period of 46 years, beginning with his appointment as assistant to President James A. Blaisdell in 1917 and concluding with his retirement from Claremont University Center in 1963. Following his retirement, Bernard continued to participate on numerous boards and committees. Bernard was the catalyst in the Oscar M.

Lazrus, 93, who came to the United States from Romania when he was 2 and became a lawyer and co-founder of Benrus Watch Co. In 1972, when he was national secretary of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, Lazrus marked his 85th birthday by donating $100,000 to establish a center for inter-religious affairs. He and his brothers, Benjamin and Ralph, founded Benrus in 1923 and they remained active until the firm was sold in the 1960s. In New York City on June 5. Charles Gorman, 43, whose 1974 excavations in Thailand uncovered bronze items dating from 3600 BC.

The discoveries were 600 years older than similar items found in the Middle East, forcing scholars to rethink theories on the birthplace of the Bronze Age and the history of technology in general. Most recently he had been an archeologist at the University of Pennsylvania. In Sacramento, on June 7 of Crowdus Baker, 75, former president of Sears, Roebuck who began with the nation's largest retail firm as a clerk in the mail-order branch in 1929. He successively managed catalogue centers in Boston, Philadelphia and Seattle and Founder of an Experimental Forest Climatologist Everett Levasseur Hamilton, co-founder of the San Di-mas experimental forest, has died at the age of 85. Hamilton was a forester and environmentalist who participated in one of the first surveys of the Grand Canyon in 1917.

After graduation from college he moved to Arizona where he worked for the U.S. Forest Service on timber sale and range management.