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Elected. Samuel Insull, Chicago public utilitarian; to be board chairman of Commonwealth Edison Co., Peoples Gas Light and Coke Co. Onetime president of both companies, he was succeeded in the former by Edward J. Doyle, in the latter by George F. Mitchell.
Elected. Dr. Harry Woodburn Chase, 46, president of the University of North Carolina; to be president of the University of Illinois; at Urbana, 111. (see p. 37).
Elected. Hunter S. Marston, 44; to be president of Bancamerica-BIair Corp.; to succeed Elisha Walker, lately elected board chairman of Transamerica Corp.
Died. Mabel Normand Cody. 33, onetime cinemactress; at Monrovia, Calif.; of tuberculosis.
Died. Eugene Francis Clark, 50. German professor, secretary of Dartmouth College; at Hanover, N. H.; after a long illness.
Died. Mrs. Anita Kellogg Thompson, 70, daughter of Abraham Lincoln's sister-in-law, Margaret Todd; at Pine Bluff, Ark.
Died. Dr. William Henry Nichols, 78, Manhattan chemist, copperman, banker, board chairman of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., world's greatest chemical enterprise; at Honolulu; of heart disease.
Died. Emily Todd Helm, 93, relict of General Ben Hardin Helm, half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln, supposedly the last lingering close associate of Abraham Lincoln; near Lexington, Ky. When President Lincoln offered him a union commission at the beginning of the Civil War, General Helm declined, joined a Confederate brigade organized by a friend of his father, was killed at Chickamauga.