Milestones: Jul. 19, 1963

Died. David Ellington Snodgrass, 68, peppery dean of San Francisco's Hastings College of Law who took on the rundown school in 1940, made it a policy to hire only teachers older than 65, snagged so many sprightly deans emeriti forced out of other schools by retirement rules that Hastings today rates as one of the country's top law schools; following heart surgery; in San Francisco.

Died. Jack ("Doc") Kearns, 80, boxing promoter behind six world champions, among them Mickey Walker, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, but none so great —or lucrative—as Jack Dempsey, whom Kearns met in 1917, within two years brought to...

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