Milestones, May 30, 1932

Married. John Garland Pollard Jr., son of the Governor of Virginia; and Miss Margaret Fullarton Clarkson of Charlotte, N. C.; quietly in Charlotte.

Married. Elbridge Gerry II, polo player, grandson of the late philanthropist and founder of the S. P. C. C., and of the late, great Edward Henry Harriman; and Marjorie Y. Kane, Manhattan socialite; by Rt. Rev. Frank Du Moulin, onetime Bishop Coadjutor of Ohio* in Locust Valley, Long Island.

Marriage Revealed. Elsbeth (“Libby”) Holman, 26, “torch-song” singer (Little Shows, Three’s a Crowd); and Smith Reynolds, 20, tobacco scion of Winston-Salem, N. C. His first marriage was in 1929 to Anne L. Cannon of Concord, N. C. at 2 a. m. in York, S. C. with the bride’s father (towel tycoon) and a policeman attending. When he becomes 28, Bridegroom Reynolds will receive the $20,000,000 estate of his father, the late Richard Joshua Reynolds.

Sued for Divorce. George Randolph (“Fanny”) Hearst, publisher of his father’s San Francisco Examiner; by Blanche Wilbur Hearst (no kin of Curtis Dwight & Ray Lyman Wilbur); in Los Angeles. Charge: desertion.

Died. Mrs. Jack Maddux, 40, pioneer woman flyer, with her husband founder of Maddux Air Lines (now Transcontinental & Western); of heart disease following a minor operation; in Los Angeles. Last fortnight she visited her good friends, Col. & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh.

Died. Lewis B. Tebbetts, 43, St. Louis insurance agent, “The Man Who Sued Coolidge” for $100,000 (and collected $2,500 from New York Life Insurance Co. of which Calvin Coolidge is a director), alleging defamation of character in a radio insurance talk (TIME, April 11); suddenly, of heart disease; in Brookline, Mass.

Died. Bozeman Bulger, 54, sports writer (baseball), playwright, raconteur; of heart disease; in Lynbrook, Long Island. Good friend to all baseballers, he wrote for the old New York World from 1905 until it was sold last year. Famed for his stories of the fabulous batsman, “Swat Milligan of the Poison Oak team,” Writer Bulger had since been with Saturday Evening Post. During the War he led troops in the Argonne, became chief press representative on General Pershing’s staff. At a dance in Coblenz after the Armistice, gay Writer Bulger amazed British officers by cutting in on Edward of Wales.

Died. Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, 58, Commandant of the U. S. Coast Guard Service; of pneumonia; in Washington. Directing from his bed the Coast Guard’s search for the Lindbergh baby, Admiral Billard overtaxed his strength, died before being informed of the Curtis hoax.

Died. Admiral William Shepherd Benson, 76, U. S. N. retired, Wartime Chief of Naval Operations (highest Navy post), onetime chairman of U. S. Shipping Board; onetime president of the National Council of Catholic Men; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington. First to hold his high position, Admiral Benson ably coordinated U. S. naval efforts with the Allied Fleets, was naval adviser at the Peace Conference.

Died. Willis Joshua Bailey, 77, former governor of Kansas City’s Federal Reserve Bank, onetime Congressman-at-large (1899-01) and Governor of Kansas (1903-05); of heart trouble; in Kansas City, Mo. Before his marriage, he was publicized as “Kansas’ most eligible bachelor,” received 2,000 proposals by mail.

Died. James Lyle Mackay, first Earl of Inchcape, 79, British banking & shipping tycoon, board chairman of famed Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., vice president of Suez Canal Co.; after a general breakdown; aboard his yacht Rover, off Monte Carlo. His family withheld the news of his death until the London Stock Exchange closed. A poor Scottish boy, he rose to wealth & power in Indian trading firms. Branching out into Far Eastern shipping, Lord Inchcape became an authority on Oriental trade, negotiated Britain’s basic commercial treaty with China in 1902. His daughter Elsie was lost in 1928 when she attempted to fly the Atlantic with Capt. W. G. R. Hinchliffe.

Died. Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory, 80, Irish dramatist, patroness of Dublin’s famed Abbey Theatre, widow of the late Governor Sir William Gregory of Ceylon; in Belfast. An able playwright (Cuchulain of Muirthemne, Gods & Fighting Men, Saints & Wonders), she sponsored the “Celtic Renaissance” with George Moore, William Butler Yeats, Edward Martyn. Creating an Irish National Theatre out of Abbey Theatre, she aroused a storm of protest with her productions. So unpopular was John Millington Synge’s Playboy of the Western World that Lady Gregory’s young nephews had to fetch burly athletes from Trinity College to quell the rioting.

*Dr. Du Moulin, originally chosen to marry the couple, withdrew to hurry to Providence, R. I. to attend the sudden marriage of his son. Crossing Long Island Sound, the ferryboat broke flown, floated around for hours. The ferry boat finally floated back to Long Island, Dr. Du Moulin rushed to Locust Valley, performed the ceremony.