Monday, Jul. 25, 1938
Born. To Dorothy Round Little, last year's Wimbledon tennis champion, six-time member of the Wightman Cup team; and Dr. Douglas Little; their first child; a boy; in Dudley, England. Because she was about to become a mother England's No. 1 woman player did not play at Wimbledon this year. England's No. 1 man player, Bunny Austin entered although he was about to become a father, lost in the finals to California's Donald Budge (TIME, July 11).
Married. Hephzibah Menuhin, 18, piano-playing sister of violin-playing Yehudi; to Lindsay Nicholas, 22-year-old Australian rancher and brother of Yehudi's bride of two months; with no music; at Los Gatos, Calif. Hephzibah was the third & last of the three Menuhins to wed, all in two months. Younger Sister Yaltah is married to Washington Attorney William Stix.
Married. Grace Vanderbilt Davis, only daughter of Brig. General Cornelius Vanderbilt, divorced wife of Henry Gassaway Davis III; * to Robert Livingston Stevens, whose grandfather founded Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J.; in Ridgewood, N. J.
Divorced. Cinemactress Sigrid Gurie, Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y.'s "Norwegian Garbo"; from Thomas W. Stewart; in Los Angeles, Calif. Grounds: "My husband slapped me, threatened to thrash me, and said he would lock me out of the house."
Died. Jack Dunn, 21, sleek, handsome British Olympic skater; of terminal pneumonia brought on by tularemia (also known as deer fly or rabbit fever); in Hollywood. Last month he got his first part--to play Rudolph Valentino in a scheduled cinema on the life of the late star, who died just as unexpectedly twelve years ago.
Died. Gladys Munn Pulitzer, 45, wife of the late Joseph Pulitzer's youngest son, former New York World Publisher Herbert Pulitzer; of tuberculosis; at La Jolla, Calif.
Died. Arthur Francis Mullen, 65, longtime (1916-20; 1924-33) Nebraska Democratic National Committeeman, vice-chairman of the 1932 Democratic Campaign Committee, later a lobbyist in Washington; of gastric ulcers; in Omaha, Neb.
Died. Robert Burns Robertson, 76, longtime (1912-26) resident architect of Windsor Castle, onetime (1923-24) president of the Windsor & Eton Scientific and Archaeological Society; of heart disease; in Mount Vernon, N. Y.
* Who later married Grace Vanderbilt's cousin Consuclo Vanderbilt Smith, daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt. Mr. Davis is the only known man who has married two Vanderbilts.
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