Died. Eugene Jolas, 55, New Jersey-born author, poet, and cofounder
of the avant-garde Paris literary
review transition; of acute nephritis; in Paris. The first to print
James Joyce's Work in Progress ,
transition was also among the first in English with the work of Franz
Kafka and Andre Gide . To such U.S. literary expatriates
of the '205 as Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Hart Crane, Erskine
Caldwell, Kay Boyle, Katherine Anne Porter, Hamilton Basso and William
Carlos Williams—all glad to work in transition's experimental
laboratory—Editor Jolas never paid more than $1 a page . Died. Henry Herschel Brickell, 62, writer , editor
, and for two years
assistant chief of the State Department's Division of
Cultural Cooperation in charge of Latin America; by his own hand
; in Ridgefield, Conn. Died. Albert D. Lasker, 72, advertising man, chairman of the U.S.
Shipping Board after World War I, cofounder with his wife of the Albert
and Mary Lasker Foundation for educational and medical research; of
cancer; in Manhattan . Died. Marie Odet Jean Armand de Chapelle de Jumilhac, 76, Due de
Richelieu, the title conferred by Louis XIII on his Prime Minister,
Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, who passed it on to a grandnephew,
Jean de Vignerot, ancestor of the last Due de Richelieu; after a
month's illness; in Manhattan. Died. Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Tillman Hooks, 78, adopted daughter of Jefferson Davis, President of the
Confederate States of America; in New Orleans. Mrs. Hooks came to live
at Beauvoir, the Davis Gulf Coast home, while her foster father was
writing The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, later married
Henry Hooks, a Texas railroad agent. Died. Captain Robert Huntington, 83, who went to sea at nine as cabin
boy, skippered sailing ships around Cape Horn, and in 1921, from his
small Manhattan radio station , first adopted the call for
medical assistance: MEDICO—a signal which takes precedence over all
other calls at sea except S O S; on Staten Island, N.Y. Died. Dr. John Dewey, 92, renowned American philosopher and educator,
major prophet of progressive education ; of
pneumonia; in Manhattan .
