Monday, Mar. 22, 1937
Born, To Francis Burton Harrison, 63, onetime (1913-21) Governor General of the Philippines who became a naturalized Filipino last November; and Margaret Wrentmore Harrison; a daughter; in Manila.
Married. William Curley, editor of William Randolph Hearst's New York Evening Journal; and one Mary Grace; at "La Cuesta Encantada" on the Hearst Ranch at San Simeon, Calif. Bridesmaids were Mrs. Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, Doris Duke Cromwell, Marion Davies.
Marriage Revealed. Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, 31, U. S. N., divorced husband of Thalia Fortescue Massie of Hawaii's celebrated rape-&-murder case (TIME, Jan. 18, 1932 et seq.); and Florence K. Storms, 29, Seattle stenographer, daughter of Chewelah, Wash.'s postmaster; fortnight ago; in Seattle.
Sentenced. Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan'') Townsend, 69, to 30 days in jail, $100 fine; for contempt of the U. S. House (TIME, June 8); in Washington's Federal District Court; in Washington. Appealing the sentence, the old pensioner cried: "My crackpot idea . . . will save America from economic serfdom."
Left. By Huey Pierce Long, who died intestate; a net estate of $116,971, that could be found; in New Orleans, under an accounting filed by his brother, Louisiana's Lieutenant Governor Earl K. Long.
Died. Judge Walter Peter ("Wallie") Steffen, 50, of Cook County, Ill.'s Superior Court, famed University of Chicago All-America quarterback (1907-08) and Carnegie Tech Coach (1914-32); after long illness; in Chicago.
Died. William H. Alfring, 52, president since 1932 of Aeolian American Corp., one of the world's largest piano-makers; by diving under a New York Central Train; at Hartsdale, N. Y. Month ago he suffered a nervous breakdown.
Died. Paul Elmer More, 72, famed Princeton Humanist (Shelburne Essays, The Greek Tradition, Christ the Word), onetime (1909-14) editor of The Nation; after long illness; in Princeton, N. J.
Died. Elihu Thomson, 83, co-founder of General Electric Co., onetime (1920-22) acting president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; after two months' illness; in Swampscott, Mass. A precocious British immigrant who built an electric friction generator out of a wine bottle before he entered high school, Elihu Thomson invented electric welding, the standard three-phase alternating current generator, the centrifugal cream separator, the common watt meter, the street arc lamp; built the first electric locomotive for Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
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