Milestones: Aug. 1, 1927

Divorced. Winifred Sackville Stoner de Bruché Hyman, 24, one-time child prodigy; from Louis Hyman; in Manhattan. It was recently reported she was to marry onetime (1920-21) U. S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, 58, now suing for divorce in Paris (TIME, May 23).

Died. U. S. Congressman Maurice E. Crumpacker, 40, Republican, of the Third Oregon District. He jumped or fell into San Francisco Bay and was drowned. Mr. Crumpacker had spent the previous night at the San Francisco Emergency Hospital, after having been found sitting on a curbstone and stating that he had...

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