Monday, Feb. 01, 1932

Died. Dr. Eugene Chellis Glover, 29, able cancer researcher; of cyanide poisoning while experimenting; in the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory of the Boston City Hospital. He was studying the relation to cancer of certain fats called lipoids. In transferring a cyanide solution, some, it is presumed, dropped on his hand, was later wiped off on his mouth. He was found unconscious in a corridor, died an hour later. Died. Giles Lytton Strachey, 51, biographer (Eminent Victorians, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth and Essex, Portraits in Miniature); of ulcerative colitis; in Inkpen, Berkshire, England. Born to a world of letters, he dallied with, poetry at Trinity College, Cambridge, then sharpened his phrases for several years on French literature, to which he devoted his first and little known book. With mild maliciousness he turned to the Victorian Age, "an age of barbarism and prudery ... in which . . . the outlines were tremendous . . . the details sordid. . . ." Later, with amused detachment, he conjured up Elizabeth. In Portraits in Miniature he selected such piquant souls as Sir John Harington. who, "suddenly inspired," invented the water-closet. Spindle-shanked, bespectacled, reclusive, with a long red beard and a high falsetto voice, he was the point of many a pundit's quip.* Died. Paul Moritz Warburg, 63, famed banker, board chairman of The Manhattan Co. and (also founder) the International Acceptance Bank; of hypostatic pneumonia after a long illness; in Manhattan. Member of a potent Hamburg banking family (M. M. Warburg & Co., founded 1798), he married Nina, daughter of Solomon Loeb of Kuhn. Loeb & Co., became a partner, like his brother Felix, when he emigrated to the U. S. in 1902. He was a chief architect of the Federal Reserve System, nurtured it as a member of its first board. He became its most outspoken critic in 1929 for failing to hold clown inflation, and, last year, its historian. Typical of many a eulogy last week was Owen D. Young's: "Commercial banking, both at home and abroad, had no leader of greater skill or understanding." Died. William Vallandigham Kelley, 70, board chairman of Miehle Printing Press & Manufacturing Co.; of heart disease ; in Chicago. He financed the eastern Asia expedition of the Brothers Roosevelt (Theodore and Kermit), for the Field Museum of Natural History in 1928. Died. Dr. James Gore King McClure, 83, president emeritus of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Chicago, and greatly beloved divine; after a lingering illness; in Lake Forest, Ill.

*Seated at dinner beside a young, twittering debutante, he ate three courses without speaking. She, awed by her famed companion, finally nerved herself to ask, "What do you consider the most important thing in life, Mr. Strachey?" From behind the red bush of his beard came the high, squeaky chirp, "Passion.''

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