Monday, Aug. 17, 1936
Married. Alicia du Pont Glendening Llewellyn, 33, adopted daughter of the late Alfred Irenee du Pont; and George Ruddle Kent, 45, of Philadelphia; in Carson City, Nev.
Married-- Mrs. Cora Lillian Bennett, widow of famed Aviator Floyd Bennett; ant Arthur Hoffman, Manhattan music copyright investigator; in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Married. Guy Waggoner, 58, Texas racetrack owner (Arlington Downs), co-administrator of the $100,000,000 oil fortune left by his father, W. T. ("Old Dan") Waggoner; and Virginia Joan Greene, 20, Dallas department store clerk, his sixth wife; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Fortnight ago he divorced his fifth wife, is reported to have paid her $500.000. Said Father Waggoner once: "Anybody who can't appreciate a pretty woman, a fast horse, and a good beef steer--well, something's wrong with his head." Divorced, Mrs. Lou Hoover Dunbar, daughter of retiring Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of Stanford University's School of Engineering, niece of Herbert Hoover; and Ernest A. Dunbar; in San Jose, Calif.
Left. By the late Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green, whose mother, miserly Hetty Green, specified in her will that the family fortune remain intact; to his sister, Mrs. Sylvia Green Wilks, an estate estimated at $80,000,000; in Port Henry, N. Y. Mrs. Mabel Harlow Green got nothing, but was made administrator of the fortune by a Texas judge. Claimed last week by officials of New York, Massachusetts, Texas and the U. S. were $65,000,000 in inheritance taxes.
Left. By the late Mantis James Van Sweringen, Cleveland's onetime railroad and real-estate tycoon; to his brother, Oris Paxton Van Sweringen: an estate of $3,067.85; in Cleveland.
Left. By the late Steelmaster John Long Severance, Cleveland's great patron of arts & music; to the Cleveland Art Museum: whatever its officers choose from his $2,140,252 art collection, which includes Rembrandt's Portrait of a Youth, Sir Thomas Lawrence's Daughters of Colonel Thomas Cartaret Hardy, Van Dyck's "Sir Thomas Hanmer; in Cleveland.
Died, Representative John Jackson McSwain, of South Carolina, 61, since 1932 chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee; of heart attack; in Columbia, S. C.
Died. Lincoln Steffens, 70, famed old-time muckraker; of heart disease; in Carmel, Calif. A bearded, sparkling, elfish skeptic, he exposed Tammany's Boss Croker, Cincinnati's Boss Cox, publicized Cleveland's Reformer Tom Johnson, Wisconsin's Reformer Robert La Follette, concluded in his Autobiography that bosses "seemed more honest" than reformers.
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