Milestones, Feb. 5, 1940

Birthdays. Brigadier General William Henry Bisbee, U. S. A., retired, 100, veteran of the Civil War, Sioux Indian campaigns, keen student of World War II, who received from the War Department the Order of the Purple Heart and from President Roosevelt a letter of felicitation; William Libbey Sexton, oldest living alumnus of Princeton University, 95; Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, onetime Kaiser of Germany. 81; James Clark McReynolds, senior Supreme Court Justice, 78; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the U. S., 58.

Married. Kay Stammers, best and most beautiful of British women tennists; and Second Lieutenant Michael Menzies of His Majesty’s Welsh Guards; in London.

Married. Woolworth Donahue, 27. “most eligible U. S. bachelor,” grandson of 5-&-10¢-store Founder Frank Winfield Woolworth; and Gretchen Wilson Hearst 26, divorced wife of Son John Randolph Hearst; in Palm Beach, Fla.

Divorced. Actor Laurence Olivier (Wuthering Heights, No Time for Comedy) ; by Actress Jill Esmond, who named Vivien Leigh (Gone With the Wind) as co-respondent (three weeks earlier Herbert Leigh Holman’s divorce petition named Olivier); in London.

Died. Sister Ignace Andree; in flames, after leading children to safety when a crashing warplane fired a schoolhouse; in Plappeville, Lorraine. She was posthumously honored by France with the Order of the Nation.

Died. Nedo Nadi, 45, Olympic fencing champion (Stockholm, 1912; Antwerp, 1920); in Rome, Italy.

Died. Edward Stephen Harkness, 66. famed but retiring charitarian, who spent his life giving away the fortunes he inherited from his father (Standard Oil), his mother, a brother; of intestinal influenza and complications; in Manhattan. Edward Harkness’ secret was the total of his gifts; the known sum exceeded $100,000,000. His beneficiaries included Yale (his alma mater) and Harvard, where his millions provided U. S. versions of the Oxford college system; Columbia (a library, medical funds); Phillips Exeter Academy and other preparatory schools; the Commonwealth Fund (upwards of $50,000,000 for rural hospitals, medical research, education, etc.); Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum; the Pilgrim Fund (to serve “the most vital needs” of Great Britain).

Died. Dr. William David Haggard, 67, noted Nashville, Tenn. surgeon, president of the American Medical Association (1925) and the American College of Surgeons (1933); of a heart attack; in Palm Beach, Fla.

Died. Dr. William Wallace Whitelock, 70, newspaperman, author, educator, Spanish-American war hero (he headed a party that rescued Admiral Cervera from the wrecked Spanish flagship Maria Tere a); after a brief illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Mrs. Blanche Douglass Leathers, 79, first woman master of a Mississippi River packet, daughter-in-law of Captain T. P. Leathers, commander of the Natchez in its historic 1870 race with the Robert E. Lee; of cerebral hemorrhage; in New Orleans.

Died. Captain Richard Peters, 92, oldest soldier in the Allied armies in World War I (he enlisted as a private in the A. E. F. at 70) ; after a fall while dancing; in Manhattan.

Died. Mrs. Phebe Clark, 103, first cousin of Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the U. S.; of pneumonia; in Essex Fells, N. J.