Rose Silver, 90, a former Pima County, Ariz., lawyer who once defended gangster John Dillinger, died Monday in Tucson. Dillinger, who was arrested in Tucson in 1934, was sued by a bank he had once robbed. He hired Ms. Silver to represent him and paid her $1,500 and gave her his car. Two years later submachine guns and other firearms were found hidden behind the car's seats and were confiscated by the FBI, said her son-in-law, Gene Karp.
Glenn Anderson, 81, who became chairman of the Public Works and Transportation Committee during 12 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, died of Alzheimer's disease Tuesday in Los Angeles. A Democrat, he was lieutenant governor of California from 1958 to 1966 and was responsible for calling out the National Guard during the 1965 Watts riots. He was elected to the House in 1968 and left Congress in 1992.
Friedel Dzubas, 79, generally regarded as a member of the "second wave" of American Abstract Expressionists, died in his sleep Saturday in Newton, Mass. He came to America in 1939 to escape Hitler's Nazi Germany. One of his works, a 59-foot abstract piece called "Crossings," is believed to be the largest abstract painting in the world. His works are included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution.
Madame Gres, 90, who discreetly reigned for 50 years as one of the great French fashion designers, died Nov. 24, 1993. Her death was disclosed Tuesday. Her daughter, Anne Gres, kept the death secret from all but a few intimate friends. Madame Gres, the professional name of Germaine Krebs, started a shop in 1937 with a partner on the fashionable Rue du Faubourg St. Honore. She became one of the top Parisian designers and was an ardent champion of haute couture.
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, 75, a writer and literary critic who translated Shakespeare's works into Arabic, died Monday in Baghdad, Iraq. He wrote more than 50 works of fiction, poetry and criticism, some of which are required reading at universities throughout the Arab world. Perhaps his best-known work is "The Search for Walid Masoud," an autobiographical novel about a Palestinian who goes through an identity crisis after losing his home and moving to a new country.
William Lee Stokes, 79, a geologist for whom eight fossil species were named, died of diabetes Monday in Salt Lake City. He was renowned for developing Utah's Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry, a rich deposit of dinosaur fossils.