Milestones, Jan. 25, 1937

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Married. Caroline Ashton Pyle, niece of the late famed boys' Book Illustrator Howard Pyle; and Nathaniel Convers Wyeth, son of famed children's Book Illustrator Newell Convers Wyeth; in New Castle, Del.

Married. Cinemactress Ann Harding Bannister, 34; and Werner Janssen, 37, Manhattan composer and symphony conductor, son of Restaurateur August Janssen ("Wants To See You") ; in London.

Married. Howard Dietz, 40, advertising & publicity director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, librettist (Three's a Crowd, Flying Colors); and Mrs. Tanis Guinness Montagu, 28, heiress to an Irish brewing fortune ("Guinness Is Good For You"), who two months ago jilted the Earl of Carnarvon; at Juarez, Mexico. Both were previously divorced.

Resigned. Major General John Archer Lejeune, 70, U. S. M. C. retired, onetime (1920-29) commander of the Marine Corps; after eight years as superintendent of Virginia Military Institute; in Lexington, Va.

Died. Kenneth G. Ormiston, 41, Los Angeles radio operator who figured in Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson's notorious 1926 "kidnapping"; after an appendectomy; in Los Angeles. Evangelist McPherson's story was that she had been snatched from a beach near Los Angeles, held captive in Mexico six weeks. The State spent $150,000 investigating the story, found five witnesses who testified they had seen her living at Carmel with Radioman Ormiston during the six weeks.

Died. Martin Johnson, 52, famed African explorer; of injuries received in a Western Air Express crash; in Los Angeles.

Died. Robert David Carey, 58, Wyoming's ranching First Citizen, Republican Governor (1919-23) & Senator (1930-37), son of its late pioneer Senator Joseph Maull Carey; of heart disease; in Cheyenne.

Died. Rev. Dr. Clarence Augustus Barbour, 69, since 1929 president of Brown University; after long illness, fortnight before his retirement and the inauguration of Henry Merritt Wriston (TIME, Oct. 19) as his successor; in Providence, R. I.

Died. John Benedict Fehr, 78, custodian of the Latter-Day Saints Tabernacle; in Salt Lake City. For 34 years he proudly demonstrated the Tabernacle's famed acoustics to 30,000,000 visitors by dropping a pin over a balcony railing, whispering scriptural lines until the pin resounded on the floor below.