Milestones, Aug. 11, 1941

Birthdays. Henry Ford, 78. He predicted that "the job of getting our subsistence will eventually take so little time that we will not pay much attention to it." Queen Elizabeth of England, 41. She spent the day quietly in the country.

Divorced. William Buehler Seabrook, 55, travel writer, student of cannibalism, voodoo and primitive sex customs (Jungle Ways, The Magic Island); by Marjorie Worthington Seabrook, 41, his onetime companion in African exploration; in Newburgh, N.Y. She was his second wife, he her second husband. Her first husband married Seabrook's first wife.

Died. William Rhodes Davis, 52, the oil world's "mystery man" of...

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