Monday, Oct. 09, 1939

Born. To Yehudi Menuhin, 22, blond, brilliant violinist, and Nola Nicholas Menuhin, 20; a daughter; in San Francisco, Calif. The child, which weighed six pounds, twelve ounces, was given the name Zamira. the Russian word for Peace. Said Father Yehudi, who had watched the operation with a surgical mask over his face: "I want the baby to hate music or love it. I don't want any passivity."

Born. To Ernest Aldrich Simpson, 42, ex-husband of the Duchess of Windsor, and Mary Kirk Raffray Simpson, 43; a son (premature); in London.

Birthday. The Munich ("Peace in Our Time") Conference. Age: one year.

Sued for Divorce. Lionel Hallam Lord Tennyson, 49, cricketing grandson of Poet Alfred Tennyson and author of From Verse to Worse; by Lady Tennyson, 35; in Redwood City, Calif. Grounds: "grievous mental suffering."

Sued for Divorce. Lady Dorothy Whittall Campbell, by Speedster Sir Malcolm Campbell, now heading a British motorcycle militia unit (TIME, Sept. 25); in London.

Divorced. Grant Wood, 47, earthy U. S. artist whose neat, ironic brush has stirred up many a dust storm (American Gothic, Daughters of Revolution, TIME, Sept. 5, 1932); from Sarah Sherman Wood, 55; in Iowa City, Iowa. Grounds: inhuman treatment.

Died. Marvel Mills Logan, 65, since 1931 Democratic Senator from Kentucky; of a heart attack; in Washington, D. C. Massive, sincere, a quiet liberal, Logan rose from a Kentucky small-town law practice to sit as Chief Justice of the State's Court of Appeals; was ready to fight again next session for his major work--a bill that would provide quick judicial review of administrative agencies' quasi-judicial rulings, the first actively-functioning check on New Deal bureaus.

Died. Maclay Hoyne, 66, onetime State's Attorney for Cook County, Ill., feared prosecutor of Chicago's corrupt politicians, labor leaders, policemen, arsonists, wiretappers, clairvoyant racketeers (5,000 convictions in eight years); of uremic poisoning; in Chicago.

Died. John Sanford, 88, millionaire carpet manufacturer and horse racer, father of Poloist Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford; in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., where he had gone to attend the Diamond Jubilee of the Saratoga Racing Association.

Died. John Vaughan Apthorp, 95, oldest Harvard alumnus (1865); in Concord, Mass. His successor: Thomas Wren Ward (1866), 95 on October 8.

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