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Died. Thomas Sterling, 79, Washington attorney, onetime (1901-1910) dean of South Dakota University's College of Law, Republican Senator from South Dakota from 1913 until 1925; after a heart attack, in Washington.
Died. Heywood Cox Broun, 80, one-time printer (Broun, Green & Adams), onetime associate of Thomas McMullin & Co. (bottlers of Guiness stout and White Label bass ale), for the past ten years a Manhattan stockbroker (Reynolds, Fish & Co.), British-born father of Heywood Campbell Broun, colyumist for the New York Telegram and Socialist candidate for Congress; after a paralytic stroke, at St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan. After some reflection Colyumist Broun wrote a colyum about his father. Excerpts:
"It seemed to me unsatisfactory that a man of long life should have his existence summed up to some extent as 'the father of the newspaper columnist.' . . .
"My father was an ardent National Guardsman and at one time among the four or five crack rifle shots in the entire country. When I was a child the house was filled with gold and silver medals as tokens of this prowess. And I, his son, am a fanatical pacifist and have never so much as fired a gun in my life. . . .
"I take pride in the fact that my father was a gay man, that he liked to give and receive parties. For many years after he was well past 70 we kept, with all the ardor of a religious rite, a cocktail hour."
Died. William Archibald Spooner, 86, oldtime classics scholar at Oxford University, onetime honorable canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, editor of a once-famed text, The Histories of Tacitus, originator of "Spoonerisms"; at New College, Oxford. Typical "Spoonerisms":
"A half-warmed fish within your breast."
"Hissing my mystery lectures."
"Fighting liars in the quadrangle."
"Is it kistomary to cuss the bride?"
"Three cheers for our queer old dean."
"See the cattleships and bruisers."