Sydney R. Marovitz, 78, Chicago attorney for more than 50 years and commissioner emeritus of the Chicago Park District, where he had been a member of the district board (1974-86); he was the father of State Sen. William Marovitz (D., Chicago) and brother of senior U.S. District Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz; he was a founder and former executive vice president of the George and Anna Portes Cancer Prevention Center and a founder of the Bernard Horwich Jewish Community Center; April 2, in his Chicago home, of cancer.
Harold T. P. Hayes, 62, a former editor of Esquire magazine who nurtured the novelistic and experimental new journalism of the 1960s; he oversaw the new journalism in Esquire, beginning with an impressionistic account by Norman Mailer of the Democratic National Convention in 1960; Tom Wolfe, Tom Morgan, Truman Capote and James Baldwin wrote highly praised work in the magazine at that time; he joined Esquire in 1956 and became managing editor in 1960 and editor in 1964; in 1973 he resigned in a dispute with Arnold Gingrich, the publisher; April 5, in Los Angeles, of a brain tumor.
Pinchas H. Peli, 59, Israeli rabbi and professor whose books, essays and lectures placed him among the world`s most popular contemporary Jewish scholars; he was a professor of Jewish studies and chairman of the department of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba and was a visiting professor at Yeshiva University in New York, Notre Dame University, Cornell University and the Makuya Bible Seminary in Japan; April 3, in Jerusalem, of cancer complicated by pneumonia.
Samuel Robert Shaw, 78, retired Marine Corps brigadier general who was an adviser to President John F. Kennedy on the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and to the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Vietnam War; in World War II he served in the Pacific and had assignments with the 6th Marine Division in China; he also served in Korea during the war there and later commanded the Marine Landing Force Amphibious Training Unit in Coronado, Calif.; April 4, in a hopital at Ft. Belvoir, Va.
Henry C. Swift Bush, 90, U.S. diplomat for 20 years who began his service with the State Department in Budapest, Hungary, serving there nine years before being transferred to Berlin, where he remained until World War II; he later was an adviser to then-Gen. Dwight Eisenhower in England; after retiring, he worked with the Railroad Retirement Board in Indianapolis until 1965; April 1, in Indianapolis.
John G. Gilbert, former Illinois state senator (1961-73); a former member of the state Board of Higher Education and, for a time, chairman of the Senate Education Committee, he was credited with helping to build Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; April 7, in Carbondale.
Woody Crumbo, 77, renowned American Indian artist who was a former director of art at Bacone College in Muskogee, Okla., and instrumental in getting the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa, Okla., to sponsor the first national Indian art show in 1944; April 4, in Cimarron, N.M.
Dr. Jan Aleksander Rajchman, 80, electronics expert whose work led to the development of high-speed computer memory systems; he was a former director of research and a former vice president for data processing at the RCA Corp. laboratories in Princeton, N.J., and was also responsible for technical direction at RCA labs in Zurich and Tokyo; April 1, in the Princeton Medical Center.
Isadore C. Friedman, 91, Chicago industrialist who was founder and chairman emeritus of the Skokie-headquartered Everco Industries Inc., a national leader in manufacturing automotive replacement parts; a native of Russia, he came to Chicago in the early part of the century; he cofounded Federal Auto Products Co. (1928), which began making steel valve caps for inner tubes; among other auto parts it now makes are replacement hubcaps, heater products and cooling system and air conditioning parts; April 1, in Palm Springs, Calif.
Irina Moore, 82, widow of Henry Moore, regarded as the greatest living sculptor when he died in August, 1986, at age 88; born Irina Radetzky, she was a Russian emigre born in Kiev; she was an art student when she met Moore in 1928; April 4, in her home in Much Hadham, near Cambridge, England.
Lady Paula Wilms Henderson, 82, widow of British diplomat Sir Malcolm Henderson; reared in Chicago, she graduated from Chicago Latin School and was active in the Junior League; her husband was a vice consul in Chicago when they married in 1932; her husband then began a whirlwind tour in the British diplomatic corps that saw them living in 27 homes in 30 years; among his posts were the ambassadorships in Luxembourg, Uruguay and Austria; April 2, in London.
Dr. John Franklin Kenward, 75, psychiatrist and associate professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Pediatrics in the University of Chicago`s Pritzker School of Medicine; he was a noted expert on the psychosomatic disorders of children; he founded and directed the university`s Child Psychiatry Clinic (now, the Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry); April 3, in Scottsdale, Ariz., following a series of heart attacks.
Lawrence Pope, 70, who went from bank president to bank robber and later became a prison reform activist; he started his banking industry career in the 1930s as an office boy at a Dallas bank and eventually became president of West (Tex.) National Bank, 65 miles south of Dallas; after he was eased out of the job, he thought his banking partners had cheated him, and he began robbing banks in 1960; he was arrested in November, 1960, and sentenced to 50 years in prison; he served 21 before he was paroled in June, 1982, during which time he filed an estimated 200 lawsuits, most on behalf of other inmates; April 3, in Austin, Tex.
Carl Jacobs, 71, who was mayor of East Gary, Ind., when it changed its name to Lake Station in 1977; he was a retired Gary police captain and became the first Democratic mayor of East Gary in 1971 and remained mayor until 1979; in 1980 he became Lake County (Ind.) Civil Defense director; April 3, in Lake Station, Ind.
Archibald McG. Foster, 73, a leading figure in the advertising industry for almost 40 years; he was a former chairman of Ted Bates & Co. and helped build that agency into one of the largest advertising concerns in the world;
he began his career as promotion director for Conde Nast Publications in 1940; April 4, in New York.
Joseph J. Gray, 82, industrialist and philanthropist who founded and was chairman of Alloy Manufacturing Co., a Chicago-headquartered firm that manufactures drive-line products used in trucks, automobiles and farm products; he and his wife, Mae, were among founding families of the North Suburban Synagogue Beth El, a major sanctuary of Conservative Judaism, where they endowed a scholarship program and funded the Joseph and Mae Gray Learning and Cultural Center; April 2, in a Northbrook hospital.
Andrea Busiri Vici, 86, architect who with his brother Michele worked on the design of the Italian pavilion at the 1939 World`s Fair in New York;
April 4, in Rome.
