Monday, May. 20, 1940
Engaged. Mary Faith McAdoo, 20, daughter of ex-Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, granddaughter of the late Woodrow Wilson; and Gerald Griffith James, 24, a Walt Disney animator; in Los Angeles.
Married. Sir John William Frederick Fagge, 29, farmhand-baronet of Faver-sham, Kent, England (TIME, April 29); and Ivy Frier, housemaid; in Kent. Sir John's fellow volunteer firemen made an archway of hatchets as the couple left the church.
Married. Circusman John Ringling North, 36, president of Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey; and French Cinemactress Germaine Aussey (Germaine Agassis), 30, whom he met while hunting talent in Europe last Christmas; in Philadelphia.
Married. Max Lincoln (Simon &) Schuster, book publisher, 42; and Mrs.
Ray B. Levison, 42, garden designer; he for the first time, she for the second; in San Francisco.
Marriage Denied. By Cinemactress Arline Judge, 28, and Cafe Socialite James McKinley Bryant, 31, who announced his marriage to her "somewhere in Kentucky" after the Derby. Protested Mr. Bryant later: "How could I marry her when I'm still married to Mickey Flynn?" Sighed Miss Judge: "It's all so ridiculous." Divorced. Kent Cooper, general manager of Associated Press; by Marian Rothwell Cooper; after 20 years of marriage; in Miami, Fla.
Died. Webb Miller, 48, Michigan-born war correspondent, European news manager of the United Press; during a blackout in southwest London (see p. 61).
Died. Alice Morrow, 68, schoolteacher sister of the late Senator Dwight W. Morrow, resident director (1928-37) of the American Woman's College in Istanbul.
Turkey; in Englewood, N. J.
Died. Emma Goldman, 70, famed anarchist; after long illness; in Toronto. Deported from the U. S. to Russia in 1919 with her lover and fellow radical, Alexander Berkman, she soon quit Russia, roamed the world, married a Welsh coal miner, briefly revisited the U. S. in 1934.
Died. George Lansbury, 81, pacifist, "best-loved man in Britain," longtime Labor M. P.; after long illness; in London.
Died. Harry Willson Watrous, 82, meticulous painter, noted for highly finished 16th-Century saints, microscopic in detail, onetime (1933) president of the National Academy of Design; in Manhattan. A practical joker, he terrified the Lake George colony in 1904 by a hippogriff--a cedar log fashioned into a sea serpent.
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