Monday, Jun. 27, 1938
Birthday. Gustaf V, King of Sweden, the Goths, and the Wends (popularly known as "Mr. G"), 80; in Stockholm. During 20 hours of feting, he reviewed his troops and air fleet, assigned a popularly subscribed birthday present of 5,000,000 kroner ($1,250,000) to combat infantile paralysis and rheumatic diseases.
Married. Joanne Bass, 22, daughter of New Hampshire's former Governor Robert P. Bass; to Marshall Field Jr., 22, Harvard senior, grandson of the late Chicago Financier Marshall Field; in East Walpole, Mass. Like his friend John Roosevelt (see p. 9), at whose wedding he ushered two days before his own, he received his Harvard degree in absentia.
Married. Peter Gerald Lehman, 21, son of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman; to Peggy Lashanska Rosenbaum; in Manhattan.
Married. Rosemary Webster, 21, debutante daughter of Manhattan Surgeon David H. Webster; to Paul Gilson, 23, handsome but penniless Canton (N. Y.) poorhouse accountant; in Rochester, N. Y. Unable to stop the marriage. Father Webster proceeded to disinherit Daughter Rosemary "for the time being."
Married. Elizabeth Schermerhorn Young, 24, sometime cinemactress (Queen Christina), stage star (All the Living); divorced (1937) wife of Joseph Mankiewicz, M-G-M writer-producer; to Eugene Reynal, 36, socialite president of Blue Ribbon Books Inc.; in Manhattan.
Divorced. Katherine Ursula Towle Parrott Greenwood Wildberg, (Ursula Parrott) 36, author (Ex-Wife); from her third husband, John J. Wildberg, theatrical lawyer; in Bridgeport, Conn.
Divorced. James McDonald III, 24, Idaho oil heir; by Alecea Brezee McDonald; in Reno. Grounds: desertion. Hour later Mr. McDonald married Doris Marie Cunningham, 22, to give their son born out of wedlock a legal name, was promptly divorced by her on grounds of cruelty, next day married June C. Kerns, 18.
Death Disclosed. Velia Matteotti, widow of Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, whose assassination by Fascists in 1924 removed II Duce's last outspoken opponent; of unannounced causes; in Rome.
Died. Eliot Cabot, 38, actor (only one of the famed Boston family ever to go on the stage); of injuries sustained in a fall from an 18-foot embankment; in The Bronx.
Died. John Van Alstyn Weaver, 44, literary journeyman and husband of Actress Peggy Wood; of tuberculosis; in Colorado Springs. In 1921, having taken exception to an observation in H. L. Mencken's American Language that nothing serious could be written in slang, he published a book of poems (In American), at Mencken's suggestion, to disprove it.
Died. Allard H. Gasque, 65, for 16 years representative from Florence, S. C., chairman of the House Pensions Committee ; of heart disease; in Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C.
Died. Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, 66, famed corporation lawyer and "radical capitalist" (". . . The people who are suffering will challenge our system just as inevitably as the earth goes around the sun"); of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan.
Died. Royal Samuel Copeland, 69, senior U. S. Senator from New York; of kidney and heart ailments; in Washington. Michigan-born, once mayor of Ann Arbor, he moved to Manhattan as a professor of ophthalmology, became New York City's Wartime health commissioner, a popular Hearst medical columnist, a Tammany Senator in 1922. Anti-New Deal, a pedestrian, Senate-emptying speaker whom pages nicknamed "General Exodus," Senator Copeland, the only physician in the upper house, just before adjournment achieved his monument: a revised Food & Drugs Act (TIME, June 13).
Died. Henry Wilder Keyes, 75, former U. S. Senator from New Hampshire; after a five-week illness; in North Haverhill, N. H.
Died. Dr. William W. Campbell, 76, astronomer, onetime director of California's famed Lick Observatory, president (1923-30) of the University of California; by jumping from fourth-story window; in San Francisco. Reason: increasing blindness, fear of becoming a burden to his wife.
Died. Herbert ("Our 'Erb") Smith, 77, grizzled Yorkshireman who was a pugnacious leader of England's great 1926 general strike, past president of Mineworkers' Federation of Great Britain; immediately after casting a Labor vote in the Barnsley by-election; in Barnsley, England.
Died, Mary Ella Waller, 83, author of many a best-seller (The Woodcarver of 'Lympus; Deep in the Hearts of Men); in Wellesley, Mass.
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