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Died. Sir Arthur Keith, 88, top-ranking British anthropologist, director of the surgical experimental station of the Royal College of Surgeons, renowned for his studies in the origins of modern man, and widely criticized in the 1930s for his defense of war as nature's indispensable "pruning hook"; of a stroke; in Downe, England. An ardent believer in Darwinism (which he called "impregnable"), Sir Arthur devoted his lifetime to searching for the missing link between man and the ape, saw man's prehistoric past as justification for his belief that racial prejudice and nationalism "work for the ultimate good of mankind."
Died. Edward R. Pease, 97, last survivor of Britain's original Fabian Society, founded in 1883 to preach the inevitability of socialism without revolution; in Limpsfield, England. Onetime London Stock Exchange Member Pease represented the Fabians at the conference of socialist organizations in 1900 that gave birth to the British Labor Party.