Died. Lawrence Morris Markey, 51, reporter and novelist, The New Yorker's original (1925-33) "Reporter at Large"; killed by a rifle bullet (the coroner entered an open verdict); in Halifax, Va.

Died. George Card ("Buddy") De Sylva, 54, ubiquitous songwriter of the 20s, Hollywood and Broadway producer; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. As a Tin Pan Alley lyricist, he wrote such hits as Sonny Boy, Memory Lane, Somebody Loves Me. In the '30s, turned moviemaker, he produced five Shirley Temple heart-throbbers. In 1939-40 he tried Broadway, produced three smash musicals (DuBarry Was a Lady, Louisiana Purchase, Panama Hattie] within a year.

Died. Howard Edward Babcock, 61, farm-born Cornell farm economist; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. He argued that the U.S. farm economy would be bolstered, and U.S. health improved, if farmers would raise more livestock and consumers would eat more livestock products, devised a calf-faced, rooster-crested turkey-winged cow-pig-sheep, the "Unimal" (TIME, June 19), as a symbol of his program.

Died. Annie Henrietta Yule (Lady Yule), 75, one of the world's richest widows, whose husband (and cousin) Sir David ("Scottish King of the Indian Jute Trade") left her some $100 million when he died in 1928; in St. Albans, England. She preferred animals to people, kept a racing stable and a menagerie, bought broken-down draft horses and put them to pasture on her estate.

Died. Joseph Peter Grace, 78, onetime president (1906-29) and board chairman (1929-46) of W. R. Grace & Co. (banking, mines, textiles, Grace Line, Panagra), founded in Peru in 1854 by his father; in Manhasset, N.Y.

Died. General Evangeline Cory Booth, 84, the Salvation Army's fourth world general (1934-39), daughter of its British founder, William Booth; in Hartsdale, N.Y. Auburn-haired "Little Eva" was born the same year as the Army. Longtime head of the Army in the U.S., she won a bitter fight with brother Bramwell Booth to make the generalship elective, was herself elected to succeed Bramwell's successor, Edward John Higgins.

Died. Elsie de Wolfe Mendl (Lady Mendl), eightyish, mauve-decade Broadway actress (who numbered Ethel Barrymore among her understudies), haute monde interior decorator, international-set partygiver; in Versailles, France. She married Sir Charles Mendl after a long spinsterhood, lived into a fabulously sprightly old age, delighted gossip columnists with handstands at parties and hair dyes ranging from pink to vivid green.

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