Monday, Aug. 28, 1939
Born. To John Coolidge, 33, traveling passenger agent for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, only living son of the late Calvin Coolidge and Florence Trumbull Coolidge, 34, daughter of Connecticut's onetime Governor John H. Trumbull: a daughter; in New Haven. Name: Lydia. Weight: 8 Ib. 6 oz. Their other child, Cynthia, is 5.
Married. Johnny Weissmuller, 34, longtime cinema Tarzan, No. 1 swimmer of the New York World's Fair Aquacade; and Beryl Laura Scott, 23, daughter of the owner of San Francisco's Turko-Persian Rug Cleaning Co.; he for the third time, she for the first; in Garfield, N. J.
Died. Marguerite Walter Neppach, 33, daughter of Austria's famed exiled Conductor Bruno Walter; by her husband's hand (shooting); in Zurich. Herr Neppach then killed himself.
Died. Clendenin J. Ryan, 56, son of Capitalist Thomas Fortune Ryan; by his own hand (gas); in Manhattan. Capable executor of his father's $135,000,000 estate, of which he and Brother. John Barry got ample shares and Brother Allan a pair of shirt studs, he was active in finance until the last despite diabetes which reduced his six-foot-two frame from 240 to 150 Ibs.
Died. Samuel Davis Wilson, 57, eight days after he resigned as Mayor of Philadelphia; of cerebral thrombosis and hypertension (high blood pressure); in Philadelphia. Hardworking, harddriving, hard-drinking, red-faced Sam Wilson had been an automobile manufacturer, Sunday blue-law spy, contractor, justice of the peace, crime investigator. Politically he was all things to all men. A violent Wilsonian Democrat (his oldest son-secretary is named Woodrow), in 1933 he was elected Philadelphia's Controller on a coalition ticket, next year supported Democrat George H. Earle for Governor of Pennsylvania, year after that was elected Mayor as a Republican, last year sought (and lost) the Democratic U. S. Senatorial nomination against Earle. As Mayor, Wilson was good, bad. Although he was twice indicted for malfeasance in office (one indictment remained last week), he saved Philadelphians $50,000,000 on the capitalization of their transit setup, beat down utility rates, cut the tax rate 5-c-, was credited with bringing the 1936 Democratic convention to Philadelphia. But since January 1 sick Sam Wilson had spent precisely ten minutes at City Hall, let the city go to pot. Fortnight ago, with his overdue airport only half-finished, sewers left broken and exposed, some suburbs unpoliced and city water too bad for finicky citizens to drink, Mayor Wilson signed the $112,000,000 budget seven and one-half months after it was due, tearfully handed in his resignation. It was, explained he shakily, to be only temporary.
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