Monday, Sep. 18, 1939
Married. Anthony Drexel Duke, 21, grandnephew of tobacco-rich James B. ("Buck") Duke, founder of Duke University; and Alice Noel Rutgers, 19, one of whose forebears was land-rich Colonel Henry Rutgers, benefactor of Rutgers University; in Rumson, N. J.
Married. Lawrence Morgan Kelley, 24, onetime famed Yale footballer, now teacher-coach at Peddie School, Hightstown, N. J.; and Katharine Maria Duncan, 23, teacher-daughter at Major Charles M. Duncan's Freehold Military School; in Freehold, N. J.
Married. John Macrae, 72, longtime president of E. P. Dutton & Co. (books), famed for his white whiskers, pink shirts, and garrulous letters to the trade; and comely Opal Wheeler, fortyish, musicologist and schoolmistress; he for the second time, she for the first time; in Rosebank, Staten Island.
Died. Lawrence Gilman, 61, famed music pundit of the New York Herald Tribune, author, commentator, program annotator for the Philharmonic Society of New York; of a heart attack, in Sugar Hill, N. H.
Died. Robert Wadsworth Edgren, 65, sports writer, cartoonist, creator of Hearst's controversial Spanish-American War atrocity cartoons, "Sketches from Death"; later sports editor for the late legendary Joseph Pulitzer's old New York World; of a heart attack; in Del Monte, Calif.
Died. Arthur Rackham, 72, foremost English illustrator, elfin and old-worldish as his quaint, delicately grotesque children, gnomes, hobgobliny trees beloved by readers of fairy tales throughout the English-speaking world; in Limpsfield, Surrey, England.
Died. Dr. Edward Alexander Wester-marck, 76, Finnish sociologist, a bachelor who was a world-famed authority on marriage ; in Lapinlahti, Finland. No medieval moralist, Dr. Westermarck championed the single standard for marriage, tilted against companionate marriage, polygamy, adultery, homosexuality. His concluding sentence in the first editions of The History of Human Marriage won him honorary vice-presidencies in two feminist societies: "The history of human marriage is the history of a relationship in which women have been gradually triumphing over the passion, prejudices, and selfish interests of men." In 1921, concluding that Woman had been outpaced by Civilization, he deleted the sentence. One moonlight night on the Isle of Capri, a U. S. woman artist invited him to dinner, proposed marriage. By producing pictures of two nephews, claiming them as his sons, Bachelor Westermarck escaped.
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