Monday, Dec. 20, 1937
Engaged. Randolph Apperson Hearst, 21, youngest (with his twin David) of William Randolph Hearst's five sons; and Catherine Wood Campbell, 20, of Atlanta, Ga.
Engaged. Peter Gerald Lehman, 21, son of New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman; to Peggy Lashanska Rosenbaum, 18, daughter of Concert Singer Hulda Lashanska; in Manhattan.
Married. Robert Dollar II, 25, grandson of the late "Captain" Robert Dollar, founder of the shipping dynasty; to Charlotte Dean, 25, daughter of Sacramento's City Manager; in Sacramento, Calif.
Married. Novelist John O'Hara (Appointment in Samarra, Butter field 8); and Belle Wylie, Manhattan socialite; in Elkton, Md.
Divorced. Faye Albertson Lippmann; from Pundit Walter Lippmann; in Bradenton, Fla. Grounds: extreme cruelty, a violent, ungovernable temper (TIME, Nov. 1).
Divorced. Constance Worth, Australian cinemactress; from George Brent, Irish cinemactor; in Los Angeles. Charge: he was sullen during the 35 days they lived together, refused to explain overnight absences.
Died. Ernst Lissauer, German poet, on his 55th birthday; in Vienna. In 1914 Lissauer won world notice by his Wartime poem, Hymn of Hate Against England. Typical lines:
By shell from sea, by bomb from the air
Our greeting shall be spread,
Making each English homestead
A mansion of the dead.
Died. Harry Guyer Leslie, 59, onetime (1929-33) Republican Governor of Indiana; of a heart ailment; in Miami Beach, Fla.
Died. Arthur Davenport Black, 67, for 20 years dean of Northwestern University's Dental School, son of the late great Greene Vardiman Black ("Father of American Dentistry") whose statue stands in Chicago's Lincoln Park; of leukemia ; in Chicago.
Died. Florence Griswold, 86, "foster-mother" of the American Barbizon School of Painters; after long illness; in Old Lyme, Conn. "Miss Florence's" great grandfather and grandfather were both governors of Connecticut; her father was Captain Robert Griswold of the London packet Ocean Queen. Boarders in her stately, elm-shaded house in the early 1900s included Chauncey Ryder, Henry W. Ranger, Childe Hassam, Clark Voorhees, other U. S. Impressionists. Last year when she became too poor to keep her house, former New York State Supreme Court Justice Robert McCurdy Marsh bought it, gave her a free lease for life.
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