Pyongyang Falls, Reds Flee North; U.S. Closes Doors to Falangists; Oil Sent to China, Senate Hears

Dr. Daniel L. Marsh, 70, resigned yesterday as President of Boston University after 25 years, during which he saw his University become the largest in New England. Harvard gave him an honorary degree last June.

Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay was found dead at her home in Austerlitz, N.Y. yesterday. She was 58.

The U.N. Political Committee yesterday stamped its formal approval on a plan for swift General Assembly action against aggression. It also put Russia on a trouble-shooting peace observation group in a rate display of big power harmony.

Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's alling treasury chief, has resigned to get a year's rest. Economics Minister Hugh Gaitskell was named to succeed him.

A two-year-old letter written by Son. Herbert H. Lehman (D.N.Y.) in defense of Alger Hiss was published yesterday in the New York World-Telegram and Sun. Lehman promptly issued a statement saying he has no apology for it. He pointed out that it was dated Aug., 1948--more than a year before the conviction of Hiss on a perjury charge.

A proposal to speed Libian independence with U.N. aid was approved overwhelmingly yesterday by the General Assembly's special Political Committee.