Monday, Nov. 15, 1937
Born. To Angler Biddle Duke, 22, of the tobacco dynasty, and Priscilla St. George Duke, 18, married last January; a son. As the child was born, pretty Grandmother Mrs. George B. St. George, granddaughter of late Banker George F. Baker and first cousin to Franklin D. Roosevelt, was romping to a blue ribbon on three-gaited Silver Fox in Manhattan's National Horse Show (see p. 61).
Birthday. Ida Minerva Tarbell, last of the original "muckrakers," who made her name by her book, History of the Standard Oil Co. (1904); her 80th; in Manhattan. Last week Miss Tarbell, who has three books in progress, said, "I can't stop. I don't come under Social Security."
Engaged. Bob Gregory, 25, claimant to the European middleweight catch-as-catch-can wrestling title, to "Princess Baba," Valeria Brooke, 21, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Rajah of Sarawak;* in London. The betrothal, which followed a whirling courtship, was opposed by Princess Baba's parents, but defended by her on the grounds that her sister. Princess Pearl, had previously married Jazz-Bandleader Harry Roy.
Engaged. J. Leslie Younghusband, 41, wealthy cosmetician, to Louise Lane, former dancer; in Chicago. Disturbed that his meaningful surname should be linked in marriage now for the fifth time. Fiance Younghusband apologized: "I've had several bad starts."
Married. Mrs. Lillian Stokes Bostwick McKim, sister of polo-playing, steeplechasing George H. (''Pete"), Dunbar and Albert Bostwick, to Ogden Phipps, court-tennist. stable owner, nephew of the late Ogden Mills; quietly and to the surprise even of Mr. Phipps's household servants; in a Manhattan apartment.
Convicted. Colonel Count Franc,ois de la Rocque, Croix de Feu leader, of slander, for denouncing statements made by Duke Joseph Pozzo di Borgo as "maliciously false" (TIME. Nov. 8). Fine: 3,200 francs, trial costs.
Settled. By Mrs. Edward Howland Robinson Green, red-haired widow of the late Hetty Green's son. and Mrs. Hetty Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks, his sister, their legal contest for his estate, estimated at between $40,000,000 and $80,000,000. Mrs. Green got $500,000; Mrs. Wilks got the rest (minus 70% deducted for State and Federal taxes). Added to her own fortune, the legacy will make Mrs. Wilks what her mother was before her--richest woman in the U. S.
Died, Jean de Brunhoff, 37, French painter, author of "Babar" children's books; of tuberculosis, in Switzerland.
Died. Francis Patrick Garvan, 62, one-time U. S. Alien Property Custodian, founder (1919) of Chemical Foundation. Inc., which gained control of the U. S. post-War chemistry by paying the Government $271,850 for seized German chemical and dye patents; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.
Died. Winthrop Ames, 66, scholarly, devoted theatrical producer; of pneumonia; in Boston. At 7, Winthrop Ames thought H.M.S. Pinafore, newly come to Boston, a grand show. His father thought otherwise, declined an opportunity to invest in it. failed to share in the $1,000,000 the operetta reputedly earned. The theatre finally claimed him in 1004, first Boston's Castle Square, then Manhattan's ambitious, repertory New Theatre. He built the Little and Booth Theatres, headed a producers' committee to purge the stage of filth, helped rescue Gilbert and Sullivan operetta from the hands of school children and restore it to its place as adult entertainment.
Died. Henry Mauris Robinson. 69, financier, friend and adviser to Presidents Wilson. Harding. Coolidge, Hoover; who attended the Paris Peace Conference, the First International Labor Conference, helped draft the Dawes Plan; after a fall; in Pasadena, Calif.
Died. Jack McAuliffe, 71, retired (1893) undefeated world's lightweight boxing champion, one of the last of the bareknuckle boxers, who fought James Carney (1887) for 74 rounds before a gamblers' riot broke up the fight, and whose records indicated he never lost a match; of a throat ailment; in Forest Hills, N. Y.
Died. Judge Francis Joseph Heney, 78. famed prosecutor of Oregon land fraud trials and San Francisco graft prosecutions 30-odd years ago; after a long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif. As a young man in Arizona, Heney undertook the case of a divorcing wife whose husband, hulking Dr. Christopher Handy, had threatened to shoot any lawyer who helped her; when they met. Heney drew faster than Handy, killed him. John, son of Christopher Handy, was last week a pallbearer to Judge Heney.
Died. Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, 84. British actor famed for his noble Shakespearean roles, which he played from 1874 until he retired from the professional stage 21 years ago; in St. Margaret's Bay, Dover, England. The greatest of his 130-odd parts was that of Hamlet, whom he thought ''not mad." merely "waxed desperate with imagination."
-A region in southwestern Borneo about the size of England & Wales, given to Princess Baba's great-great-uncle Sir James Brooke for supressing a native revolt in 1810.
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