Monday, May. 23, 1938
Engaged-Yehudi Menuhin, 21, concert violinist and onetime boy prodigy; and Nola Nicholas, 19, redheaded daughter of an Australian aspirin maker. Violinist Menuhin proposed to Miss Nicholas by long-distance telephone (Holland to Melbourne).
Married. Archduke Carlos of Habsburg, 28, youngest son of Archduke Leopold von Salvator; and Christa Satzger von Balvanyos. beauteous daughter of a Hungarian landowner; in Vienna. Promptly Archduke Carlos was expelled from the House of Habsburg for marrying a commoner.
Married. Julian Denegal Steele, 30, Harvard-educated Negro settlement worker; and Mary Bradley Dawes, 30, Boston University-educated white school teacher; in Manhattan. When their engagement became known last month, both lost their jobs. When their marriage became known last week, they separated, postponed their wedding trip because of "the sudden glare of publicity."
Married. Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, 40, pretender to the Hungarian throne; and Kathlin Bocskai, 22, onetime Hungarian schoolteacher; in Budapest. Like his cousin, Archduke Carlos (see above), Albrecht's marriage (his second) cost him his royal rank.
Divorced. Emeline Harriman Spencer, 76, sister of Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt Sr.; from Howland Spencer, 48, Dutchess County, N. Y. gentleman farmer; in West Palm Beach. Said Mrs. Spencer: "He never hit me, he just exploded. He would yell so the whole of Palm Beach could hear."
Died. Edward Townsend Stotesbury, 89, head of the Philadelphia firm of Drexel & Co. and partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.; of a heart attack; in Whitemarsh Hall, Chestnut Hill, Pa. Financier Stotesbury, after serving as a drummer boy in the Civil War, went to work for the elder Drexel at a salary of $16.60 a month. Lowest estimate of his fortune at death: $25,000,000.
Died. Stephen Parrish, 91, a major U. S. etcher during the last century, father of famed Artist Maxfield Parrish; of old age; in Plainfield, N. H.
Died. Brigadier General Aaron Simon Daggett, 100, oldest U. S. Army officer; of heart disease; in West Roxbury, Mass. He fought in the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, the Boxer Uprising; on his 99th birthday was decorated by the War Department.
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