Monday, Mar. 23, 1936
Left. By the late Emily C. Jordan Folger of Glen Cove, L. I.: an estate estimated at $2,000,000, the bulk of which was bequeathed to the great Folger Shakespeare Memorial in Washington, D. C., founded by her late husband, Standard Oilman Henry Clay Folger.
Died. "Prince" Serge Mdivani, 33, eldest of the three "Marrying Mdivanis"; onetime husband of Cinemactress Pola Negri, Opera Singer Mary McCormic; near Palm Beach, when his polo pony fell, kicked in his head. On the sidelines was his bride of a month, Louise Astor Van Alen Mdivani, onetime wife of Brother Alexis Mdivani, Heiress Barbara Hutton's first husband, who was killed seven months ago in an automobile crack-up near Gerona, Spain (TIME, Aug. 12).
Died. Admiral of the Fleet the Earl David Beatty, Viscount Borodale of Wexford and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and of Brocksby, 65, commander of the British battle cruiser squadron at the controversial Battle of Jutland; of a severe cold aggravated by marching in a drizzle at King George V's funeral; in London.
Died. Count Yasuya Uchida, 70, onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., Austria, Russia, four times Japan's Foreign Minister; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. He was recalled from retirement, put in charge of the Japanese Foreign Office for the last time in 1932, superintended Japan's withdrawal from the League, its seizure of Manchuria.
Died. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, 72, famed eye surgeon whose patients included Presidents Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Coolidge; Charles Augustus Lindbergh, King Prajadhipok of Siam, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Booth Tarkington; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. In 1925 grateful friends and patients opened in his honor the $4,000,000 Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, best equipped and most renowned institution of its kind.
Died. Albert Harrison Brundage, 74, noted toxicologist; of lobar pneumonia; in Central Islip, L.I. Wealthy from his writings, he gave so liberally to charity and scientific research that two months ago, bankrupt and broken in health, he was evicted from his Woodhaven, L.I. home.
Died. John Scott Haldane, 76, famed physiologist and physicist, brother of the late Richard Burdon Viscount Haldane (onetime Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain), father of London University's celebrated Author-Biochemist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane; of pneumonia; in Oxford. A confirmed hater of materialism, he called it "nothing better than a superstition."
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