Died. Rex Ingram*(real name: Rex Hitchcock), 58, Irish-born director of such famed silent movies as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (which made Rudolph Valentino a star) and The Prisoner of Zenda (which made Ramon Novarro a star); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood.

Died. Carl Van Doren,/- 64, journeyman of letters; of a heart ailment complicated by pneumonia; in Torrington, Conn. Onetime teacher (Columbia), headmaster (Manhattan's fashionable Brearley School) and editor, he wrote a dozen volumes of literary studies and criticism, three Revolutionary War histories, a Pulitzer Prizewinning (1939) biography of Benjamin Franklin, an autobiography (Three Worlds), a novel (The Ninth Wave), short stories and introductions to scores of old & new books.

Died. Hartley Clyde Myrick, 65, onetime sourdough who went north at 13, played the piano in Gold Rush saloons, was identified up & down the Yukon with "the kid that handles the music-box"** in Robert W. Service's The Shooting of Dan McGrew; of cancer; in Seattle.

Died. Shigenori Togo, 67, Japanese career diplomat who became Foreign Minister seven weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor; of a heart attack and internal ailments; in Tokyo. Tried as a war criminal in 1948, he insisted that he had opposed Premier Hideki Tojo's expansionist policies, but was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.

Died. William Lyon Mackenzie King, 75, for 21 years Prime Minister of Canada ; in Kingsmere, Que. (see THE HEMISPHERE).

Died. Sir Herbert Atkinson Barker, 81, self-styled "manipulative surgeon" whose skill in repairing dislocated joints and stiff knees with his fingers brought him fame, fortune, knighthood and--after the orthodox had long spurned him as a degreeless bonesetter--professional recognition; in Lancaster, England.

Died. Robert Smythe Hichens, 85, author of The Paradine Case, 50-odd other novels; in Zurich, Switzerland. A turn-of-the-century favorite (The Garden of Allah, 1904, sold nearly a million copies), Novelist Hichens turned out fiction that earned him a comfortable income long after he had lost the bestselling touch.

*Not to be confused with Actor Rex ("De

Lawd") Ingram (The Green Pastures).

/-Other literary Van Dorens: brother Mark,

poet-professor; ex-wife Irita, editor of the New

York Herald Tribune Book Review.

**A bunch of the boys were whooping it up

in the Malamute saloon; The kid that handles the music-box

was hitting a jag-time tune . . .

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