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Milestones: Aug. 9, 1926

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Engaged. Irene Curie, daughter of Mme. Curie; to Dr. Frederick Joliot, also a radium scientist. Romance began with experiments in the Curie laboratories.

Engaged. Mabel Morgan Satterlee, granddaughter, of J. Pierpont Morgan; to Francis Abbott Ingalls Jr., grandson of David H. Houghtaling, late tea merchant.

Engaged. Ludlow Griscom, grandson of a founder of the International Mercantile Marine Co.; to Edith Sloan, granddaughter of the late Samuel Sloan.

Married. Charles H. Swift, potent packer, to Claire Dux, famed Swiss soprano, opera star; in the University of Chicago Chapel.

Divorced. Sir Richard Robert Cruise, oculist to His Majesty George V; from Lady Margery Barbara Cruise. Sir Guy Daunt, retired admiral and onetime M. P. was named as corespondent.

Divorced. Paul du Bonnet, distiller, sportsman, scion of the du Bonnets whose aperitif advertisements plaster every other billboard in France; by the onetime Christine Coty, daughter of the internationally famed perfumer, in Paris. He, it is rumored, will soon marry the notorious Mrs. Nash, famed as “the best dressed woman in the world.”

Divorced. Sir Henry W. Thornton, onetime Pennsylvania football player, now president of the Canadian National Railways; by Lady Virginia Blair Thornton, now on an extended trip to the Fiji Islands.

After managing the Long Island Railroad, Sir Henry went to England to manage the Great Eastern, finally to Canada and Knighthood.

Died. William Stephenson, Canadian aviator, whose neck was broken when his plane crashed into a windmill’s arms; at Richmond Hill, Ontario.

Died. Commander Oscar Cosulich, mighty builder of the Italian merchant marine; in the Gulf of Porto Rosa at Trieste, while trying to save his six-year-old son from drowning. After the father went down the son grasped the cutter, was rescued.

Commander Cosulich, whose ancestors had been shippers on the Mediterranean for centuries, was close to Dictator Mussolini, brought Italy up to fourth place among the world’s shipbuilders. His own shipyards at Monfalcone, near Trieste, are the greatest in Europe. Recently he inaugurated the Trieste-Turin commercial airplane service; brought Henry Ford’s automobile assembling plant to Trieste in the face of local opposition which feared such competition.

Died. Kara Kemal, onetime member of the Young Turk Committee of Union and Progress, sentenced to death as ringleader of the recent plot to assassinate President Mustapha Kemal Pasha of Turkey (TIME, July 26, TURKEY) ; in Stamboul (Constantinople), after shooting himself when a group of policemen surrounded and sought to arrest him.

Died. Leopold Lojka 40, innkeeper, famed as the chauffeur who drove the automobile which carried Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Sarajevo to his assassination; at Brünn, Czechoslovakia.

Died. Israel Zangwill, 62, English Jew famed as the novelist who interpreted the London Ghetto (Children of the Ghetto); in a nursing home in Sussex, England; of a break down due to overwork. Attendant at several English elementary schools, he stated that he was virtually self-educated. His literary handicraft produced The Big Bow Mystery (written to prove that it is possible to contrive a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by a reader until the last chapter) ; Jinny the Carrier; The Melting Pot. He was once listed as the third most eminent Jew in the world, Einstein considered relatively the first, Weizmann, inventor of TNT and head of the Zionist movement, second.

Died. Louis John Rhead, 69, artist, illustrator, author of books on angling; at Amityville, L. I., of heart disease, following exhaustion brought on when he fought and hooked a 30-lb. turtle two weeks before.

Died. Mrs. A. Montgomery Ward, 70, widow of the mail order marketer; at her Chicago home, of heart disease, following heat prostration on a train going through the desert near Yuma, Ariz.

Mrs. Ward donated $8,000,000 for the building of a downtown (Chicago) campus for the professional schools of Northwestern University, in memory of her husband. She is survived by one child, Marjorie.

Died. George Inness, Jr., 72, at his summer home in Cragsmoor, N. Y., of acute indigestion. (See ARTS, p. 16.)

Died. Senator Albert Baird Cummins, 76, veteran Iowa political leader; at his home in Des Moines, Iowa, of heart disease. (See THE CONGRESS, p. 8.)

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