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Died. Margaret Clapp, 64, for 17 years president of her alma mater, Wellesley College; of cancer; in Tyringham, Mass. Clapp won a Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for her Columbia University Ph.D. thesis, a biography of 19th century Editor John Bigelow. One year later, as an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, she was tapped for the presidency of the venerable women's college. An advocate of well-balanced liberal arts education, she resigned in 1966 to head tiny Lady Doak College in Madurai, India, a country she had never seen. She later became Minister-Counselor of Public Affairs...
...Howard, 48, topflight U. S. playwright (The Silver Cord, Alien Corn, Yellow Jack), cinemadapter (Bull Dog Drummond, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth), son-in-law of Conductor Walter Damrosch; when a tractor he was cranking lurched forward, pinned and crushed him against a garage wall; on his 700-acre farm near Tyringham, Mass. Born in Oakland, Calif, (where three brothers still live), Sidney Howard used to say that he "grew up in a mess of books . . . fumbled around for some kind of artistic expression." His fumbling took him to the University of California (where he wrote plays), to George Pierce Baker...
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