Milestones, Oct. 14, 1935

Engaged, Lawson Little, 24, amateur golf champion of the U. S. and England (TIME, Sept 23); and Dorothy Hurd, 18, Chicagoan whom he met two years ago at the Broadmoor Golf Club, Colorado Springs.

Married, Evangeline Davey, only daughter of Ohio’s Tree Surgeon-Governor Martin Luther Davey; and Alexander Smith of Kent, Ohio; in the Governor’s mansion at Columbus.

Married, Sylvia Sidney, 25, cinemactress; and Bennett Cerf, 37, Manhattan publisher (Modern Library); in Phoenix, Ariz.

Married, Penelope Borden, daughter of the late Milkman Lewis Mercer Borden, sister of Chicago Dramacritic Gail Borden II, great-granddaughter of Gail Borden I, who invented condensed milk; and Summitt Edward Boone of Manhattan, in East Hampton, L. I.

Divorced, Floyd Bostwick Odium, president of Atlas Corp., $100,000,000 investment trust; by Mrs. Hortense McQuarrie Odium, president of Atlas Corp.’s swank Fifth Avenue department store, Bonwit Teller; in Minden, Nev. Grounds: extreme cruelty. Three days before her decree was granted in Nevada, Bonwit Teller gave a party for Mrs. Odium in Manhattan, to celebrate her first year as store-head.

Died, Henry de Jouvenel, 59, French Senator, statesman and diplomat, head of the French Congress for the Defense of Peace, onetime Minister of Public Instruction, onetime editor of Le Matin, divorced husband of pert Novelist Colette; of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered in the Champs Elysees, where his body was found; in Paris. He distinguished himself as Ambassador to Italy in 1933 by getting Benito Mussolini’s signature to the Italo-Anglo-Franco-German Four Power Pact, as High Commissioner in Syria by firmly squelching a revolt of the Druse tribesmen which had got his predecessor into serious difficulties. Eight years ago Henry de Jouvenel predicted that 1935 would find Europe on the brink of another war.

Died. Georg Jensen, 69, Danish silversmith, called by critics the “greatest craftsman in silver for the last 300 years”; in Copenhagen.

Died. Dr. Alberto Rinaldi, good friend and physician to Conductor Arturo Toscanini, whom he successfully treated for bursitis (“conductor’s arm”); apparently by being clubbed to death; in small Piazze, Italy. Worshipped and called “miracle man” by villagers, Dr. Rinaldi treated such ailments as arthritis by a secret method involving injections from mysterious phials. He visited patients at night clad in ghostly white vestments. The secret of his treatment he took to his grave. Upon Dr. Rinaldi’s unexplained death, Toscanini, who had annually obtained relief from him, hastened to Piazze for the funeral.

Died. Mrs. Harold Elstner Talbott, 71, first citizen of Dayton, Ohio, co-founder of the famed Westminster Choir and Choral School; of a heart attack; in Dayton. Rich Mrs. Talbott, long a Presbyterian Church choir singer, founded her group nine years ago with Dr. John Finley Williamson, financed it liberally, accompanied it on trips to 200 U. S. cities and, in 1929, a European tour. Busy with the Choir and other causes, Mrs. Talbott raised nine children, had 32 grandchildren for whom she purchased a 24-passenger bus.

Died. Lucius William Nieman, 77, editor-proprietor of the Milwaukee Journal; after long illness; in Milwaukee. Managing editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel before he was 21, he bought the Journal in 1882, put it on the streets as Wisconsin’s first 2¢ daily. He introduced the first linotype to Milwaukee, scooped his rivals by using carrier pigeons in covering local events (see p. 42). His paper won the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for its campaign against German propaganda. Once a bitter foe of big business, Publisher Nieman mellowed as his paper grew rich (1929 profits: $1.600.000). finally became an opponent of the La Follette brothers.

Died. Rt. Rev. Thomas Frank Gailor, 79, well-beloved Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee, onetime (1919-25) Presiding Bishop; chancellor of the University of the South (Sewanee); after long illness; in Sewanee. A courageous, quick-witted broad-churchman, he was one of Tennessee’s two outstanding citizens (the other: Cordell Hull). Rt. Rev. James Matthew Maxon, 60, hardworking, cigar-smoking Bishop Coadjutor, automatically succeeds.