Monday, Jul. 08, 1940

Died. Wilbur Neil Burkhardt, 50, crusading editor of the Scripps-Howard San Francisco News; of injuries received when he jumped from the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge; in San Francisco.

Died. Lady Conan Doyle, 65, widow of Spiritualist-Writer Arthur Conan Doyle (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, etc.) with whom she claimed to have been in communication since his death in 1930; of heart failure after an operation; in London.

Died. Patrick McKenna, 65, bald, bespectacled White House doorkeeper; 37 years to the day after he started ushering during the Theodore Roosevelt Administration ; of a kidney ailment; in Washington.

Died. Ben Turpin. 71, oldtime cinecomedian famed for his incredibly crossed eyes, veteran of many a pie-throwing Keystone Comedy; after long illness; in Hollywood.

Died. Wilhelm Stekel, 72, refugee Viennese psychoanalyst, wayward disciple of Sigmund Freud, author of Nervous Anxiety States, Sadism and Masochism; in London.

Died. Sir Raymond Unwin, 76, famed British town planner; after a two-month illness; in Lyme, Conn. Advocating "satellite" towns to relieve metropolitan congestion. Planner Unwin dubbed skyscrapers "sheer madness."

Died. Paul Drennan Cravath, 78, massive, magisterial corporation lawyer, head of one of the nation's greatest law firms, Cravath, de Gersdorif, Swaine & Wood; of a heart attack; in Locust Valley, L. I. Nearly 55 years ago Paul Cravath, with his yard-wide shoulders, 240 lb., 6 ft. 4 in., was "Cicero'' to his Columbia University Law School classmates, at whose head he stood. In a "dry-goods"' law firm (one partner: Charles Evans Hughes) he pursued insolvent debtors for textile merchants, began acquiring corporations as clients. His first big one was Westinghouse Electric Co. In 1899 Lawyer Cravath joined the firm whose senior partner he became. One of the biggest in the world, it became widely known. Some clients: Bethlehem Steel Corp., R. C. A., Baltimore & Ohio R. R., Kuhn. Loeb & Co., Chemical Bank & Trust Co.. E. R. Squibb & Sons, Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., Studebaker Corp. In later years, Lawyer Cravath rarely tried a case or wrote a brief, but engineered some notable reorganizations: Westinghouse, Missouri Pacific R. R., Interborough Rapid Transit Co. A globetrotter, diner-out, music-lover (he became chairman of the Metropolitan Opera in 1931), Paul Cravath served in many a public enterprise, was decorated for his part in World War I missions.

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