Died. Augustus Goetz, 56, playwright, collaborator with his wife Ruth since their marriage (in 1930) on adaptations (Andre Gide's The Immoralist, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, and, most successfully, The Heiress from Henry James's Washington Square); of a heart ailment, after long illness; in Manhattan.
Died. Josephine Lyons Scott Pinckney, 62, South Carolina poet (Sea-Drinking Cities) and novelist (1945's bestselling Three 0'Clock Dinner); of respiratory infection complications; in Manhattan.
Died. Walter Duranty, 73, bald, wooden-legged (from a 1924 train wreck), Pulitzer Prizewinning (1932) New York Times foreign correspondent (1913-39), novelist (One Life, One Kopeck),...
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