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Died. Gloria Dickson, 27, blond cinemactress who made one long leap from the 1937 Federal Theater Project to Hollywood stardom (They Won't Forget}, then never quite fulfilled the critics' bright hopes; of suffocation when her home was gutted by fire; in Hollywood...
Killed in Action. Army Air Forces Captain Jefferson Davis Dickson, 47, one-time "Tex Rickard of Europe" who won fame and fortune when he built big, bumbling Primo Camera into an international attraction; in an air battle over France last July (not announced until last week...
...pink, diffident freshman watched these doings. Eighteen-year-old Malcolm Dickson had no jumping experience. Fired with ambition, he gave a great leap, cleared the seventh step with so much to spare that he fell on his face...
...WOULDN'T KILL PATIENCE- Carter Dickson - Morrow ($2). A variation, with herpetological trimmings, on the time-honored "sealed room" puzzle. Sir Henry Merrivale is the gustily amusing detective, and two young magicians supply a Montague-and-Capulet romance and divulge some interesting secrets of their craft. The solution of the central problem is disgustingly simple, but takes a deal of guessing...
Missing in Action. Air Forces Captain Jefferson Davis ("Jeff") Dickson Jr., 47, Europe's No. 1 prewar sports promoter; in air action over Germany. Mississippi farm boy Dickson went to France in 1917 as a U.S. Army cameraman, after the war bought a Paris boxing arena, in 1931 built Paris' Madison Square Garden-inspired Palais des Sports...