New York Times FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1979 Guy Richards, at 73, A Former City Editor Of Journal-American Guy Richards, a former city editor of The New York Journal-American and a prize-winning reporter, died Wednesday at his home at 340 East 57th Street in Manhattan. He was 73 years old. Mr. Richards received New York Newspaper Guild Page 1 awards for metropolitan news stories in 1954 and 1956. He also wrote articles and books that re- flected a journalism career of various ex- periences and interests. Three nonfiction books dealt with Czar- ist Russia: “Imperial Agent,” “The Hunt for the Czar” and “The Rescue of the Romanoffs.” “Two Rubles to Time Square,” was a novel, as was a fourth work in progress at the time of his death. Mr. Richards, a 1927 Yale College graduate, was a member of the Whitney South Seas Expedition to the Solomon Is- lands and New Guinea for two years be- fore he went to work briefly as a reporter for The New York Sun. He then joined The Daily News as a reporter. During World War II, he served in the armed services, where he saw duty with the First Marines at Guadalcanal. Discharged from the service before the end of the war, Mr. Richards returned to the South Pacific as a correspondent for The News. Later he was a lieutenant colo- nel in the Marine Corps Reserve. Mr. Richards joined The Journal- American after the war, working as a re- porter and feature writer. He won the guild awards and a prize from the Silu- rions, another newspaper group, during his tenure there, from 1949 until 1966. Mr. Richards then became an investi- gative reporter and assistant city editor for The World Journal Tribune, a short- lived publication that failed as a succes- sor to three New York dailies — including The Journal-American, which closed in 1966. He is survived by his wife, Mary Fran- cis; their daughter, Pamela Smit, and a daughter by an earlier marriage, Antonia Girard. A memorial service will be held at 2:30 Tuesday at All Saints Episcopal Church in Manhattan.