Monday, Aug. 22, 1938
Engaged. Sally Poor Clark, 18, nightclub singing sister-in-law of John Aspinwall Roosevelt; and George Xavier McLanahan, 25; in Nahant, Mass.
Married. Sylvia Sidney (nee Kosow), 28, cinemactress, divorced wife of Publisher Bennett ("Beans") Cerf (Random House); and Luther Adler, 35, actor (Golden Boy), youngest son of the late Tragedian Jacob P. Adler of the Royal Family of the Yiddish theatre; in London.
Died. Daniel George Dodge, 21, heir to the $9,000,000 fortune of the late Automobileman John Dodge, in Georgian Bay, near Little Current, Ontario. Honeymooning with his two-weeks' bride, a former telephone operator and daughter of a tugboat captain, Heir Dodge picked up a stick of dynamite in the garage at his camp. It exploded, cracked his skull and tore off his left arm. With friends' help, his wife, seriously hurt herself, put him in a speedboat, started to drive to a doctor across the bay. Pain-crazed, Daniel Dodge jumped overboard, drowned.
Died. Dr. Leo Frobenius, 65, explorer, ethnologist, anthropologist; at Intra, Lake Maggiore, Italy. In 1912, Frobenius opened up the richest continental deposit of cave paintings and engravings on the first of his twelve African expeditions, subsequently became recognized as a top-rank authority on prehistory. Selections from the mammoth Frobenius collection at Frankfurt-am-Main were last year giving a whopping exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME, May 10, 1937).
Died. Samuel Carson Pirie, 74, yacht-racing board chairman and son of one of the founders of Carson Pirie Scott & Co., Chicago's second largest department store (largest: Marshall Field & Co.); of chronic myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart); at Newport, R. I. Sportsman Pirie's brother John Taylor Pirie, 66, is the store's president, Son Samuel Carson Pirie Jr. is in its retail merchandising division, Second Cousin Samuel Pirie Carson is store operations manager. There are five other Piries, all kin, no other Carsons, in Carson Pirie Scott. Of Scotts there are four left.
Died. Antonio Ajello, 78, master candlemaker; of a heart attack; in The Bronx, New York. To Mussolini, Pope Pius XI, Lindbergh, Galli-Curci, Marie of Rumania, many another big & little wig have gone sweet-scented Ajello tapers, fashioned from a formula that has been a family secret for 165 years. Most famed Ajello candle, world's largest, is 18 feet high and five feet around, weighs almost a ton, cost $3,700. Raised by public subscription in 1921 as a memorial to Enrico Caruso, it now stands in the Church of Our Lady of Pompeii (Italy), where it burns only on All Souls' Day. Antonio Ajello once estimated it will last 1,800 years.
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