Upheld. The right of the State of New Jersey to levy a $12,247,000 inheritance tax on the $115,000,000 estate of President John Thompson Dorrance of Campbell Soup Co.; in New Jersey's Court of Errors & Appeals, after five years of litigation. Because New Jersey's Soupman Dorrance several years before his death bought a home in Radnor, Pa., his executors have already paid Pennsylvania $15,-000,000 in inheritance taxes.

Awarded. To Brooklyn Matador Sidney Franklin: a $7,000 judgment against Columbia Pictures Corp., whose cinema Throwing the Bull used his name in a "jeering, jocular and undignified manner'' (TIME, Dec. 31, 1934); by the New York State Court of Appeals, in Albany.

Died. Thomas Francis Curtin Jr., 22, captain and second baseman of Yale's baseball team, after a three-month fight against leukopenia (shortage of white blood corpuscles), during which he had 21 blood transfusions; in Pittsfield, Mass.

Died, Lawrence Henry Rupp, 54, past (1930-31) Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, onetime (1919-20) chairman of Pennsylvania's Democratic committee; after a long illness, in Allentown, Pa.

Died. Milo Reno, 70, tireless, belligerent Iowa farm strike leader, head of the National Farmers' Holiday Association (TIME, Aug. 29, 1932 et seq.); of a heart attack following influenza and pneumonia; in Excelsior Springs, Mo.

Died. Ethel Dickens, 71, spinster granddaughter of Novelist Charles Dickens; from an overdose of a sleeping potion; in London.

Died. George Henry Dickinson, 75, famed oldtime newsman, once managing editor of the New York Telegram, chief of the New York Journal's field bureau during the Spanish-American War; penniless, in Manhattan. For years his onetime reporters helped support him.

Died. Alfred Edward Housman, 77, famed English poet; in Cambridge, England. Known to his University as a typical don. prim, silent, conventional, learned; to scholars for his masterly editing of minor Latin Poets (Manilius. Juvenal, Lucan) and his blasting criticisms of slipshod predecessors; he was known to the world for his two thin books of verse. A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems. Published 26 years apart, their lucid pessimism and classic simplicity made him one of the most popular, most quotable poets of modern times. A stoical poet who wrote his verse as a bitter antidote to the poison of sentimentality, he put down his own epitaph in the lines,

I tell the tale that I heard told. Mithridates, he died old.

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