Milestones, Oct. 6, 1958

Died. Carl Brisson, 64, bouncy, curly-locked actor-singer, who artfully used his high-styled cocktail-party personality in a profitable four-decade career as a Scandinavian Maurice Chevalier; father-in-law of Actress Rosalind Russell; of cancer of the liver; in Copenhagen.

Died. Henry (“The Dutchman”) Grunewald, 66, stocky, devious, high-priced influence peddler during the Truman Administration; of a heart ailment; in Washington. Wire Puller Grunewald built up a well-placed circle of Washington friends in both parties, came to grief when House investigators first learned, in 1951, that he had bartered his influence to help settle income tax cases (TIME, Dec. 17, 1951 et seq.). The ailing (a series of heart attacks since 1953) Dutchman served only one sentence (90 days for violating probation), twice escaped jail on tax-fixing charges.

Died. Kenneth Powers Williams, 71, military historian, longtime (1909-58) teacher of mathematics at Indiana University; author of the multi-volume Lincoln Finds a General (TIME, Jan. 2, 1950; Nov. 10, 1952), probably the soundest clearest history of the Northern Command in the Civil War ever written; of cancer; in Bloomington, Ind.

Died. Breckinridge Long, 77, Missouri-born lawyer, horse breeder, bon vivant, art collector, moderately pro-Mussolini U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1933-36), twice (1917-20, 1940-44) Assistant Secretary of State, lifelong Wilsonian, internationalist Democrat who was among the leaders of the Roosevelt-for-President forces at the 1932 Chicago convention; after long illness; at his sumptuous country home, Montpelier Manor, near Laurel, Md.

Died. R. (for Robert) Stanley Dollar, 78, canny, litigious shipping tycoon, of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Ontario-born Dollar went to work at 17 for his father, succeeded him in 1931 as head of the family shipping empire, but was forced out in 1938 when Dollar Steamship Lines defaulted on a $7,500,000 federal loan. After the war, Dollar undertook a seven-year court fight with the U.S. Government for control of the ships, finally settled in 1952 for $9,000,000, half the proceeds from a public sale of the 17-vessel line.

Died. John Broadus Watson, 80, pioneer psychologist (“behaviorism”) and longtime (1924-46) advertising executive (J. Walter Thompson Co., William Esty & Co.); after long illness; in Manhattan. Borrowing from the work of Russian Physiologist Ivan Pavlov, Watson developed a theory that man’s personality is merely a mass of conditioned reflexes, later turned his academic concept to cash as he mapped out early advertising campaigns (for Pond’s Cold Cream) that exploited man’s desire for personal prestige.

Died. Annie Reid Knox, 82, widow of Publisher (Chicago Daily News) and F.D.R.’s wartime Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox; in Coral Gables, Fla.

Died. Mary Roberts Rinehart, 82, genteel, hard-working novelist and mystery writer, whose 60 books (written over 46 years) sold more than 11 million copies; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Growing up in Allegheny, Pa., Mary Roberts studied to be a nurse, then married Surgeon Stanley Rinehart in 1896, bore three sons before she was 27. She wrote The Circular Staircase, first of her warmly human, quietly humorous mysteries, after a stock-market panic in 1903 threw the Rinehart family $12,000 in debt. When Staircase sold (1,250,000 copies so far), she went on writing, reached her popular peak in the era of her serialized (Sateve-post) sentimental adventures of a spinster named “Tish,” still sternly kept regular office hours in her 70s. Mrs. Rinehart once shrewdly appraised her own honorable journeyman status in letters: “If I agonized like a Chekhov over my work, and I did, the resemblance ceased there.”