Monday, Jun. 28, 1926
Engaged. Elizabeth Frances du Pont, daughter of Philip F. du Pont (Fairmont, Pa., capitalist-industrialist) ; to one R. D. Morgan, Philadelphia Bell Telephone clerk.
The former Alicia du Pont, daughter of Alfred I. du Pont (potent Wilmington, Del. financier) is now engaged in divorcing herself from one Harold Glendenning, Rhodes scholar, son of a mail carrier (TIME, June 7). The former Margarette du Pont, daughter of Irenee du Pont (onetime President of E.. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.--explosives, industrial chemicals) is now married to one C. H. Greenwalt, Philadelphia chemist. (TIME, June 14.)
As everyone knows, numerous members of the rapidly prolific and fabulously wealthy du Pont clan dwell together in a residential park near Wilmington, Del. They are distinguished as a family by a lack of ostentation, a generous solicitude for their retainers' welfare, and an astute dominance in national business (for example, General Motors) and Delaware politics.
Married. Teresa Higginson, 25, hard-riding huntress; to Count Giangiulio Rucellai, 22, student at the University of Rome and resident of Florence, Italy; from the Higginson mansion in Lenox, Mass., where her mother and father have lived since her father George, scion of Boston Higginsons, retired from a lucrative promotion business in Chicago.
Married. Emmeline Grace, daughter of the president of the Bethlehem Steel Co. (Eugene G. Grace); to Alton Parker Hall, son of a Bridgeport clergyman, grandson of the late Alton Brooks Parker; in the chapel of Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. Six hundred guests were feted.
Died. Thomas F. Farrell, 60, in the wreck of the Cincinnati Limited (Pennsylvania Lines) at Blairsville, Pa.; while returning to his home in East Orange, N. J., from commencement at Notre Dame University where his son had just graduated. "It's no use, doctor, it's no use. I'm about through and you can't do me any good. Go help those other people--those women--help ..." were the last words of the dying man. He was vice president of the Pocahontis Fuel Co.
Married. Viscount Dillon, 83, Chairman of Trustees to the British National Portrait Gallery, onetime curator of the Tower of London Armories; to Mrs. Margaret Louisa Phillips, 60; at London, by Chaplain in Ordinary to George V, the Reverend F. A. S. F. Folkes, brother of the bride.
Died. Albert Merritt Billings, 32, Manhattan clubman, son of Financier-Sportsman Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings of New York and California, on his yacht Tropic in New York Harbor, attended by his wife Margaret ("Teen") Shaw Billings; of embolism (blood clot).
Died. Representative Lawrence J. Flaherty, 47, of California, onetime cement mason; at Washington, D. C., after an operation.
Died. Onetime Dowager Queen Olga of Greece, 76, long embittered by tragedies of her royal family; in exile at the Villa Anastasia, Rome. She was once famous as the "most queenly queen in Europe."
Died. Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, fourth Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 85, twice challenger for the famed America's (yachting) Cup (with Valkyrie II, 1893 and Valkyrie III, 1895, both designed by Watson; defeated respectively by Vigilant and Defender, both designed by Herreshoff) ; at London.
His founding of "Estes Park" (Col.) in 1875 caused him to be ridiculed in London as the "Yanko-maniac." As a youth he twice served the London Daily Telegraph as war correspondent (Anglo-Abyssinian and Franco-Prussian wars), shot big game with "Buffalo Bill" and many another, soldiered, yachted, steeplechased. Facially he resembled Wilhelm II.
Died. Louis Svecenski, after long illness; in New York. He was famed as a violinist; was classmate of Fritz Kreisler and Franz Kneisel; played Brahms' compositions under the master's personal direction.
Died. Pongo, ship's bitch of the S. S. City of Oran; buried with full marine honors (the British Union Jack wrapped about her carcass) off Australia. In seven years at sea she had travelled "a million miles," visited nearly every country, known Limehouse ratruns, Manhattan piers, street fights in her native (presumably) Calcutta. She worked her passages carrying squigees and swab sticks, guarding the gangway, doing amusing tricks.