Monday, Apr. 04, 1938
Married. Walter Lippmann, famed newspaper columnist, divorced last Deccember from Faye Albertson Lippmann; to Mrs. Helen Byrne Armstrong, former wife of Author Hamilton Fish Armstrong; in Manhattan.
Married. David Whitmire Hearst, 22. youngest (with his twin Randolph) son of Publisher William Randolph Hearst; to Hope Chandler, 17, former Manhattan show girl, who last year was chosen the "prettiest girl in Paradise" (Manhattan night club); in Manhattan.
Died. Baroness Eva Dickson von Blixen-Finecke, 30, British sportswoman and air enthusiast; in an automobile accident; near Baghdad, Iraq. The young Baroness, second wife of Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, hunted lions in Africa, drove racing cars in Europe, in 1935 went to Ethiopia to ''watch the war."
Died. Austin Parker, 46, screen writer (Week End); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. Five years ago Cinemauthor Parker wrote Cinemactress Miriam Hopkins, then his wife, asking that there be "no sadness, no mourning and no ceremony" after his death. Now the wife of Director Anatole Litvak, Cinemactress Hopkins last week gathered with other Parker friends in a Hollywood funeral parlor, "just to sit around," she said, "and talk about what a swell guy he was."
Died. The Maharaja of Patiala, 46, ruler of the largest Phulkian state, the premier power in India's Punjab, and one of the richest Indian princes; of kidney disease; in Lahore, India. A loyal supporter of Great Britain, he ruled some 1,600,000 people, had an annual income of about $2,500,000, wore a 21-strand pearl necklace valued at $5,000,000, enjoyed possession of the world's finest collection of emeralds, had a fleet of 21 Rolls-Royces, one senior and two junior maharanis.
Died. Andrew Michalacopoulos, 63, onetime (1924) Premier of Greece; of heart disease. A leader in Greece's Conservative Democratic Party and a Cabinet member for more than a decade all told, he last month was exiled to one of Greece's tiny islands in the Aegean Sea for "trying to undermine the country's finances, foreign policy and public order by secretly circulating libelous leaflets."
Died. Dr. Paul Martin Pearson. 66, first U. S. civil Governor of the Virgin Islands (1931-35) and father of Drew Pearson, Washington newspaper columnist; of cerebral hemorrhage; in San Francisco. Calif. At his request his ashes will be scattered in the Caribbean near the Virgin Islands.
Died. Dr. Louis William Stern, 67, German emigre, onetime (1916-33) director of the Psychological Institute at Hamburg University, since 1934 professor of psychology at Duke University; of a heart attack; in Durham. N. C. One of the world's leading psychologists, Dr. Stern was credited with having originated the idea of I. Q. (intelligence quotient) tests.
Died. Walter Scott, 70, Canadian newspaper publisher and first Premier of Saskatchewan (1905-16); of heart disease; in Guelph, Ont.
Died. Edward Mandell House, 79, confidential adviser to Woodrow Wilson; of old age; in Manhattan. "Colonel" House was author of an anonymous novel, Philip Deu: Administrator, published in 1912 about the time he made Wilson's acquaintance. It proposed many governmental reforms, which helped cement their friendship. Not reform but international diplomacy was their most binding tie. From 1914 on House commuted to Europe as Wilson's private emissary to statesmen and kings, trying first to prevent the World War, then to bring peace. In 1916 he was consulting strategist of the he-kept-us-out-of-war campaign in which Wilson was reelected, again a diplomat during the War and early League of Nations days, was estranged from Wilson in the latter days of the Administration. More influential than any brain truster of Franklin Roosevelt, Colonel House never held an elective office.
Died. Harry Rene Lee, 92, onetime (1935-36) commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans and a chief sponsor in the South of the Blue and Gray reunion at Gettysburg. Pa.; of old age; in Nashville, Tenn. "General" Lee joined the Confederate Army at Tupelo in 1862 when he was 16, later enlisted in the British Navy, serving on the same ship with the late King George V.
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