De Voto Dies

Bernard De Voto '18, writer, editor and Pulitzer prize-winning historian, died last night in New York. De Voto, who won the 1947 Pulitzer prize in history for his book "Across the Wide Missouri," was taken to Presbyterian Hospital after collapsing at a television studio of the Columbia Broadcasting Company. He had just completed a broadcast.

A former English instructor here, De Voto made one of his last public appearances in the Kirkland House junior common room last Thursday. His lecture, "The Damnedest Country Under the Sun", urged a greater consideration of conservation in the West.