Monday, Jun. 03, 1935
Engaged. Marie McIntyre, 22, daughter of White House Secretary Marvin Hunter McIntyre; and Frederick Hayes Wallen II, 25, supervising engineer on an RFC project in Arizona.
Married. Sarah ("Sally") Brisbane, 22, pretty daughter of Hearst Columnist Arthur Brisbane; and John Reagan ("Tex") McCrary Jr., 24, handsome onetime sportswriter on The Literary Digest, organizer of the Association of College Editors which it promoted; in Manhattan. For the reforming, vaguely liberal A. C. E.. Mr. McCrary drafted a letter warmly attacking Hearst policies. "Tex" McCrary now works for the New York Mirror, owned by Publisher Hearst, directed by Father-in-Law Brisbane.
Married. Howard Franklin Thurston, 65, famed magician; and Pauline Mark, 27, his assistant whom he was accustomed to saw in half on the stage; in Harrison, N. Y. She met him 15 years ago when, on a Chicago stage, he turned a box of candy into a white rabbit for her.
Divorced. James Thurber, 40, one-eyed New Yorker writer, amateur artist famed for his shapeless women and droopy men (TIME, Dec. 31); by Mrs. Althea A. Thurber; in Bridgeport, Conn. Grounds: that he drank, was unfaithful, often got in fights which he invariably lost.
Died. Mrs. Emily Davies Vanderbilt Thayer Whitfield, thirtyish, successively divorced from William H. Vanderbilt and Producer Sigourney Thayer, about to divorce Author Raoul Whitneld; by her own hand (revolver); at Dead Horse Ranch, near Las Vegas, N. Mex.
Died. James W. Blake, 72, author in 1894 of the words of Al Smith's latterday campaign song, ''The Sidewalks of New York"; of cancer; in Manhattan. Mamie O'Rourke, Nellie Shannon, Johnny Casey and Jimmy Crowe, who "tripped the light fantastic" in Blake's lyric, had been his childhood playmates. Though the song still sells 5,000 copies a year, it brought only $5,000 to Blake and Composer Charles Lawlor, who died penniless in 1925. Pensioned by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, Blake was hospitalized during his last illness through the offices of Citizen Smith.
Died. Jane Addams, 74, pioneer social worker, lecturer, pacifist, reformer, founder 46 years ago of Chicago's Hull House, first and most famed settlement house in the U.S.; after an operation for abdominal adhesions and cancer; in Chicago. Theodore Roosevelt called her "America's most useful citizen." For her peace activities, which included organizing an international congress of women during the War and resisting U.S. entry into the War, she was awarded one-half the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, with Nicholas Murray Butler.
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