Monday, Jan. 25, 1932
Married. Elliott Roosevelt, 21, second son of Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, partner in Kelly, Nason & Roosevelt, Manhattan advertising firm (he entered business in 1929, instead of entering Princeton University); and Elizabeth Browning Donner, 20, daughter of Wil. Ham Henry Donner, board chairman of Pennsylvania Steel Co., founder of the towns of Monessen and Donora, Pa. and of Donner Steel Co.; in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Present were Governor & Mrs. Roosevelt, many a socialite, and the groom's three brothers.
Married. Hortense Henry, granddaughter of Packer Edward Foster Swift; and Gordon Phelps Kelley, son of William Vallandigham Kelley, board chairman of Miehle Printing Press & Manufacturing Co., onetime (1905-1912) president of American Steel Foundries; in Chicago.
Married. Wilbur Daniel Steele, 45, four times winner of the O. Henry Memorial Award for the best short story; and Mrs. Hayden Talbot (Norma Mitchell), actress, playwright, co-author of Cradle Snatchers; in London.
Married, Marion Margery Scranton, direct descendant of the founders of Scranton, Pa., daughter of Worthington Scranton, onetime president of Scranton Gas & Water Co.; and one Edward Mayer, of Manhattan; in Scranton.
Marriage Revealed, Elsie Janis Bierbower (Elsie Janis), 42, retired actress, mimic, "Sweetheart of the A.E.F."; and one Gilbert Wilson, 26; in Tarrytown, N. Y. For U. S. troops she gave 610 one-girl shows in France during the War. Said she: "Well, I've never had a child. Now I have a husband and--a child, too."
Honored. Juan de la Cierva and Harold F. Pitcairn; with the John Scott Award of $1,000 for "ingenious men and women who make useful inventions;" for the invention and development, respectively, of the autogiro; in Philadelphia.
Appointed, Henry G. Brock, onetime Philadelphia banker; to be a trustee of Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary, where he once served a manslaughter sentence for killing three persons while driving an automobile under the influence of liquor.*
Appointed, Dr. Elliott Carr Cutler, director of surgery at Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland, Harvard 1909; to succeed his onetime teacher and friend, Dr. Harvey Williams Gushing, as Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and surgeon-in-chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Both were famed as surgeons on the Western Front.
Resigning. Dr. Arthur Stanley Pease, A. B., M. A., Ph. D. (Harvard), famed classicist; as president of Amherst College; to become professor of Latin & Greek at Harvard. An earnest, retiring pundit, Dr. Pease is little known to his students. He facially resembles Amherst's Trustee Calvin Coolidge, who is spoken of (without much reason) as his successor.
Birthdays. The famed morsel of live chicken heart, nurtured by Dr. Alexis Carrel in the laboratory of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 20; Mrs. Jeanette Lauchheimer and Mrs. Henriette Dannenbaum, twins, 100; Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, sixth son of Charles Dickens, 83; John Van Buren Thayer, vice president of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 80;* Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, 79; David Lloyd George, 69; Carl Laemmle, 65; Felix Moritz Warburg, 61.
Died, Dowager Queen Sophie, 61, exiled queen of Greece, sister of Wilhelm Hohenzollern; of cancer; in Frankfurt-am-Main. (See p. 16.)
Died. Frederick De Mund MacKay, 66, horseman, vice president & director of E. W. Bliss Co. (torpedoes); one day before he was to be elected president of the National Horse Show Association; of intestinal influenza; in Brooklyn.
Died. John Wesley Langley, 69, famed U. S. Representative (1907-26) from the Tenth Kentucky District; of pneumonia; in Pikeville, Ky.
Died. Sir Sidney Low, 76, famed British historian, father-in-law of Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs; /- of heart failure caused by asthma; in London.
Died. Rt. Rev. Charles Gore, 78, retired Bishop of Oxford; of influenza and pleurisy; in London. A famed Anglo-Catholic, he long sought rapprochement between Roman Catholics and Anglicans. Bishop Gore proposed a federation of churches with the Pope as First Bishop, but he balked at Papal Infallibility. Though no Modernist, he scoffed at Jonah's Whale.
Died. John Bird Swift, 81, longtime president and board chairman of the Eagle-Picher Lead Co.; after a short illness; in Cincinnati.
Erratum. Mrs. Alice Muller Gossler who last month divorced Philip Green Gossler, president & director of Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., at Reno, divorced her first husband, the late Joseph Kittredge Choate, at the same place in 1919; was not, as TIME unintentionally implied, divorced by him.
* Pardoned in 1926, he has since devoted his time to welfare work, is a member of the Philadelphia County Board of Prisons.
* First deal: sent with a dime to buy a quart of milk in a glass pitcher, he received a silver 3C-piece in change. Returning he tripped on the curb, fell, bit his tongue, broke the pitcher, spilt the milk, and swallowed the 3c-piece.
/- Forthright, tart-tongued, intellectual, is Daughter Ivy Litvinov. Often a member of Russian delegations in her own right, at Geneva in 1929 she termed U. S. Ambassador Gibson "a contemptible little bounder." A dabbler in literature, she has a mystery thriller to her credit. In Moscow it is her duty to give the best, biggest official parties.
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