Arts: Donn Barber

As it must to all men, Death came to Donn Barber, famed architect. He died last week in Manhattan after suffering for three weeks with tumor of the brain. Although, during this period, a sinister and daily exaggerated swelling of the skull made it clear to him that he was doomed, Mr. Barber, with that unruffled suavity which is the highest manifestation of civilized courage, continued to transact business over the telephone, finished the last details of plans he knew he would never see executed, set his affairs in order.

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