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Died. Eino Rudolf Woldemar Holsti, 63, able Finnish statesman, who as Foreign Minister reaffirmed "good neighbor" relations with Russia in 1937, as delegate to the League of Nations obtained Russia's expulsion for her attack in 1939; after an abdominal operation; in Palo Alto, Calif. Dr. Holsti saved his country from starvation after World War I by a successful appeal to Herbert Hoover for food. When Nazi domination of Finnish affairs sent him packing in 1940 he found refuge as a professor at Hoover's Stanford University. Generally credited for Finland's prompt war-debt payments...
Died. Charles Gilman Norris, 64, sociological novelist whose unfailingly topical themes included women in business (Bread), birth control (Seed), radical youth (Bricks Without Straw); of a heart ailment; in Palo Alto, Calif. Brother of the late Author Frank Norris, he was the husband of Author Kathleen Norris, who was in many ways his exact opposite number: she was an America Firster, a Democrat, Catholic and dry, he a rousing interventionist, Republican, Episcopalian and dispenser of highballs to their ranch guests...
Crescent's Morden and Ertegun, who are putting out a 1,200-disc reissue this week, have enthusiastic plans for new Ory recordings this spring. Meanwhile the Kid, already expert on the five-string banjo, guitar, alto saxophone, trumpet and bass, is taking piano lessons. Mulling over his future, he concluded: "Now that I've got me a good Dixieland band, I'm going to try and play as long as I hold...
...Golfer of Golfers ends his vacation next month, he will start on a new, part-time job as vice president and good-will salesman for Toledo's Haas-Jordon Co., makers of umbrellas. He is no green hand at selling. Ty Cobb once invited him to his Palo Alto home, hoping for an expert golf lesson, instead found himself teaching Nelson how to slide into second base...
Died. Ann Clare Brokaw, 19, daughter of Connecticut Representative Clare Boothe Luce and Henry R. Luce; in an automobile accident in Palo Alto, Calif. A senior in Stanford University, majoring in political science and philosophy, she was on her way with a classmate to register for her last term. Congresswoman Luce was in California to spend her vacation with her daughter before proceeding on a speaking tour...