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Died. Robert Lawson, 64, puckish illustrator and author of children's books (Rabbit Hill, Mr. Twigg's Mistake, Ben and Me), who won fame with his drawings of the retiring bull hero of The Story of Ferdinand (written by Munro Leaf); of a heart attack; in Westport, Conn...
...Throughout the long hours of technical testimony, the clouds of doubt were continuously marshaled by the skilled cross-examination of another kind of expert: Defense Attorney Geoffrey Lawrence, Q.C. A puckish, mousy little man with a mind as orderly as a calculating machine. Barrister Lawrence, specialist in real estate and divorce cases, was a relative stranger in criminal court. In his curled white wig and black silk robe, he lacked entirely the stage color of the traditional defense lawyer; yet almost apologetically he managed to leave witness after witness floundering in confusion...
...Love or Perish, by Smiley Blanton (Simon & Schuster; 164,000 copies sold so far). Puckish Smiley Blanton, 74, has for 19 years spread psychiatric good cheer belowstairs at the Marble Collegiate Church in the clinic which he founded with Dr. Peale and still heads. More than most psychiatrists, he understands that the meaning of love extends beyond the ability to make it. But his book is a hodge-podge of marital, parental and occupational anecdotes...
Died. Howard Brubaker, 74, puckish paragrapher (1925-50) for The New Yorker; of cancer; in Westport, Conn...
Died. Wythe Williams, 74, puckish, pipe-smoking magazine editor and newspaperman, sometime foreign correspondent for the New York World, New York Times. Satevepost (1925-26), chief correspondent (1931-36) for Hearst papers in London, founding president (1939) of Manhattan's Overseas Press Club of America; of cancer; in Jersey City...