Monday, Feb. 10, 1936
Born. To Senator and Mrs. Robert Marion La Follette Jr.: a son, their second; in Washington, D. C. Weight: 7 Ib. Name: Bronson Cutting.
Married. Colonel Edwin William Starling, 59, longtime Presidential bodyguard, head of the White House secret service staff since March 1935; and Mrs. Ida Lee Bourne White, broadcasting station hostess; in Washington, D. C.
Resigned. Gilmour ("Gloomy Gil") Dobie, 57; from his 16-year job as Cornell's head football coach; in Ithaca, N. Y. His Cornell teams won every game from 1921 through 1923, did not win a game last season. Two days after his resignation Coach Dobie was snapped up by Boston College.
Died. Alexander Zoubkoff, 36, Russian commoner, onetime acrobat,--brother-in-law of former Kaiser Wilhelm II; in Luxembourg. In 1927 he created an international scandal by marrying the Kaiser's sister, Princess Victoria of Schaumburg-Lippe, 61. Their marriage, celebrated by a European motorcycle tour, ended in 1929 when the Princess, after selling jewels inherited from Queen Victoria to pay his debts, filed suit for divorce, died nine days before the trial.
Died. General George ("Thunder-bolt") Kondylis, 56; of a heart attack; in Athens.
Died. Grace Gebbie Drayton, 58, illustrator and comic-strip artist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A Philadelphia socialite, she gained fame by creating the plump, wide-eyed Campbell Soup Kids, drew many a newspaper strip, including the popular Dolly Dimples and Bobby Bounce, Toodles and Pussy Pumpkins.
Died. Charles Beecher Warren, 65, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Japan (1921-23) and Mexico (1924), Coolidge choice for Attorney General twice rejected by the Senate because of his legal work for U. S. sugar interests; of heart disease; in Detroit. Died. Victoria, Lady Sackville, 73, illegitimate daughter of the second Baron Sackville, British Minister to Washington (1881-88), widow of the third baron; in Brighton, England. Twice she was involved in celebrated law suits. In 1910, she admitted her illegitimacy in order successfully to establish her cousin-husband's right to her father's estate before her brother. Two years later, the family of an eccentric millionaire, Sir John Murray Scott, who bequeathed her $2,500,000, charged her with hypnotism, lost the case. She is survived by her daughter Victoria Mary Sackville-West, distinguished poet and novelist, wife of Biographer Harold Nicolson, M. P. Died, Scott Cardelle Bone, 75, newspaperman and editor, founder of the Washington Herald, Governor of Alaska (1921-25); of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif.
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