Monday, Dec. 10, 1928
Born. To Clarence Hungerford Mackay of Manhattan; his first grandson, Irving Berlin Jr., the son of Songwriter Irving Berlin & Mrs. Berlin (Ellin Mackay); in Manhattan.
Engaged. John Coolidge, son of the President; and Florence Trumbull, daughter of Gov. John H. Trumbull of Connecticut.
Married. Arnold Horween, Harvard football coach; to Marion Eisendrath, daughter of the late William H. Eisendrath, Chicago leather tycoon; in Chicago.
Married. Nanette Guilford (nee Gut-man), 23, "baby star" of the Metropolitan Opera Company; to Max Rosen, 28, concert violinist; in Manhattan.
Married. Count Folke Bernadotte, nephew of King Gustaf of Sweden; to Estelle Romaine Manville, Manhattan debutante, descendant of Jeoffrey de Mag-navil, ally of William the Conqueror; in Pleasantville, N. Y.
Married. Mrs. Elizabeth Baker Ritchie, onetime wife of Gov. Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland; to Dr. Francis I. Proctor; Boston eye specialist; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. So circumspectly was Mrs. Ritchie's divorce obtained in 1916 that many Maryland voters are unaware that Gov. Ritchie has ever been married.
Married. Edna Best, 28, English actress, and Herbert Marshall, 38, English actor, co-stars of Frederick Lonsdale's The High Road, current Broadway comedy; in Jersey City, N. Y.
Married. Sebastian S. Kresge, 61, famed 5 & 10 cent store tycoon, lavish Anti-Salooner, of Highland Park, Mich.; to Mrs. Clara K. Swaine, 34, of Cresco, Pa., daughter of a late Bronx insurance examiner; in Kunkletown, Pa. In 1897 Mr. Kresge married Anna E. Harvey of Memphis; she divorced him in 1924, obtained a $10,000,000 settlement for herself, $5,000,000 for each of their five children. In 1924 Mr. Kresge married Mabel D. Mercer of Pittsburgh, daughter of Capt. George A. Mercer, onetime partner of Andrew Carnegie. Last February she divorced him, obtained a settlement of about $10,000,000. Mr. Kresge's fortune has been estimated as $265,000,000.
Sued for Divorce. Russell Sturgis Codman Jr., Boston real estate broker, famed international oarsman, graduate of Groton & Harvard; by Mrs. Elinor Medill Patterson Codman of Chicago, onetime Nun in The Miracle, daughter of famed Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson (see p. 48).
Remarried. Louis Untermeyer, Manhattan poet; to Jean Starr Untermeyer, Manhattan poetess. In 1926 Poet Untermeyer divorced Poetess Starr to marry Poetess Virginia Moore. Said Poet Untermeyer: "I remarried my first wife because I usually love her."
Elected. Peter Hurll, English representative of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; to be a director of the company, succeeding the late George Henry Jones (TIME, Dec. 3).
Died. Admiral Reinhold Scheer, 65, commander of the German Imperial High Seas Fleet at the Battle of Jutland, May 31, 1916; of heart disease; in Marktred-witz, Germany. Famed -British Admiral Earl Beatty, whose battle cruisers met Scheer at Jutland, wrote to the London Daily Express: "He was a great sailor and a bold and skillful tactician."
Died. William Bradford Merrill, 67, since 1917 general manager of the Hearst newspapers; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.
Died. Frank Hedges Butler, 72, famed British wine merchant, pioneer aeronaut, traveler, amateur musician, author; in London. In 1901 Mr. Butler founded the Royal Aero Club. With his balloons he won races, set records, made several Channel crossings. With his violin he played at the Handel Festival in 1874. He wrote Wine.
Died. Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher (retired), 73, commander of the Atlantic Fleet (1914-15), ordnance inventor (gun mounts, telescopic sights, breech mechanism), who directed the occupation of Vera Cruz in 1914; after a cancer operation; in Manhattan.
Died. Hallam, Lord Tennyson, 76, biographer and only surviving son of the late famed Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson; of congestion of the lungs; at his home in Freshwater, Isle of Wight.
Died. William Henry Eustis, 83, famed Minneapolis lawyer, philanthropist, onetime Mayor; in Minneapolis. Lawyer Eustis, a cripple from the age of 15, gave his entire fortune of $1,500,000 for a hospital for crippled children, stipulating that his name not be given to the trust--"since the name of the donor would, in a generation or two at most, be forgotten."
Died. Capt. Henry M. Cattermole, 87, who for 45 years (1860-1905) piloted a ferryboat between Staten Island and Manhattan for the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, other employers; in Stapleton, S. I. During the blizzard of 1888 Capt. Cattermole made his five-mile voyage in nJf hours.
Died. Ezra Meeker, 97, famed pioneer and Seattle farmer, who crossed over the Oregon Trail to the Northwest by ox-team in 1852, who returned by ox-team to Washington, D. C., in 1906; after a long illness; in Seattle.
Died. Captain John Donnell Smith, 99, oldest living graduate of Yale (1847), famed and traveled botanist, onetime cotton planter, railroad official, veteran of the Confederate army; of pneumonia; in Baltimore. Captain Smith never returned to visit his alma mater.