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Birthday. Joseph ("Soso") Dzugashvili, alias Josef Stalin, "Steel Man' Dictator of Soviet Russia, wielder of greater authority over a greater area than any man since Tamerlane the Great. Age: 50. Because of the proximity of his and Christ's birthdays, his parents destined him for the church. Expelled from seminary at the age of 17, in 1898 he adopted 100% communism as his philosophy, his religion. He has never deviated. On his birthday last week every newspaper in Moscow devoted its first four pages entirely to "Soso" Stalin.
Died. Hunt Wentworth, 34, Chicago socialite, Harvardman, Lampoon editor, voted the handsomest and funniest man in his class (1917), War veteran, grandnephew of twotime (1857-60) Mayor "Long John" Wentworth; at Chicago; by his own hand (pistol) in his mother's house. He was engaged to marry Miss Eileen Smith (TIME, Nov. 4), whose mother was Commissioner of Public Welfare. Reason advanced by his brother: despondency over idleness.
Died. Representative William Kirk Kaynor of Massachusetts, with four others; at Boiling Field, Va.; in an airplane accident (see p. 44).
Died. Governor Isaac Lee Patterson of Oregon, 70, oldtime state politician; at Salem, Ore.; of pneumonia.
Died. Judge Henry De Lamar Clayton, 72, longtime (1897-1914) Representative from Alabama, author of the famed Clayton Act (to release labor from the strictures of the anti-trust laws); at Montgomery, Ala.; of pernicious anemia (see p. 11).
* Professor Einstein is just three months older than Professor Michelson's son by his first wife, Truman Michelson, 50, professor of ethnology at George Washington University.