Died. The Maharaja of Bikaner, 48, one of India's wealthiest princes, ardent big-game hunter; of a heart ailment; in Chertsey, England. In 1947 Bikaner helped arrange the settlement by which the rulers of India's Princely States surrendered their sovereign powers, kept their titles, prerogatives and private incomes.
Died. Ralph Emerson Weeks, 72, longtime (1916-49) president of International Correspondence Schools ("You Too Can Succeed"), oldest and biggest (more than 5,000,000 students* since its founding in 1891) of U.S. education-by-mail establishments; in Scranton, Pa.
Died. William E. Woodward, 75, who turned to writing at 46 after a prosperous career in advertising and public relations, coined the word "debunk"† in his best-selling first novel Bunk, won fame & fortune as a debunking biographer (George Washington, Meet General Grant, Lafayette) ; in Augusta, Ga.
Died. Lawrence York Spear, 79, naval architect, board chairman (president 1942-47) of Electric Boat Co.; in New London, Conn. At the turn of the century he fell in love with the submarine, then a crude but promising novelty, resigned from the Navy to join Electric Boat Co., which, as designer and executive, he helped make the biggest builder of U.S. submarines in both World Wars.
Died. Mrs. Henry Ford, 83, widow of the automan; in Detroit. Daughter of a Michigan farmer whose land adjoined the Fords', Clara Bryant married Henry Ford on her 21st birthday (he was 24), kept up his hopes during the trying years of nursing along the "mechanical buggy" ("The Believer" he often called her).
Died. Mrs. Charles B. Knox, 92, who took over her husband's tiny gelatine company when he died in 1908, made it a model middling-big business; in Johnstown, N.Y. Folksy Mrs. Knox's own story: "I just used common sense."
Died. Stephen Olney Metcalf, 93, Rhode Island multimillionaire (woolen textiles, insurance), longtime (1905-41) president of the Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin, brother of onetime (1924-36) U.S. Senator Jesse Houghton Metcalf (died 1942); in Providence.
*Including Inventor John C. Garand, Shipbuilder Andrew Jackson Higgins, British Cartoonist David Low (he studied cartooning), the C.I.O.'s Philip Murray, Airman Eddie Rickenbacker.
†Suggested, Woodward explained, by the World War I neoterism "de-louse." "Bunk" (from "make a speech for Buncombe," as Representative Felix Walker of Buncombe County, N.C. did in Congress in 1820), had already been current for at least half a century.