Monday, Nov. 20, 1939

MILESTONES

Married. Lady Anne Hope, 25, daughter of the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India; and Lieutenant P. H. J. Southby, R. N., 26, aide to the Marquess, son of Sir Archibald Southby, M. P.; in New Delhi, India. After the ceremony, the Marquess, in viceregal tradition, treated 5,000 Delhi poor to a meal.

Married. Sir Lancelot Oliphant, 58, tall, dome-headed British Ambassador to Belgium, and Christine, Viscountess Churchill; in London. Viscountess Churchill was divorced last year from Lieut. Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham, rich Manhattan bibliophile who in 1927 discovered and bagged the long-lost "Boswell papers."

Died. George Denver Guggenheim, 32, millionaire bachelor son and only remaining child of Philanthropist Simon Guggenheim; by his own hand (rifle) in a Manhattan hotel. Member of the executive committee and a director of American Smelting and Refining Co., of which his father is president, a director of General Cable Corp., trustee of a $1,000,000 trust fund, George Guggenheim suffered from a nervous disorder, had recently tried to slash his wrists. When his brother, John Simon, died in 1922 of mastoiditis, his parents established in his memory the famed Guggenheim Foundation (for international study), now capitalized at $7,500,000.

Died. Doktor Heinrich Ritter von Neumann 66, world-famed Austrian ear & throat specialist, himself partially deaf; of a gastric ailment; in Manhattan, where he had gone to assist in resettlement of Jewish refugees. His skill brought him summonses from Kings Edward VIII of England, Alphonso of Spain, Carol of Rumania, George of Greece, many a penniless sufferer. Only patient he refused to treat: Adolf Hitler.

Died. Dr. Livingston Farrand, 72, modest, beloved president-emeritus of Cornell University; of bronchopneumonia and empyema; in Manhattan. A public health authority, a physician by training, he took leave of absence from the presidency of the University of Colorado (1914-19) to direct a civilian war against tuberculosis in France, stayed to guide Red Cross rehabilitation of millions of eastern and central European children.

Died. Sir Charles W. Lindsay, 83, blind Canadian philanthropist, a piano-tuner who built up a $2,000,000 musical instrument business, was knighted in 1935 for his donations and services to the blind; of paralysis; in Montreal.

Died. Harrison Robertson, 83, editor-in-chief of the Louisville Courier-Journal who in 1885 was given charge of the editorial page by the late famed publisher Colonel Henry ("Marse Henry") Watterson; of a heart attack; in Louisville, Ky.

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