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Lennox ended a four-year career as a medical missionary in Peking, returned to the U.S. to study the disease, about which he found "an element of fear and hopelessness that was shocking." By 1951 the girl had herself become a top physician in the fight on epilepsy, and Dr. Lennox could report that "with new methods and medicines, three-fourths of the sufferers can be relieved of three-fourths of their seizures, and many are completely relieved." Died. Lillian Sefton Thomas Dodge, 80, one of the original boss ladies of U.S. business, longtime president of cosmetics maker Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Inc., who took over on the death of her first husband (Vincent B. Thomas) in 1918, became in 1937 the nation's highest-paid ($100,000) woman executive, sold out to Lever Brothers in 1947; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.
Died. Constance Adams DeMille, 87, publicity-shunning wife of Hollywood's late great showman, Cecil B. DeMille; of pneumonia ; in Hollywood. An actress over the protests of her New Jersey judge father, she married DeMille in 1902, two years after they had met in the cast of the Charles Frohman melodrama, Hearts Are Trumps, trouped with him for several years before he entered producing and theater management. In 1913, when DeMille gave up the stage altogether for moviemaking, she told him, "Do what you think right and I will be with you" — she was for almost 57 years until his death last year, a record of sorts for Hollywood.
Died. Edward Francis McGrady, 88, shrewd, head-banging labor-relations expert and strike-settling Government troubleshooter in both world wars, an F.D.R. crony who became a take-charge Assistant Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1937 (once provoking Boss Frances Perkins to snort, "Now, now, Mr. McGrady, I'm the Secretary of Labor"); of advanced cerebral artery disease; in Newtonville, Mass. A onetime Harvard College boxing instructor, newspaper pressman, Massachusetts state legislator and A.F.L. Washington lobbyist (1919-33), McGrady left fulltime Government service in 1937 to become an RCA vice president, stayed on as a director until last year.
Died. The Right Rev. Edward Lambe Parsons, 92, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of California from 1924 until retirement in 1941, outspoken advocate of uniting the Episcopal and Presbyterian churches; after being ill with pneumonia; in San Francisco.