Killed in Action. Lieut. Wells Lewis, 27, sandy-haired son of Sinclair Lewis (by his first wife, now Mrs. Grace Hegger Casanova of Manhattan), himself a novelist (They Still Say No); in France.

Died. Georges Suarez, 48, first-tried, first-convicted prominent French collaborationist, onetime editor of Aujourd'hui (TIME. Nov. 6); before a firing squad; in Paris.

Died. George David Birkhoff, 60, famed Harvard mathematician, proponent of the "Perfect Fluid" four-dimensional theory of gravitation (alternative to Einstein's); of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass.

Died. Edward James McNamara, 60, jovial actors' actor; of a heart attack; in Boston. A Paterson (N.J.) policeman and baritone, Mac toured the" U.S. with Schumann-Heink, was one of Caruso's few pupils. In Broadway's Strictly Dishonorable, he was typed for all time as Patrolman Mulligan, ad-libbed two of the play's best lines. When Muriel Kirkland observed that she thought policemen never drank, Mac remarked, "It only seems like never," later made his exit promising to use his nightstick "only in case of a tie."

Died. Mehmet Munir Ertegun, 61, reserved, brush-mustachioed Turkish Ambassador to the U.S., dean of Washington's Diplomatic Corps, onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and to France, expert on Turkish law; of a heart attack; in Washington.

Died. Frank Marshall, 67, U.S. chess champion from 1909 to 1936 (he tried only once for the world's championship); of a heart attack; in Jersey City. Tightlipped, cigar-chewing Marshall played at least one game a day for 57 years, took a chessboard to bed to accommodate nighttime inspiration.

Died. Geoffrey Dawson, 70, small, toweringly conservative retired editor of the thundering London Times; in London. Before the Times's recent liberal trend, Dawson set its editorial tone for a quarter-century. Under him, the paper supported the Chamberlain Government's appeasement of Hitler in the Sudetenland, changed its banner for the first time since 1788 (it went back to the banner of 1785).

Died. Claud Bowes-Lyon, 89, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, father of England's Queen Elizabeth; in Forfarshire, Scotland. Worried by taxes, the spare, benign Earl once feared he would have to sell his Glamis Castle (pronounced Glarms), "the oldest inhabited house in Britain," long supposed the spot where Macbeth murdered Duncan and sleep.

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