Milestones, Dec. 2, 1935

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Married. Henry R. Luce, 37, editor and publisher of TIME, the March of TIME, FORTUNE, the ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, LETTERS; and Clare Boothe Brokaw, 32, playwright (see p. 68), one-time managing editor of Vanity Fair; at Old Greenwich, Conn.

Died. Zehra Meheemen, 20, adopted daughter of Turkey's President Kamal Ataturk; of a fractured skull received when she jumped or fell from the Calais-Paris Express; near Amiens, France (see P-21).

Died. Frances Winlock, 21, daughter of Egyptologist Herbert Winlock whom she accompanied into the tomb of TutankhAmen; of tuberculosis, after two years' illness; in Saranac Lake, N. Y.

Died. Bernard Seymour Deutsch, 51, president of New York's Board of Aldermen and onetime (1929-March 1935) president of the American Jewish Congress; suddenly, of coronary thrombosis; at his home in The Bronx. Mr. Deutsch became active in politics in 1932, was elected to office on the Fusion ticket the following year. By his death Tammany Hall regains control of the Board of Estimate.

Died. Dr. Albert Bledsoe Dinwiddie, 64. president since 1918 of Tulane University, which he built up from a small sectional institution into one of the major universities of the South; of heart disease, after two years' illness: in New Orleans.

Died. Louis Eckstein, 70, capitalist, onetime magazine publisher (Red Book, Blue Book, Green Book), founder and president of Chicago's Ravinia Opera Company; of bronchial pneumonia; in Chicago. Obliged by heavy losses to discontinue Ravinia's summer opera in 1931, Mr. Eckstein estimated he had spent $1,000,000 in its support.

Died. John Rushworth ("Hell Fire Jack") Jellicoe,first Earl Jellicoe, Viscount Brocas of Southampton, Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, 75, Britain's Wartime Commander of the Grand Fleet, "Hero of Jutland"; of a chill caught at Armistice Day ceremonies; in London. Admiral-of-the-Fleet Jellicoe was told in 1914 that he alone had the power to "lose the War in an afternoon." The afternoon when the overpowering British Grand Fleet met the crack German High Seas Fleet in the Skagerrak entrance to the Baltic Sea proved to be May 31, 1916. To 19 years of accusations that he bungled the Battle of Jutland, the War's only fleet engagement, Jellicoe's reply has been that he did not lose the War, even though he failed to destroy the German Fleet because of poor communications and his unpreparedness for a night battle.

Died. Joseph Bulova, 84, president of Bulova Watch Co.; in Manhattan.