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Died. Emily Price Post, 86, who emerged as the undisputed arbiter of U.S. etiquette ("the science of living") during her long life as a book, newspaper and radio counselor on manners; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Divorced and left with two small sons to support in 1906, Emily turned to writing tinseled novels of high life, was goaded by her publisher in 1922 to turn out Etiquette, the Blue Book of Social Usage. It went into 89 printings, netted her lifetime royalties of about $300 a week. An apt description of Emily Post's career was once supplied by Son Edwin: "Mamma started out writing to tell the new rich how to behave like nice people. Now she is telling the new poor how to be gracious without servants."