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Died. William Ellery Leonard, 68, longtime agoraphobiac, poet (Two Lives), professor of English at the University of Wisconsin; of a heart ailment; in Madison. In his autobiography (The Locomotive God), he revealed that his terror of travel, which kept him locked in a "phobic prison" of five campus blocks, traced back to a roaring locomotive that scared the be-junior out of him when he was two. In 1935 his third wife (Coed Grace Golden) led him out of sight of his home-to walk a fearful eight blocks to Madison's Capitol Square. When she divorced...
...crept through. Edouard Herriot, under strict house arrest in his 72nd year, was very old, very tired. Americans interned at Vittel had a glimpse of him when his Vichy gaolers brought him to a villa in the old watering place. Rumor said that he was suffering from an incurable ailment. One day the jailers hustled him on to Nancy, not far from the German frontier. There, some time in the fall of 1943, death came to Edouard Herriot, but not to his words, not to his memory...
Died. Joseph C. (Crosby) Lincoln, 73, folksy, voluminous Cape Cod-born Cape Cod novelist; of a heart ailment; in Winter Park, Fla. Apple-cheeked son and grandson of sea captains, between his first novel (Cap'n Eri, 1904) and his last (The Bradshaws of Harniss, 1943), he usually summered on the Cape, wintered elsewhere, stub-penciled more than a book a year...
...House"-across the bay from San Francisco. "I have to go East on business, but this has nothing to do with the theater," said the playwright, who during his seven year seclusion at "Tao House" (with his third wife, exactress Carlotta Monterey) has been struggling against a recurring ailment to complete his cycle of seven plays: A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed. No comment by O'Neill was reported on the news that a child was expected in August by his 18-year-old daughter Oona, dark-eyed fourth wife of recently indicted Charles Chaplin (TIME...
Died. John Macrae, 77, since 1923 president of E. P. Dutton & Co. (publishers); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...