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Died. Kenneth Grahame, 72, Scottish writer of children's stories (The Golden Age, The Wind in the Willows); of old age; in Pangbourne, England. For ten years (1898-1908) he was secretary of the Bank of England.
Died. King Camp Gillette, 77, safety razor man; of bladder trouble; in Los Angeles. Retired from active business in 1913, he returned in 1929 when intense competition set in, invented a new razor which his company immediately began producing. Probak Corp., a subsidiary of Henry Jaques Gaisman's AutoStrop Safety Razor Co., produced a blade which exactly fitted the new Gillette. A merger followed, Gillette buying out AutoStrop (TIME, Oct. 27, 1930), ostensibly leaving King Camp Gillette still "razor king.' The real victory went to shrewd Henry Jaques Gaisman.
Died. Katharine Medill McCormick, 79, daughter of Founder Joseph Medill of the Chicago Tribune, widow of U. S. Ambassador Robert Sanderson McCormick (Austria, Russia, France), mother of the late Senator Medill McCormick and of Col. Robert R. McCormick, the Tribune's present editor & publisher; of a lingering illness; in Versailles.
Died, Francis Quarles Story, 86, "father of the Sunkist orange"; of a heart attack; in Alhambra, Calif.
Died. Maria Ward Curley, 92, mother of Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of Baltimore; in Athlone, Ireland.