Marion S.(Buz) Wyeth, Jr., editor at HarperCollins, who edited Old Yeller, With Malice Toward None, Paper Lion, Out of My League, and The Boys of Summer, among many other titles, died at the Preakness Health Care Center in Wayne, N.J.on September 25 at age 84. The cause of death was complications due to Alzheimer’s Disease. He began his career as a salesman at Doubleday bookstore and became a rep for Macmillan and then Harper Bros. where he joined the editorial staff at Harpers, and was soon working with writers such as George Plimpton, Richard McKenna, and Ursula Le Guin. He was the editor of a book by Fred Gipson, which came to him with the title Big Yellow Dog. He re-named it Old Yeller. He also loved to tell the story of how he turned down a book about a talking seagull. It became a best-seller: Jonathan Livingston Seagull.