Milestones, Dec. 11, 1933

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Died. Alexander Legge, 67, president of International Harvester Co., first chairman of President Hoover's Federal Farm Board, onetime vice chairman of the War Industries Board and head of the Allied Purchasing Commission; of a heart attack; in Hinsdale, near Chicago. Born on a Wisconsin farm, he had only three months' schooling when he got a job with International Harvester, rose to a position which no other man outside of Chicago's McCormick family has held. A huge, blunt man, he made Washington hostesses and diplomats uneasy, advised his critics to go to Hell.

Died. Frank Jenners Wilstach, 63, censor of U. S. cinemadvertising & publicity, wit, bibliophile, author, compiler of similes, sometime business manager of DeWolf Hopper, Sothern & Marlowe. Mrs. Leslie Carter, William Faversham; of influenza; in Manhattan. His famed Dictionary of Similes sprang out of his disgust for the phrase, "The news spread like wildfire." "Wildfire," he fumed, "is a disease of sheep. It is also a bolt of sheet lightning. I'm going to end this."

Died. Richard Beatty Mellon, 75, financier, charitarian, president of Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank, younger brother of Andrew William Mellon; of pneumonia; in Pittsburgh. Sons of canny old Thomas Mellon, young Richard and young Andrew took a lucrative flyer in lumber, skipped nimbly into their father's bank, which became Mellon National in 1902, today has resources of $236,000,000. They reached for oil, coal, aluminum, railroads, power, glass, made profits and plowed them back, built up an $8,000,000,000 empire. When Brother Andrew became Secretary of the Treasury, Richard took hold of both reins of the family fortune. In 1930 Richard gave $3,000,000 for a great new church on the site where four Mellon generations had worshipped.

Died. Henry Nichols Blake, 95, last chief justice of territorial Montana and its first as a State, oldest living graduate of Harvard Law School, Civil War veteran; of old age, in Boston.

Died. The world's only captive bushmaster, most dangerous snake of the American tropics, caught last month by Douglas D. H. March (TIME, Nov. 20); in Panama City.