Monday, Nov. 21, 1932
Born. To Dr. John Robert Gregg, 65 (Gregg Shorthand System); and Janet Fraser Kinley Gregg, 32, daughter of University of Illinois' President Emeritus David Kinley; a daughter. Name: Kate Kinley Gregg. Weight: 8 1/4lb.
Born. To Mme Paul Gorgulov, relict of French President Paul Doumer's assassin (TIME, May 16, et seq.); a daughter; in Paris.
Engaged. Diana Churchill, 23, eldest daughter of British Tory Winston Churchill; and John Milner Bailey, 32, eldest son of Transvaal Gold Man Sir Abe Bailey, stepson of British Aviatrix Hon. Dame Mary Bailey.
Married. John Davison Rockefeller III, 26, Princeton graduate, by occupation "associated with father''; and Blanchette Ferry Hooker, 23. Vassar graduate, youngest daughter of Elon Huntington Hooker, financier, engineer, electrochemist; in Manhattan. In the Rockefeller-built Riverside Baptist Church, the world's No. 1 nonroyal heir, tall and saturnine, took a Rockefeller-worthy bride, tall, handsome, healthy. Aloft, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller (grandmother) carillon pealed its world's biggest 72 bells. Outside was a mob with news sense, pleased because the bride smiled at large as she walked into the church. Inside were 2,500 Rockefeller & Hooker friends, socialites, bankers, no grandfather, for John Davison Rockefeller, 93, departed for Ormond Beach, Fla. two days before the wedding to avoid public exposure. After an organ prelude including Bach's Prelude in E flat minor from "The Well-Tempered Clavichord" and "Blessed Jesu. We Are Here," the grave young bride followed the procession 250 ft. up an aisle banked in white chrysanthemums and Japanese pink lilies. Facing Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick and a chancel hedged with tall cypress trees, boxwood and more chrysanthemums, Groom Rockefeller ended the ceremony with the unusual words, "With this ring I thee wed and promise thee a husband's protection and care." The bride wore a short veil, severe gown, long train; she carried a bouquet of white pansies and white orchids with mauve centres; the bridesmaids wore short veils instead of hats. Best man: Brother Nelson Aldrich. Ushers: groom's three brothers, one cousin, one brother-in-law, Princetonites Edward W. Brown ('28), Roommate Benson Blake III ('29), William F. Cochran Jr. ('29), Homer P. Cochran ('29), James Carey ('29), Latimer S. Steward ('29) and Dr. O. Currier McEwen, assistant dean of New York University's Medical College. At the reception and dance at Manhattan's socialite Colony Club, guests who remembered John Davison Rockefeller Jr.'s preElection switch in favor of Volstead Act repeal investigated the punch, found it strictly nonalcoholic. Afterwards Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller III left for a month's honeymoon in Bermuda.* secretly boarded the S. S. American Legion, on which was a party of newshawks on vacation. Reception guests: Henry Ford. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, Harold Fowler McCormick. Chase National Bank President Winthrop Williams Aldrich. Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont.
Married. Princess Emeline de Broglie, great-granddaughter of Sewing Machine Inventor Isaac Merritt Singer; and Count Alexandre de Casteja; in Neuilly, France.
Married. Harriet Stanton De Forest, daughter of Inventor Lee De Forest by first of three marriages; and Marshall C. Allaben Jr., Greenwich real estate man; in Greenwich. Conn. The wedding date was the birthday anniversary of the bride's maternal great-grandmother. Suffraget Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Divorced, Ruth Goldstein; by Julius J. Goldstein, Manhattan silk merchant; in Manhattan. Grounds: misconduct with Cartoonist Robert L. ("Believe It or Not") Ripley.
Sentenced. Jean Martin, burlesque showgirl: to an indeterminate sentence in Bedford Reformatory for strangling her roommate, Showgirl Florence ("Babe") Miller, to death with her hands; in Manhattan.
Birthdays. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 76; Samuel Insull, 73; Italy's King Victor Emmanuel, 63.
Died. Nadezhda Sergeivna Alliluieva Stalin, 30, second wife of Josef Stalin, 53; in Moscow (see p. 16).
Died. Abraham E. Lefcourt, 55, Manhattan realtor; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Onetime newsboy and bootblack, he had total Manhattan realty holdings in 1928 of more than $50.000.000. had perhaps razed more historic landmarks, raised more skyscrapers than any other man. Said he, "If something should happen . . . to sweep away every dollar I have in the world ... I could rebuild my fortune in half the time." He planned in 1925 a huge $10,000.000 loft building for his son Alan, 13. Alan died; he put up an eight-story building with his son's bust over the entrance. He was last week defending a suit brought by his stockholders.
Died. Evangeline Adams Jordan, 59, famed astrologer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. She had predicted that she was in "a period of adverse aspects and conditions." Author, radio broadcaster (Forhan's Toothpaste), charging $20 an appointment, she took in about $50.000 a year. Famed forecasts: death of England's King Edward VII ("The stars would be grievously afflicted"), death of Tammany Leader Charles Francis Murphy of acute indigestion ("Unfriendly stomach"). Col. Theodore Roosevelt's defeat by Alfred Emanuel Smith for 1920 New York Governor ("He couldn't be elected to the school board in his native village of Oyster Bay"). Love and money were Evangeline Adams's chief astrological problems; love chiefly before January 1930, money after January 1930. Her specialty: finance.
Died. Rev. Dr. Harry Malcolm Chalfant, 63, a co-founder of the Anti-Saloon League; of pneumonia; in Washington. Pa.
Died. Heinrich Stinnes. 64. art collector, elder brother of the late great Hugo Stinnes; in Cologne.
Died. David Winfield Mulvane, 69. Kansas Republican political boss; of a cerebral hemorrhage: in Topeka; after working late on election returns.
Died. Elie Sheetz, 84, founder of Martha Washington Candy Co., antique collector; in Washington. In President Grant's administration, peddling his candy in Washington's Cabin John Park, he was asked the name, flippantly answered, "Martha Washington" (now 18 factories. TOO stores, over 600 agencies, selling 65 kinds of candy, grossing several millions yearly).
Died. Freda Ehmann, 93, ''mother of the California ripe olive industry," president of Ehmann Olive Co.; of old age; in Piedmont. Calif. In 1896 with her only asset an old olive grove at Oroville (Calif.) she began pickling ripe olives, founded an industry.
* Tvo years ago Brother Nelson married Mary Todhunter Clark, took her for a year's trip around the world.
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