Milestones, Sep. 15, 1952

Died. Gertrude Lawrence, 54, star of musicomedy (Lady in the Dark, The King and /-) and screen (Rembrandt, The Glass Menagerie); of cancer; in Manhattan (see THEATER).

Death Revealed. Francis Xavier Ford, 60, Maryknoll Bishop in China's Kwangtung province and missionary since 1918; after a year of Communist prison treatment; in Canton last Feb. 21 (see RELIGION).

Died. Gilbert Wolf Gabriel, 62, drama critic of Cue magazine, president of the New York Drama Critics Circle, novelist (/, James Lewis, I Thee Wed) and first writer of The New Yorker "Profiles" department; of a heart...

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