Milestones, Feb. 5, 1940

Birthdays. Brigadier General William Henry Bisbee, U. S. A., retired, 100, veteran of the Civil War, Sioux Indian campaigns, keen student of World War II, who received from the War Department the Order of the Purple Heart and from President Roosevelt a letter of felicitation; William Libbey Sexton, oldest living alumnus of Princeton University, 95; Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, onetime Kaiser of Germany. 81; James Clark McReynolds, senior Supreme Court Justice, 78; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the U. S., 58.

Married. Kay Stammers, best and most beautiful of British women tennists; and Second Lieutenant Michael Menzies of His Majesty's Welsh Guards; in...

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