Monday, Jan. 18, 1937

Married. Clifford Odets, 30, proletarian playwright (Waiting for Lefty) and film scenarist (The General Died at Dawn); and Luise Rainer, 25, Viennese cinemactress (Escapade, The Great Ziegfeld); in Brentwood, Calif.

Married, Joyce Wethered, 34, world's greatest woman golfer, four times English woman champion; and Captain Sir John Heathcoat-Amory, 42, British sportsman; in London.

Appointed, James McCauley Landis, 37, chairman of the Federal Securities & Exchange Commission, protege of Brain Truster Felix Frankfurter; to be dean of the Harvard Law School, succeeding Roscoe Pound; in Cambridge, Mass.

Died. Mrs. Isobel Carothers Berolzheimer, 36, "Lu" of the radio trio "Clara, Lu 'n Em," wife of Professor Howard Berolzheimer of the Northwestern University School of Speech; of pneumonia; in Evanston, Ill. Ill with influenza in Evanston lay "Em," Mrs. John Mayo Mitchell. On the air nearly six years, their gossipy act was conceived when the three were Zeta Phi Eta sisters at Northwestern.

Died. Charles Hayden, 66, bachelor Manhattan financier (Hayden, Stone & Co.), director of 58 corporations; of glandular complications following an operation; in Manhattan.

Died. Martin J. ("Farmer") Burns, 75, onetime world's wrestling champion; in Council Bluffs, Iowa; of senility. Burns defeated Evan Lewis (the original "Strangler") for the heavyweight title in 1895, when choke holds were allowed, lost to Tom Jenkins three years later, trained Frank Gotch to throw Jenkins. Trainer and Chautauqua lecturer, he boasted: "Only one man out of Cedar County, Iowa (Herbert Hoover), ever made more money than I did and he got to be President of the United States."

Died. Admiral Albert Cleaves. 79, U. S. N. retired, able Wartime Commander of the Cruiser & Transport Force whose convoys transported 2,511,047 soldiers across the Atlantic without a single loss; of pneumonia; in Philadelphia. He commanded the Mayflower, later the Presidential yacht on its 1903 geodetic survey cruise which charted the Atlantic's deepest hole (27,984 ft.) off Puerto Rico, supervised construction of the first U. S. torpedo factory at Newport, initiated ship refuelling at sea.

Died. Alfred Bessette (Brother Andre), 91, Catholic lay brother and "miracle man," founder of Montreal's St. Joseph's Oratory and the New Basilica; after a paralytic stroke; in Montreal.

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