Monday, May. 04, 1936
Born. To Don Jaime de Borbon, 27, second son of Spain's deposed King Alfonso XIII; and Emanuela de Dampierre de Borbon: their first child, a son; in Rome. Name: Alfonso.
Birthday. Henry Morgenthau Sr., onetime (1913-16) Ambassador to Turkey, financier, father of the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury: 80.
Birthday, Poet Edwin ("The Man with the Hoe") Markham: 84. Said he to Princeton University's English Department, his birthday hosts: "When you finish a good poem, you must be able to say 'ah,' as though you were hit in the solar plexus."
Married. Richard King Mellon, 36, president of Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank, nephew of Andrew William Mellon; and Mrs. Constance Prosser McCaulley, daughter of Manhattan Banker Seward Prosser; in Englewood, N. J.
Sentenced. Marcus Alonzo Hanna III, 27, great-grandson and namesake of Cleveland's late great Senator and President-maker*: to Ohio State Reformatory for an indeterminate term; for forging the name of his uncle, Publisher Dan Rhodes Hanna (Cleveland News), to a $200 check.
Died. Percy Hammond, 63, since 1921 the New York Herald Tribune's witty and magniloquent drama critic; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.
Died. King Fuad I of Egypt, 68, ninth sovereign of his dynasty; after long illness complicated by stomatitis and gangrene; in Cairo. Fat, scholarly Ahmed Fuad, proclaimed King in 1922, was Great Britain's unwilling puppet, repeatedly threw his weight against the Wafdists, Egypt's overwhelming majority party. His only son, Prince Farouk, 16, succeeds to the throne under a regency.
Died. Humorist Finley Peter Dunne, 68, creator of the famed fictional seriocomic seer "Mr. Dooley"; of cancer of the throat; in Manhattan. A Chicago journalist, in 1892 Dunne patterned "Mr. Dooley" after one James McGarry, whose bar he frequented. With his pungent comments on public figures and affairs ("Politics ain't a bean bag. 'Tis a man's game, an' women, childher and pro-hybitionists's do well to keep out iv it."), Mr. Dooley was for 20 years a national institution.
Died. Charles Kenny McClatchy, 77, militant publisher of California's three famed Daily Bee's (Sacramento, Modesto, Fresno); of pneumonia; in Carmichael. Last year his Sacramento Bee won the Pulitzer Prize for "meritorious public service" (TIME, May 13).
*TIME erred in calling Marcus Alonzo Hanna III the son of Carl Hanna (TIME, April 6). He is the son of Marcus Alonzo Hanna II.
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