Monday, Oct. 22, 1934
Married. Grace Dodge, daughter of President Bayard Dodge of the American University of Beirut, Syria, granddaughter of the late Cleveland Hoadley Dodge, copperman (Phelps Dodge) and philanthropist who gave enormous War profits to Near East Relief and other benevolences; and John Bartow Olmsted II of Buffalo; in Riverdale, N. Y.
Married. Count Franco Ratti, nephew of Pope Pius XI, engineer, director of the Vatican City Technical Services; and Angela Maria Crespi, daughter of Tycoon-Senator Silvio Crespi of Milan; by the Pope, who had not performed a marriage ceremony for eight years; in the great Consistorial Hall of Vatican City.
Married. Lynwood Thomas ("School-boy") Rowe, 22, ace pitcher of Detroit's American League baseball team; and Edna Mary Skinner, 21, of Eldorado, Ark.; in Detroit.
Divorced. George Galt Bourne, 47, son of the late Singer Sewing Machine President Gilbert Bourne, father of Cinemactress Whitney Bourne (Crime Without Passion); by Nancy Atterbury Potter Bourne, 30, Manhattan socialite, his second wife; in Reno.
Died. George F. McClelland, 39, president of Broadcasting Stations Corp., onetime executive vice president of NBC; by his own hand (pistol) ; in Manhattan.
Died. Edward West ("Daddy") Browning. 59, eccentric Manhattan real-estate tycoon and orphan fancier; of a heart attack following pneumonia and cerebral hemorrhage; in Scarsdale, N. Y. His antics, matrimonial and otherwise, with Frances ("Peaches") Heenan (see p. 53) and other girls adopted by him, made bales of lurid copy, sent Manhattan tabloid circulation soaring.
Died. William ("Willie") Clarkson, 73, famed London wigmaker and costumer; suddenly, after a stroke; in London. When his father, portrayed as "Poll Sweedlepipe" in Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit, died, Son William, 15, took over the Drury Lane Wiggery. He made wigs for the celebrities of the opera and theatre, masquerade costumes for Europe's crowned heads, the phrase "Wigs by Clarkson" a program fixture.
Died. Ronald John McNeill. 1st Baron Cushendun, 73, onetime British delegate to the League of Nations; in County Antrim, Ireland.
Died. Raymond Poincare, 74, Wartime President and three times Premier of France; after four years of ill health; in Paris. A squat, white-bearded, glacial man with a prodigious memory, he set "liquidation of the War" as his great goal, was responsible for French occupation of the Ruhr, staved off financial panic at home, retired in 1929 after consolidating France's War indebtedness to Britain and the U. S.
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