Milestones, Jul. 12, 1937

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Born. To Prince Alessandro Torlonia and Princess Beatriz Torlonia, elder daughter of onetime King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain; a second child, a son; in Rome. Prince Alessandro's mother was Elsie Moore, of New York. At the bedside of the infant, Alfonso and Victoria Eugenia separated since they fled Spain in 1931, met for the first time in six years, had a private lunch together.

Married. Kermit Roosevelt Jr., 21, grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt; classmate at Groton and Harvard, from which he graduated last fortnight, of his distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.; to Mary Lowe Gaddis of Milton, Mass.; in Farmington, Conn.

Married. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 22, and Ethel du Pont, 21; at Christiana Hundred, Del. (see p. 10).

Married. Don Alfonso, Count of Covadonga, 30, invalid onetime heir to the throne of Spain; to Marta Rocafort, handsome daughter of a Havana dentist; in Havana.

Married. Commander Earl Winfield Spencer, U. S. N., first husband of the Duchess of Windsor; to a Mrs. Norma Reese Johnson; in Los Angeles.

Pardoned. Col. Luke Lea, onetime (1911-17) U. S. Senator, longtime potent Tennessee publisher and politician, who was paroled last year after serving 23 months of a six-to-ten year sentence for his part in the $17,000,000 failure of the Asheville Central Bank & Trust Co. (TIME, April 13, 1936); by North Carolina's new Governor Clyde R. Hoey.

Died. Colonel Jacob Schick, 59, inventor of the Schick Dry Shaver; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. It was his theory that by losing awareness of time he could live to be 120. Born in Ottumwa, Iowa, he went to work in a copper mine in his early childhood, became an Alaska prospector at 20; enlisted in the U.S. Army for the War with Spain; in the World War supervised transport of troops through England. An inveterate inventor of boats, machines, engineering methods, he speeded up gas mask production by a device enabling one girl to fill 20 masks a minute instead of one mask every 35 min. He got the idea for his dry shaver while recovering from dysentery in Alaska, used profits from his patents on pencil sharpeners to start making it in 1931. Living in Montreal for his health, he had been a Canadian citizen since 1935. Last fortnight he was named by the Joint Congressional Committee on Tax Evasion & Avoidance for having four personal holding companies in the Bahamas.

Died. Mrs. Florence Pullman Lowden, 69, wife of Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois, daughter of Sleeping Car Manufacturer George M. Pullman; in Oregon, Ill.

Died. Morrill Goddard, 70, editor of Hearst's American Weekly, author of What Interests People and Why; of heart failure; in Naskeag, Me. (see p. 26). He started the Sunday supplement for Pulitzer's old New York World, was hired with his entire staff by Hearst, lately earned $156,000 yearly salary. Native of Maine, he was a master mariner.

Died. Frederic A. Juilliard, 70, director of the Juilliard Musical Foundation since the death of his uncle, Augustus D. Juilliard, its founder; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Tuxedo Park, N. Y.

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