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Died. Edwin Arlington Robinson, 65, poet, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner (Collected Poems in 1921, The Man Who Died Twice in 1925, Tristram in 1927); after long illness; in Manhattan. Maine-born, he went to Harvard, was a mediocre student, left at the end of his sophomore year because of family financial reverses. Publishing his first volume, The Torrent and the Night Before, at his own expense in 1896, Robinson went to Manhattan, became a porter in a Yonkers saloon, later a timekeeper on a subway construction job. His long poem "Captain Craig" attracted the attention of Theodore Roosevelt who offered him first a consulship in Mexico, then a sinecure, which Robinson held for four years, in the New York Customs House. Once established as a top-flight craftsman, austere, cerebral but passionate, he continued to live frugally and obscurely, doing much of his writing in a Manhattan attic near the East River and at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. A painfully shy bachelor, he liked billiards, Gilbert & Sullivan. His most quoted short poems were "Miniver Cheevy," "Richard Corey." Others: "Merlin," "Lancelot," "Roman Bartho-low," "Cavender's House," "Matthias at the Door."
Died. Adolph Ochs, 77, publisher of the New York Times; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Chattanooga, Tenn. (see p. 58).