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Died. Sir Henry Fielding ("Mr. Harry") Dickens, K. C., 84, British jurist, onetime (1917-32; Common Serjeant of the City of London, sixth son, tenth and last surviving child of Charles Dickens; of injuries suffered last fortnight when he was struck by a motorcycle; in a shabby municipal hospital where he was taken after the accident. Unlike his father's "Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz" and "Mr. Serjeant Snubbin" he was rated a kindly judge...
Married. Gary Cooper, 32, film actor, son of a Helena, Mont, jurist; and Veronica Balfe (Sandra Shaw), 20, film actress, of Manhattan; in Manhattan...
Died. Robert William Chambers, 68, novelist, painter, angler, hunter, collector of butterflies, armor and Japanese art; after an intestinal operation; in Manhattan. Son of a Brooklyn jurist, he studied art in Paris, drew sketches for Life, Vogue, began to write. Critics, impressed by The King in Yellow, his second book, were disappointed when he began turning out two perfumed and aseptic romances a year. (Total production: 60 novels.) "Literature! The word makes me sick!" he snorted. His painstaking historical research was largely lost on his millions of readers (Ashes of Empire, Cardigan). He was the first U. S. author...
Donald Richberg, eaglophile counsel of the NRA, promptly pooh-poohed this blunt setback: "The judge's remarks on the alleged unconstitutionality of the Recovery Act itself obviously do not carry any legal weight, since they were expressive of the jurist's personal view and did not constitute a ruling on a point...
Died, James Arnold Lowell. 64, Federal district judge at Boston, cousin of Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell; of pneumonia following erysipelas; at his home in Newton, Mass. Bostonians knew him as the white-thatched, twinkly-eyed jurist who wore flashy ties and waistcoats, waved to his friends from the bench, admitted Russian refugees into the U. S. and conscientious objectors to citizenship, called Uncle Sam a "sneaking cur" for letting Prohibition agents tap wires. The entire nation heard of him when he temporarily halted the extradition of a Negro charged with murder in Virginia on the ground...