Monday, Dec. 13, 1937
Born. To Max Baer, onetime (1934-35) world's heavyweight boxing champion and Mary Ellen Sullivan Baer; their first child, a son; in Oakland, Calif.
Adoption Announced, By Mrs. Muriel McCormick Hubbard, granddaughter of the late John D. Rockefeller, oilman, daughter of Harold Fowler McCormick, farm machinery manufacturer, widow of the late Major Elisha D. Hubbard, gentleman farmer; of a girl, 4, who will presumably one day share the double-barreled fortune of her foster forebears.
Married. Manuel Alonso, tennist, long-time Spanish Davis Cup player, to Mrs. Ginetta Traini Huck; in Manhattan.
Married. Jacques Achille Louis Raffray, insurance broker, to Mrs. Constance Edna de Bower; in Manhattan's City Court; Raffray's former wife last month married Captain Ernest Aldrich Simpson, whose former wife six months ago married the Duke of Windsor.
Result: The six people now bearing the names Raffray, Simpson and Windsor have married and intermarried 13 times and only one of them--the Duke of Windsor--has not been divorced.
Divorced. Mrs. Margot Einstein Marianoff of Princeton, N. J., daughter of Scientist Professor Albert Einstein, by a preliminary decree from Dmitri Marianoff, writer, on the grounds of desertion.
Divorced. Clifford Victor Herbert, son of the late Composer Victor Herbert; by Helen Meher Herbert; in Los Angeles.
Divorced. Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski, 55, since 1912 conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, now also conducting and acting for films (Big Broadcast of 1937, 100 Men and a Girl); by Evangeline Brewster Johnson Stokowski, daughter of the late Robert W. Johnson, surgical equipment manufacturer. Conductor Stokowski called rumors of a romance with Actress Greta Garbo "untrue and absurd."
Died. James O. McKinsey, 48, chairman of Marshall Field & Co.; of pneumonia; in Chicago. Educator (University of Chicago, 1926-35), business analyst, author of books on accounting and administration, Chairman McKinsey entered Marshall Field in October 1935, after the company had lost $12,000,000 in five years. He reorganized ruthlessly, reported net profit for 1935 of $199,000. In the first nine months of this year, net profit was $1,280,970.
Died. Lansing Parmelee Reed, 55, law partner of John W. Davis, Allen Wardwell and Frank L. Polk; of pneumonia; in his Manhattan apartment.
Died. Mrs. Mary Hamilton, 81, mother of Republican National Committee Chairman John D. M. Hamilton; of a stroke; in Santa Monica, Calif.
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