Monday, Sep. 07, 1936
Born. To Fisticuffer Jack Dempsey, 41; and Mrs. Hannah Williams Dempsey, 25, onetime musicomedienne: a second daughter; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib. 9 oz. Name: Barbara Judith.
Married. Arthur Wyndham Baldwin, 32, younger son of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin; and Joan Elspeth Tomes, 34; in London.
Sued for Divorce. Jack Cornett Shuler, 18, son of California's radiorating Preacher Robert Pierce ("Fighting Bob") Shuler; by Metta Nadine Shuler, 18; in Los Angeles. Grounds: nonsupport. She charged that on Father Shuler's insistence her husband "had to say good night to me and leave for home every night at 9:30."
Retired. Robert Morss Lovett, 65, famed liberal English Professor at the University of Chicago since 1893.
Died. Wilmarth Ickes, 37, son of the late Mrs. Harold Le Clair Ickes and the University of California's Historian James Westfall Thompson, her first husband; by his own hand (revolver); in Winnetka, Ill. In Woburn, Mass, the Secretary of the Interior's other foster son, Robert H. Ickes, 23, was acquitted of driving while under the influence of liquor.
Died. Dave Barry, 47, the referee whose notorious long-count helped Gene Tunney successfully defend his championship against Jack Dempsey in 1927, and who was convicted in 1934 of swindling Chicago's Amalgamated Trust & Savings Bank of $54,000 (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934); after long illness; in Chicago.
Died. Frederick Fillmore French, 52, Manhattan builder (Tudor City, Knickerbocker Village); of angina pectoris; in Pawling, N. Y. An admirer of the late Thomas Edison, he worked late, slept little, never drank or attended the theatre, assigned his staff daily readings in Elbert Hubbard.
Died. Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck, 53, first Congresswoman from Illinois (1922-23); after long illness; in Chicago.
Died. George Henry Dern, 63, Secretary of War since 1933 (see p. 8); in Washington, D. C.
Died. Clinton White Toms, 67, president since 1928 of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. (Chesterfields); of bronchial infection; in Manhattan.
Died. William Fairfield Whiting, 72 Holyoke, Mass. paper manufacturer, great friend and onetime (1928-29) Secretary of Commerce to Calvin Coolidge; after long illness; in Holyoke. At the 1920 Republican Convention Paperman Whiting voted Coolidge for President on all ten ballots, was instrumental in getting his friend the Vice-Presidential nomination.
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