Milestones, Feb. 4, 1957

Died. William Eythe. 38, cinemactor (The House on 92nd Street) and Broadway actor-producer (Lend an Ear); of acute hepatitis; in Los Angeles.

Died. G. (for Gilbert) Mason Owlett, 64, jowly, mossbacked lieutenant of Pennsylvania's old Republican boss. Senator Joe Grundy, onetime (1933-41) state senator and Republican National Committeeman, who in 1943 took over his mentor's Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association (which for years ran two insurance companies, a dozen state senators and some 50 representatives, held the balance of political power in the state); of a pulmonary embolism; in Philadelphia.

Died. Mamoru Shigemitsu, 69, durable,...

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