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Miss Lillian, whose fancies included baseball, TV soap operas and a nightly tot of bourbon, had no regrets when her son was defeated by Ronald Reagan in 1980. "I never did like the White House," she asserted. "It was boring." According to those close to her, Miss Lillian's spirits remained high even after a 1981 mastectomy failed to halt the spread of cancer. But in September, after the death of her daughter Evangelist Ruth Carter Stapleton, "she sort of gave up," said a friend. Miss Lillian's unpretentious graveside service in Plains—attended by some 300 mourners including such former Carter Administration figures as Hamilton Jordan, Bert Lance and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young—lasted less than four minutes. "Well, that's what she wanted, short and simple," commented a neighbor leaving the cemetery. "Yep," said another. "And she usually got her way." -
SENTENCED. Frances Bernice Schreuder, 45, New York City socialite, to life in prison for plotting the murder of her millionaire father in 1978; in Salt Lake City. Her son Marc, now 22, testified that she had coaxed him into killing Franklin Bradshaw, 76, so she would not be cut out of his will.
DIED. Leonard Schapiro, 75, influential British expert on Soviet affairs; following a stroke; in London. A professor at the London School of Economics, he wrote The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1959), still considered the definitive exposition of how the party works.
DIED. Farrell Dobbs, 76, Trotskyist and labor leader who designed a key organizing strategy for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters; in Pinole, Calif. After being involved in a series of bloody truckers' strikes in Minneapolis in 1934, Dobbs helped set the union on the road to unifying its local fiefdoms by recruiting long-haul drivers, who had previously been ignored by labor organizers. In 1941, after leaving the Teamsters to work full time for the Socialist Workers Party, he was convicted of advocating the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government and served 16 months in prison. He ran for President on the Socialist Workers ticket four times from 1948 to 1960.