William Bross Lloyd Jr., 86, a conscientious objector who founded the newsletter Toward Freedom, which follows the progress of new countries, died of pneumonia Saturday at his home in Rochester, Vt. He was the grandson of the 19th century social reformer Henry Demarest Lloyd and a lifelong Quaker. In the early 1950s he wrote a book, "Waging Peace: the Swiss Experience."
Louis E. Schwartz, 92, a retired New York Law School professor and an authority on personal injury law, died Feb. 9 of cancer at his home in Brooklyn, N.Y. His first book, "Trial of Automobile Cases" (Matthew Bender), was published in 1929, and a more extensive, six-volume work, "Trial of Accident Cases" (Matthew Bender), in 1958.
Alfred Steinberg, 77, a biographer, died Feb. 6 of a stroke in Silver Spring. He wrote biographies of Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Eleanor Roosevelt and Sam Rayburn. Another book, "The Bosses," told the story of six men who dominated big city political machines in the 1920s and 1930s.