Milestones: Dec. 10, 1928
Born. To Clarence Hungerford Mackay of Manhattan; his first grandson, Irving Berlin Jr., the son of Songwriter Irving Berlin & Mrs. Berlin (Ellin Mackay); in Manhattan.
Engaged. John Coolidge, son of the President; and Florence Trumbull, daughter of Gov. John H. Trumbull of Connecticut.
Married. Arnold Horween, Harvard football coach; to Marion Eisendrath, daughter of the late William H. Eisendrath, Chicago leather tycoon; in Chicago.
Married. Nanette Guilford (nee Gut-man), 23, "baby star" of the Metropolitan Opera Company; to Max Rosen, 28, concert violinist; in Manhattan.
Married. Count Folke Bernadotte, nephew of King Gustaf of Sweden; to Estelle Romaine Manville, Manhattan debutante, descendant of Jeoffrey de Mag-navil, ally of William the Conqueror; in Pleasantville, N. Y.
Married. Mrs. Elizabeth Baker Ritchie, onetime wife of Gov. Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland; to Dr. Francis I. Proctor; Boston eye specialist; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. So circumspectly was Mrs. Ritchie's divorce obtained in 1916 that many Maryland voters are unaware that Gov. Ritchie has ever been married.
Married. Edna Best, 28, English actress, and Herbert Marshall, 38, English actor, co-stars of Frederick Lonsdale's The High Road, current Broadway comedy; in Jersey City, N. Y.
Married. Sebastian S. Kresge, 61, famed 5 & 10 cent store tycoon, lavish Anti-Salooner, of Highland Park, Mich.; to Mrs. Clara K. Swaine, 34, of Cresco, Pa., daughter of a late Bronx insurance examiner; in Kunkletown, Pa. In 1897 Mr. Kresge married Anna E. Harvey of Memphis; she divorced him in 1924, obtained a $10,000,000 settlement for herself, $5,000,000 for each of their five children. In 1924 Mr. Kresge married Mabel D. Mercer of Pittsburgh, daughter of Capt. George A. Mercer, onetime partner of Andrew Carnegie. Last February she divorced him, obtained a settlement of about $10,000,000. Mr. Kresge's fortune has been estimated as $265,000,000.
Sued for Divorce. Russell Sturgis Codman Jr., Boston real estate broker, famed international oarsman, graduate of Groton & Harvard; by Mrs. Elinor Medill Patterson Codman of Chicago, onetime Nun in The Miracle, daughter of famed Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson (see p. 48).
Remarried. Louis Untermeyer, Manhattan poet; to Jean Starr Untermeyer, Manhattan poetess. In 1926 Poet Untermeyer divorced Poetess Starr to marry Poetess Virginia Moore. Said Poet Untermeyer: "I remarried my first wife because I usually love her."
Elected. Peter Hurll, English representative of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; to be a director of the company, succeeding the late George Henry Jones (TIME, Dec. 3).
Died. Admiral Reinhold Scheer, 65, commander of the German Imperial High Seas Fleet at the Battle of Jutland, May 31, 1916; of heart disease; in Marktred-witz, Germany. Famed -British Admiral Earl Beatty, whose battle cruisers met Scheer at Jutland, wrote to the London Daily Express: "He was a great sailor and a bold and skillful tactician."
Died. William Bradford Merrill, 67, since 1917 general manager of the Hearst newspapers; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.
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