Monday, Dec. 04, 1950

Killed In Action. Second Lieut. John C. Trent, 24, of Memphis, end and captain of Army's unbeaten 1949 football squad, second West Point football captain to die in the Korean war*; on Nov. 15, three days after landing at Wonsan.

Died. William Jennings Miller, 51, wheel-chaired Republican Congressman from Connecticut (1939-41, 43-45, 47-49), who lost both legs after a World War I airplane smashup,/- devoted much of his career to veterans' benefits; after long illness; in Wethersfield, Conn.

Died. Alva Johnston, 62, oldtime reporter (The New York Times and Herald Tribune), one of the best magazine writers (The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post), contemporary biographer (The Great Goldwyn; The Case of Erie Stanley Gardner), 1922 Pulitzer Prizewinner (for popularizing the esoteric proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science); of a cerebral thrombosis; in Bronxville, N.Y.

Died. Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, 77, Denmark's leading man of letters; in Copenhagen. Author of 60-odd books and reams of essays, Jensen was most famous for The Long Journey, a massive fictional history of primitive man, won a Nobel Prize in 1944. He was seldom translated and thus little known outside Denmark, where he was a bestseller (The Long Journey did not appear in full in the U.S. until 1945).

Died. Sir Archibald Dennis Flower, 85, who made a career of memorializing Shakespeare; in Stratford upon Avon. As chairman (since 1900) of the Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare's Birthplace and of the town's Shakespeare Memorial Theater (1900-46), Sir Archibald hoped to keep the theater pure and local ("Visiting stars? Over my dead body!"), surrendered to professionalism in 1946 when outside Shakespearian actors were brought in as guests.

*First: Lieut. (and Quarterback) Thomas A. Lombardo, '45. /- Not to be confused with Nebraska's Representative (since 1943) Arthur Lewis Miller, also legless, no kin.

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