Born. To Ernest Hemingway, 33, author (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms), and Mrs. Pauline Pfeiffer Hemingway, his second wife; a son; in Kansas City, Mo. Name: Gregory Hancock. Announcing that they were "stork-conscious," Author & Mrs. Hemingway returned from residence in Europe so that Gregory Hancock might be born in Kansas City, where Patrick, their first son (Author Hemingway's second), was born three years ago.
Born, To James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, retired fisticuffer; and Mrs. Polly Lauder Tunney; a son; in Manhattan. Weight: 7 Ibs. 7 oz. Predicted name:
J. J-Jr.
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. Married, Constance Bennett, cinemactress, daughter of Actor Richard Bennett; and Henri, Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, divorced husband of cinemactress Gloria Swanson; in Los Angeles.
Married, James J. Couzens, 83, father of Senator James Couzens of Michigan; and a Mrs. Anne Cason, 67, of Pomona, Calif, whom he met eight months ago; in Riverside, Calif.
Elected. General Jan Christian Smuts, to be rector of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, defeating Scottish-born banking & shipping Tycoon James Lyle Mackay, Earl of Inchcape, 466-286. The rectorship, honorary post which may be held in absentia, has been graced since 1919 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, the late Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell.
Honored, Eugene Meyer, Yale 1895, governor of the Federal Reserve Board; with the Montclair Yale Bowl, awarded annually to the Yaleman "who has made his 'Y' in life"; at the nth annual party of the Montclair (N. J.) Yale Club in "Nick Roberts' Old Yale Barn."* New award: the Montclair Faculty Plate, to English Professor William Lyon Phelps. 66. The Montclair Scholastic Cup of 1931 goes to Rufus S. Day Jr., 19, Yale senior. Phi Beta Kappa, grandson of the late U. S. Supreme Court Justice William R. Day, Secretary of State under President McKinley.
Left. By Richard Teller Crane Jr., president of Crane Co. (plumbing) who died three weeks ago (TIME. Nov., 16): an estate estimated at $50,000,000, of which more than $1,200,000 goes to 4,000 old Crane employes. Amounts depend upon length of service, from ten years upwards, and upon whether the employe retained all of the stock Mr. Crane gave away in 1925, 1927, 1930; employes who disposed of all their stock (quoted now at $17) get nothing. Residue of the estate forms a trust fund for Mrs. Florence Crane, the widow, and Cornelius and Florence Crane, children. If they die childless, one-half of the residue goes to Crane employes, one-half to eight Chicago hospitals and charities. Birthdays, Hon. Katherine Plunket of Ballymascanlan, "Grand Old Lady of Ireland" (in); Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes (64); Representative John Nance Garner (62); the Pennsylvania Limited (50); Archduke Otto of Habsburg (19)-Died, John Walker ("Johnny") Pope, 32, famed young Wall Street operator; of a lung infection following whooping cough; in Manhattan (see p. 39).
Died, Louis Loucheur, 59, French industrialist, member of the Chamber of Deputies, owner of Le Petit Journal (Parisian daily); of heart disease; in Paris. Son of a railway crossing-keeper, he became a successful engineer and contractor, was employed at 23 by the Chemin de Fer du Nord to enlarge its trackage. With Alexandre Girod as partner he built an electric power station at Wagenthal near industrious Lille. Engineer Loucheur headed the Society of Electric Power of Paris, electrified the French, Italian, Russian and Turkish railways, built power plants and a railway in the Alps. At the outbreak of the War he became general director, then Minister of Munitions. Thereafter, until his death, he held 14 ministries in various cabinets. Often called "the Stinnes of France," M. Loucheur helped draft the economic sections of the Treaty of Versailles, negotiated Reparations payments-in-kind at Wiesbaden with the late Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Reconstruction.
Died. Dr. Samuel ("Sam") White Small, So, editorial writer for the Atlanta Constitution, religious and political writer; after long ill health resulting from a fall which broke his hip when he was covering the Republican convention in Kansas City in 1928; in Atlanta, Ga.
Died. Professor Walter Francis Reid, 81, inventor of smokeless powder, onetime (1910) president of the Society of Chemical Industry, research chemist (linoleum, cement, silver on backs of mirrors); of "extreme debility;" in Kingston. Surrey, England. A recluse for the last two years, Professor Reid lived in a cold, decaying mansion on milk and well-water, saw no one, was found in a stupor, his hair straggling to his shoulders, his beard to his waist.
Died. Constance, Lady Battersea, 88, grande dame of the British House of Rothschild, daughter of Sir Anthony de Rothschild who stemmed from the original Frankfort family; in Overstrand, Norfolk, England. A philanthropist, temperance worker, Lady Battersea was a friend of Queen Victoria, Queen Alexandra, Gladstone, Disraeli, Palmerston.
* Last week Alumnus Roberts missed his first Yale-Harvard football game in 30 years (see p. 2,3).
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