Monday, Feb. 07, 1938

Evangeline Brewster Johnson Stokowski, daughter of the late Surgical Goods Manufacturer-Robert W. Johnson, who was divorced two months ago from Conductor Leopold Stokowski (TIME, Dec. 13); to Prince Alexis Zalstem-Zalessky of Russia, student of tropical agriculture; in Phoenix, Ariz.

Married. Marta Abba, 31, Italian-born actress (Tovarich), to Severance Allen Millikin, 42, poloist, director of Cleveland Trust Co., grandson of the late Steelman John Long Severance; in Cleveland.

Married. Ganna Walska d'Eighnhorn Fraenkel Cochran McCormick, 45, Polish-American opera singer, perfumer, feminist, whose four previous husbands had owned fortunes totaling $125,000,000; to Harry Grindell-Matthews, 57, inventor of the "death ray," which knocked out a cow 200 yards distant at its first British War Office tests; in London. The bride went on her honeymoon alone, while the investor rushed to his Clydach, Wales laboratory (fenced with electrified wire) to perfect an aerial torpedo.

Divorced. Josephine Murphy Culbertson, bridge-player extraordinary, from Ely Culbertson, bridge-player extraordinary (TIME, Dec. 13); in Reno.

Died. Gerald ("Jerry") Vultee, 38, aircraft designer (Vultee Transport), and wife, Sylvia Parker Vultee, 27; when his own plane caught fire in mid-air and crashed on Wilson Mountain, near Flagstaff, Ariz.

Died. Edward A. Kenney, New Jersey Congressman since 1933, sponsor in 1934 of a billion dollar national lottery bill; by a six-story fall from the Hotel Carlton, in Washington, few hours after praising Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague at a New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Dinner in the building.

Died. Eugene Arnett, 62, wealthy, eccentric recluse; after two abdominal operations; in Oklahoma City, Okla. After earning $1,000,000 in seven years in insurance, Arnett retired, took up secret studies of archaeology, eugenics, Greek philosophy, medicine, law, agriculture, drainage, geology, manufacturing, commerce, anthropology. He bought 60,000 books, hired 17 assistants. For a time he worked 100 hours, ate only one large meal, read at least seven books each week. He married twice on Christmas Day. He left one invention, the gourdcumber, "a cucumber as drought-resistant as the Spanish gourd"; and many lengthy treatises, the last of which was The New Deal vs. The New World. His ambition, unfulfilled at death, was to find a formula for a race of supermen.

Died. Hugh Graham Baron Atholstan, 89, founder and for 69 years proprietor of the Montreal Star; after long illness; in Montreal.

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