Donald Freeman (1903-1932), managing editor of Vanity Fair magazine, rammed his car into a "beacon light" in Mt. Kisco, New York. He died of his injuries the following day. Gossip columnist Walter Winchell, who wrote magazine pieces for Freeman, reported that he was "motoring to see his mother and sister" in the New York suburb. Many years later, according to a biographer, Clare Boothe Luce, wife of Time Inc.'s Henry, intimated that Freeman had killed himself because she had dumped him in favor of the elderly financier Bernard Baruch. The future Mrs. Luce, then Clare Brokaw, was working for Freeman at the time of his death and replaced him as the magazine's managing editor. Eulogizing Freeman, Winchell, in a rare moment of self-effacement, said the late editor "polished my pieces of drivel, embroidered them with big words, and gave them such tone that his class subscribers actually believed I could write!" Freeman was 29. Source: Wheneditorsweregods.typepad.com