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Died. Harold Bell Wright, 72, master of the simple, sentimental, best-selling novel; in La Jolla, Calif. Farm hand, hobo, artist, house painter, lastly preacher, Wright began his writing career in 1899 after a rival clergyman convinced him that his sermons should be published, shortly turned his talents to sugaring the moralistic pill with mystery, intrigue, romance. For 21 novels (15 movies), his manly men and womanly women fought cleanly, loved truly against a backdrop of raptly described scenic grandeur. The two most famed novels: The Shepherd of the Hills (1907), 1,250,000 copies; The Winning of Barbara Worth...
Died. Yandell Henderson, 70, professor emeritus of physiology at Yale; of an intestinal ailment; in La Jolla, Calif. Dr. Henderson was instrumental in the repeal of the 18th Amendment, told Congress in 1932 that it was impossible to get drunk on 4% beer...
...COBB LE BARON La Jolla, Calif...
SIXTY-NINE DIAMONDS - Jeremy Lord -Crime Club ($2). Retired Col. Winston Creevy, arriving in La Jolla, Calif, for fun, can't keep his old British beak out of the murder of M. Duval, an unctuous Belgian with a past in the West End. In London the Yard detects furiously by cable. Creevy's end of it is subtler, and finely handled...
Professor Clark, who has been Master of the House since 1935 and occupied a chair in Sanskrit since 1927, will be on sabbatical leave for the first six months. He will spend most of the time at La Jolla in Southern California where he intends to continue work...