Professor Alonso Dies; Frost Dead After Car Injury

Two well-known University professors died yesterday, one quietly in his bed, the other in a hospital after an automobile accident.

Amado Alonso, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages, and a leading literary critic and historian in Spanish, passed away at his home in Arlington after a prolonged illness.

Death also came to Henry A. Frost '05, former chairman of the department of Architectural Design, and of late a visiting professor of Architecture at Ohio University. Frost was fatally injured when his car ran off the road and plunged into a ditch about five miles northeast of Athens, Ohio. Police said he apparently suffered a heart attack or fell asleep at the wheel.

Alonso was well known throughout the Spanish speaking world and especially in Latin America. He had been director of the Institute of Philology at the University of Buenos Aires from 1927 until he joined the Harvard Faculty in 1947.

Frost retired at Harvard in 1949 and went to Ohio in 1950.