Monday, Nov. 20, 1933
Born, To George Terry Dunlap Jr., U. S. amateur golf champion (TIME, Sept. 25), and Kay Vogel Dunlap; a daughter. Weight: 6 1/2 Ib. Name: Kay Terry.
Seeking Divorce, Kitty Owen Meeker, 28, daughter of U. S. Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Owen, granddaughter of the late William Jennings Bryan: William Painter Meeker, Baltimore lawyer, in Miami. Grounds: cruelty.
Seeking Divorce. Luella Gear Heckscher, musicomedienne (Gay Divorce); from G. Maurice Heckscher, Manhattan realtor, son of Philanthropist August Heckscher. Charge: mental cruelty.
Retired. Philip Hale, 79, dean of U. S. music critics; as critic for the Boston Herald and program annotator for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A onetime lawyer, he studied music in Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Paris, became an organist and choral conductor, a newspaper critic in 1890. As Herald critic since 1903, he was famed for witty, lucid, learned writing, for his bright Windsor ties and for the green felt bag which he carried almost everywhere.
Birthdays. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 77; Samuel Insull, 74; King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, 64; Marie Dressier, 62.
Died. Robert White, 21, Princeton University senior, youngest son of Governor George White of Ohio; of injuries suffered when an automobile in which he was driving two companions to Manhattan after the Princeton-Dartmouth football game (at Princeton), skidded and struck a tree; near Bellemead, N. J.*
Died. Andrew Rattray, 51, professional big game hunter and zebra farmer, son-in-law of Viscount Furness; after an operation; in Nairobi, British East Africa.
Died. Jesse Hickman Mellett, 52, three times Mayor of Anderson, Ind., brother of Canton, Ohio's assassinated Publisher Don R. Mellett (TIME, July 26; Aug. 2, 1926); after long illness; in Anderson, Ind.
Died. Edwin A. Davis, 52, onetime vice president and comptroller of Samuel Insull's Middle West Utilities Co.; by his own hand (pistol); in Los Angeles. His wife said he despaired at not finding new employment.
Died, Dr. Burton James Lee, 59, cancer specialist, clinical professor of surgery at Cornell Medical College, director of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital for Cancer, president of the American Radium Society; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan.
Died. Rear Admiral Ridley McLean, 61, commander of Battleship Division 3, author of The Bluejacket's Manual; suddenly, on board his temporary flagship Nevada; in San Francisco Bay.
Died. Dr. Leo Motzkin, 66, Russian-born Zionist leader, chairman of the League of Nations Committee of Jewish Delegations, president of last summer's World Congress of Zionists: of heart disease; in Paris.
Died. Andrea Liaptcheff, 66, onetime (1926-31) Premier of Bulgaria; of cancer; in Sofia.
Died. Dr. John Emmans DeMund, 67, retired Brooklyn nose & throat specialist and sportsman, longtime (1923-32) president of the American Kennel Club, onetime Department of Justice secret agent; of heart disease, after long illness; in Montclair, N. J.
Died. Thomas Penney, 74, Buffalo lawyer, prosecutor (as district attorney) of Leon Czolgosz (executed assassin of President McKinley); in Buffalo.
Died. William Dick (Makwa Monpuy or Maq-uua-pey), 76, certified by ethnologists as actually "the last of the Mohicans''; in Milwaukee's County Hospital. With no one to talk to in the melodious Mohican tongue he learned from his grandmother, he was able to recall only 300 words of it for a University of Chicago anthropologist last year.
Died. Marshal Baron Yusaku Uyehara, 77, onetime War Minister of Japan (1912-13), Chief of Military Education (1914), Chief of General Staff (1918-23); of heart disease; in Tokyo.
Died. Richard Rogers Bowker, 85, publisher, author, retired utilitarian; at his home near Stockbridge, Mass. Indefatigable in 19th Century politics, he founded the ''Mugwump'' Party (first called the ''Young Scratchers") which swung the 1880 Republican convention to Garfield. He founded the American Library Association.
Died. Louis Jean Baptiste Lepine, 87, "The Little Man with the Big Stick," longtime (1893-1913) Prefect of the Paris Police; in Paris. He introduced bulletproof vests and sulphuric acid capsules (forerunner of tear gas): the Bertillon identification system: the "Mouqin merry-go-round," "sedative marches" and the "ambulance dodge"--ruses to keep ugly-tempered crowds from forming.
Died. "Mom," 92, biggest female elephant in the U. S., property of Dr. Pierre A. ("Oom the Omnipotent") Bernard; of cardiac rheumatism; in Nyack, N. Y. Circus Romancer Courtney Ryley Cooper sped to Nyack to attend her last moments.
*Found on the Princeton campus night after the game was the body of Jay Franklin Towner III, son of a Baltimore vegetable packer. When an autopsy disclosed internal injuries, broken wrists, face abrasions, police surmised that he was crushed in the crowd leaving Palmer Stadium, picked up by someone who intended taking him to the infirmary but dropped him on discovering that he was dead.
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