Monday, Nov. 07, 1932
Engaged. Elisabeth Morrow, 29, eldest daughter of the late U. S. Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow; and Aubrey Niel Morgan, member of the Welsh banking firm of David Morgan, Ltd., founded by his grandfather. Miss Morrow, who was once reported engaged to her brother-in-law Charles Augustus Lindbergh and last year to Rev. Clyde H. Roddy of North Arlington, N. J., met Banker Morgan in 1930 when she accompanied her father to the London Naval Conference.
Married. Alec Waugh, 34, English author (That American Woman, Hot Countries, latest: Thirteen Such Years); and one Joan Chirnside, Australian; in London.
Married. Ella Walker Matuschka Hyde, divorced wife of U. S. Financier James Hazen Hyde; and Prince Alexander of Thurn-and-Taxis, 51; in Italy.
Married. Edna Hoyt Warburton Lord, Manhattan socialite, for the third time; and Roderick Tower, son of the late U. S. Ambassador to Russia and Minister to Austria, Charlemagne Tower, for the second time; in Paris.
Separated, Actress Lenore Ulric (Kiki, Lulu Belle); and Actor Sidney Blackmer. Agreed: They will not "molest" each other.
Honored. Mrs. Elias Compton, by an LL. D. from Western College for Women (Oxford, Ohio) for being mother of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's President Karl Taylor Compton, Nobel Prizeman Arthur Holly Compton of Chicago and Economist Wilson Martindale Compton; Dr. Roberts Andrews Millikan (cosmic ray opponent of Arthur Holly Compton), by the Outstanding Service medal of the Roosevelt Memorial Association; Journalist Walter Lippmann, by appointment as Chancellor of Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.); Author Stephen Vincent Benet, by $500 first prize in the O. Henry Memorial Prize for a story, "An End to Dreams''; Social Worker Jane Addams (Chicago's Hull House), by an LL. D. from Swarthmore College; Copper Man Daniel Cowan Jackling, by the John Fritz Gold Medal (top engineering award) for making 2% copper ore profitable; Film Actress Greta Garbo, by an open letter asking that Sweden's King Gustaf give her a gold medal as one of Sweden's "foremost ambassadors."
Died, Margaret Tobin Brown ("Unsinkable Mrs. Brown"), 65, relict of Denver's famed Miner James Brown, heroine of the S. S. Titanic disaster; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. After meeting "Leadville John" Brown at the bottom of a mine shaft, marrying him in three weeks, she tried to spend his $10,000,000 fortune in philanthropy, bizarre clothes and crashing Newport and European society. In a Titanic lifeboat she took her turn at the oars before rescue by the S. S. Carpathia.
Died. Dr. Stanley Marshall Rinehart, 65, heart & lung specialist, business manager for his wife, Author Mary Roberts Rinehart, author (The Commonsense of Health ) of arthritis; in Washington, D. C.
Died. John F. Barrett, 73, longtime Chicago grain trader, member of the Chicago Board of Trade since 1881; in Chicago. He was famed as a weather guesser, basing his guesses on the direction of the prevailing winds on the Catholic prayer & fast days before each solstice & equinox (ember-days). He bet the temperature would not go to zero between Dec. 20, 1930 and March 1, 1931, collected $1,250 from fellow Board members.
Died. Horace Kent Tenney, 73, Chicago lawyer (Tenney, Harding, Sherman & Rogers); of heart disease; in Winnetka, Ill. Famed cases: representing four Manhattan banks v. the Insull utility companies (lost, appealed, won), the children of the late Lady Curzon (Mary Leiter) to remove Joseph Leiter as trustee of Levi Leiter's estate (lost), the Chicago Tribune v. Henry Ford in Ford's suit for libel (award: 6-c-).
Died. Frederick Fremont Ingram, 76, "Father of the U. S. Parcel Post System," founder of Detroit's Frederick F. Ingram & Co. (pharmaceutical products); in San Diego, Calif.
Died. Charles A. Brownell, 79, long-time dean of Detroit advertising men, president until 1912 of Brownell & Humphrey (sold out to J. Walter Thompson), advertising manager for Ford Motor Co. (1912-18), manager with two sons of the Ford State agency in Alabama; in Birmingham, Ala. He wrote some of the first automobile advertising copy when cars used tillers instead of steering wheels (Oldsmobile, Packard, Northern which later became Studebaker).
Died. Gilda Ruta Cagnazzi, 79, one of history's few able female composers; in total obscurity, of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. A mother of two & widowed at 27, she turned to composing, wrote more than 125 compositions for piano & orchestra, played before Italy's Queen Margherita at Rome's Costanzi, won a gold medal at the International Exposition in Florence, ended her career giving piano lessons in Manhattan's Greenwich Village.
Died, Sophie Engastromenos Schliemann, 80, archaeologist, relict of the late great Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann who uncovered an ancient town which he claimed to be Troy; in Athens. After 15 years of woe with his first wife, whom he divorced, Schliemann asked the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens to pick a Greek bride for him, "of the true Greek type, black-haired and, if possible, beautiful." The Archbishop picked Sophie, 16, who lived happily with Schliemann for 21 years until his death in 1890.
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