Monday, May. 09, 1938
Married. Anne Ferelith Bowes-Lyon, 20, niece of England's Queen Elizabeth; and Viscount Anson, 25, son & heir of the Earl of Lichfield; in London, by the Archbishop of Canterbury. On hand were Queen Elizabeth, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose.
Married. Walter Percy Chrysler Jr., 28, elder son of Motorman Chrysler and president of the W. P. Chrysler Building Corp.; and Marguerite ("Peggy") Sykes, Manhattan ex-debutante; in Manhattan.
Married. Grand Duchess Kyra Kirillovna of the Romanoffs, 29, younger daughter of Grand Duke Cyril, first cousin of Russia's late Tsar Nicholas II; and Prince Louis Ferdinand of the Hohenzollerns, 30, second son of ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany; in Potsdam, Germany.
Divorced. John Randolph Hearst, 28, third son of Publisher William Randolph Hearst; by his second wife, Gretchen Wilson Hearst; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Mrs. Hearst testified her husband had shattered her nerves, impaired her health.
Died. Virgil D. Giannini, 38, younger son of San Francisco's Big Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini (Bank of America); of a cerebral hemorrhage resulting from a fall in the Giannini home; in San Francisco.
Died. Robert Tait McKenzie, 70, long-time (1904-30) director of physical education at the University of Pennsylvania and able, prolific sculptor of athletes, soldiers, Boy Scouts; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. His most noted work was his Scottish-American War Memorial which now stands just off Edinburgh's Princes Street.
Died. William Henry Griffith, 81, legendary discoverer of pink lemonade; of cancer; in Three Bridges, N. J. The legend: while he was tending a circus refreshment stand in the 1870s, an actress' pair of red tights dropped into his lemonade bucket, colored the drink pale pink.
Died. John Manuel Landon, 81, oilman-father of Alfred Mossman Landon; of heart disease; in Kansas City, Mo.
Died. Edward Tuck, 95, famed philanthropist; of a lung disease; in Monte Carlo. At 40 he retired from business, gave millions to Dartmouth College and French charities, was one of two Americans ever made an honorary citizen of Paris* and one of the few ever to be awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor.
*The other Woodrow Wilson.
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