Milestones: Jul. 19, 1963

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Died. David Ellington Snodgrass, 68, peppery dean of San Francisco's Hastings College of Law who took on the rundown school in 1940, made it a policy to hire only teachers older than 65, snagged so many sprightly deans emeriti forced out of other schools by retirement rules that Hastings today rates as one of the country's top law schools; following heart surgery; in San Francisco.

Died. Jack ("Doc") Kearns, 80, boxing promoter behind six world champions, among them Mickey Walker, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, but none so great —or lucrative—as Jack Dempsey, whom Kearns met in 1917, within two years brought to the championship and later used to drum up the first million-dollar gates (against "Orchid Man" Georges Carpentier, Luis Angel Firpo); after a long illness; in Miami.

Died. Harry Johnston Grant, 81, publisher of the Milwaukee Journal, one of the biggest (circ. 361,875) and most prosperous dailies, a onetime textileman who took over from Lucius Nieman in 1919 and made the Journal the chronicle of Beertown, ordering exhaustive local and national coverage, extreme independence (leading liberals to damn it as too conservative, while Wisconsin's late Senator McCarthy dubbed it "the Milwaukee edition of the Worker"), saw his paper play a major role in giving Milwaukee the Braves and one of the nation's lowest crime rates; after a long illness; in Milwaukee.

Died. Herbert Thomas Kalmus, 81, father of Technicolor, a lanky, secretive M.I.T. graduate who named his process for his alma mater, hit pay dirt with Becky Sharp in 1935, and ever after mined millions from his Technicolor, Inc., selling only his "services" (never cameras, which were guarded like crown jewels) until a 1950 consent decree forced him to be more accommodating; of a heart attack; in Bel Air, Calif.

Died. Harold ("Pop") Nathan, 83, holder of the FBI's No. 2 badge and J. Edgar Hoover's right-hand man during the gang-busting 1930s, a small, owl-eyed pipe smoker who looked more like a bookkeeper than the top cop who cracked down on the Black Hand extortion ring, the Weyerhaeuser kidnapers, and the slayers of Mobster Frank Nash; after a long illness; in San Francisco.

Died. Brigadier General Frank Purdy Lahm, 85, one of the U.S. Army's earliest birdmen, a West Pointer who took lessons from Wilbur Wright and in 1909 soloed the Army's first plane, went on to train many top airmen as first commander of the Air Corps' pioneer flying school at Randolph Field, Texas—over which his ashes will be scattered from a plane; of a stroke; in Sandusky, Ohio.