Milestones

Engaged. Thomas George Paul ("Tommy") Farr, 24, heavyweight boxing champion of Great Britain; to Eileen Wenzel, 27, former Ziegfeld Follies dancer, who in 1936 won a $40,774 damage suit from Louis J. Ehret Jr., brewery heir, on the grounds that an automobile crash had "marred her beauty and lessened her prospects of a favorable marriage."

Seeking Annulment. Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie Odlum Dominici, head of Manhattan's swankshop Bonwit Teller and former wife of investment trust Tycoon Floyd B. Odlum; of her marriage to Dr. Porfilio Dominici, Dominican physician; in Manhattan. Grounds: that she had been deceived about her husband's social and financial status by "fraud, conspiracy and misrepresentation."

Divorced. Robert Bangs Colgate, vice president of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co.; by Pamela Camroux Colgate; in Reno.

Died. Kubec Glasmon, 40, Polish-born screen writer; of heart disease; in Beverly Hills, Calif. A druggist during Prohibition on Chicago's gang-infested West Side, short, mild-mannered Kubec Glasmon teamed up with an ex-newshawk, John Bright, wrote a series of gangster movies, Public Enemy, Smart Money, Blonde Crazy, Taxi.

Died. Floyd Orlin Hale, 55, president of Illinois Bell Telephone Co.; after long illness; in Hartford, Conn. A Dartmouth alumnus (1903), he was stricken with a heart attack at New Haven last fall in the closing minutes of the Yale-Dartmouth football game when Yale came from behind to tie the score (TIME, Nov. 8), never recovered.

Died. John Wing Prentiss, 62, investment banker, one of the senior partners of Hornblower & Weeks; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Influential in much automobile financing (Dodge, General Motors, Hudson), he told the Board of Tax Appeals in 1927 that he had thrice offered Henry Ford $1,000,000,000 for Ford Motors. He died the day after the New York Stock Exchange adopted its new constitution, which he helped draft.

Died. Mrs. Elinor Miriam Frost, 65, wife of famed Poet Robert Frost; of a heart attack; in Gainesville, Fla.

Died. Harry Wardman, 65, Washington real-estate magnate; of cancer; in Washington. An English-born immigrant, he had seven shillings in his pocket when he arrived in Manhattan in 1892 after he had boarded a boat which he supposed was carrying him to Australia. Starting as a contractor's timekeeper, he entered the construction business in Washington, built upwards of 9,000 row houses, several hotels and apartment houses, was said to have been landlord to one in every ten Washingtonians. In 1930, when Hotel Management & Securities Corp. took over his apartments and hotels, he lost most of his fortune, estimated at $30,000,000 before Depression.

Died. Helena Woolworth McCann, wife of Manhattan Lawyer Charles E. F. McCann and eldest daughter of the late 5-c--&-10-c- store magnate, Frank Winfield Woolworth; after short illness; in Manhattan. A director of F. W. Woolworth Co., she helped support the Metropolitan Opera Company, the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, three years ago gave to her three children more than $15,000,000.

Died. Chuji Egawa, president of the Japanese Suicide Club to whose influence is attributed over 10,000 suicides; of tuberculosis; in Tokyo. Immediately two of his disciples committed suicide.

Died. Prince Hadji Tahar ben Mohammed Ibn Saud Wahabi, Sherif Hashmi, 108, Arabian-born soldier of fortune; of cancer; in Manhattan. In 1876, when he was 47, Prince Hadji first visited the U. S. as head of a troupe of Arabian acrobats, dancers and horsemen at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia; in 1893 and in 1933 he supervised the building of Oriental cities for the Chicago Fairs.

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