Milestones: Oct. 29, 1928

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Died. Jack Dunn, owner and manager of the Baltimore Orioles, perennial champions of the International Baseball League; of heart disease while viewing from the saddle the trial of his dog Bell the Devil at Townson, Md. Dunn developed George Herman Ruth, Carl Mays, many another rough-in-the-diamond.

Died. Frances Newman, 40, author of The Hard-boiled Virgin; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. Frank Gifford Drew, 56, chairman of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., and director of nearly a dozen other companies; when his automobile hit a telephone pole and overturned near Toms River, N. J.

Died. Lew Wallace, 70, Indianapolis barrister, nephew of the late General Lew Wallace, Hoosier author of Ben Hur; from a heart attack; in Indianapolis. Barrister Wallace's father was a law partner of President Benjamin Harrison. Ovid Butler, one of Barrister Wallace's grandfathers, founded Indiana's Butler University; Grandfather David Wallace was once Indiana's Governor.

Died. James Walter Thompson, 81, famed Manhattan adman; in Manhattan (see p. 40).

Died. Rev. Frederick William MacDonald, 86, Wesleyan divine of Bournemouth, England, uncle to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Poet Rudyard Kipling, the late Painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones; in Bournemouth.

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