Died. Thelma Chrysler Foy, fiftyish, upper-crust society hostess and patron of the arts, daughter of the late automagnate Walter P. Chrysler, wife of Chrysler Director Byron C. Foy, repeatedly voted among the world's ten best-dressed women; of leukemia; in Manhattan.

Died. Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby, 58, world-famed Swedish-born weatherman (TIME, Dec. 17), organizer (1927) of the U.S.'s first airway weather-reporting system, pioneer in modern air-mass-analysis forecasting techniques, discoverer of the "jet stream," founder of Stockholm's International Meteorological Institute; of a coronary thrombosis; in Stockholm.

Died. Joseph Ferdinand ("Professor Sea Gull," "The Mongoose") Gould, 68, self-styled "Last of the Bohemians," colorful, scraggy-bearded habitue of Greenwich Village bars and Bowery flophouses; in Pilgrim State (mental) Hospital, Brentwood, N.Y. A descendant of silk-stockinged Boston families, Harvardman CTI) Gould was a onetime (1916-17) New York Evening Mail police reporter, a sometime literary critic, since 1917 had worked with savage intensity on a huge (more than 9,000,000 words) "history of people." Unpublished and unfinished, Gould's An Oral History of Our Time was illegibly scribbled in hundreds of nickel notebooks, which he abandoned in the cellars and closets of his friends. Surviving on handouts and "air, selfesteem, cigarette butts, cowboy [black, no sugar] coffee, fried-egg sandwiches and ketchup," frail (5 ft. 4 in., about 95 Ibs.) Joe Gould sold (for a drink) entertainment (lectures, poetry recitals, epithets) to any willing bar patron. Gould had no known relatives but many friends, including Poet E. E. Cummings, Artist Don Freeman, Writers Malcolm Cowley and William Saroyan.

Died. Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, 69, English Roman Catholic convert and scholar; of cancer; in Somerset, England (see RELIGION).

Died. Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, Admiral Lord Mountevans, 75, British Royal Navy hero, whose exploits dot the high seas from England to China, author of sea-adventure stories (Pirate's Doom); in Golaa, Norway. Evans commanded the famed destroyer Broke (in 1917), which torpedoed one German raider, rammed a second and vanquished its cutlass-armed boarding party in old-fashioned hand-to-hand combat.

Died. Giovanni Cardinal Mercati, 90, Vatican librarian and archivist of the Roman Catholic Church, disciplined scholar ("I'm always ready to learn") who wrote some 400 arcane works, was created a cardinal by his friend, the late Pope Pius XI; of a heart attack; in Vatican City. Surviving in the 70-member College of Cardinals: 58.

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