Married, Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), 63, oldtime prizefighter, lately a Ford Motor Company policeman, for the ninth time, to Mrs. Sue Cobb Cowley, 44; in Rushville, Ind.

Divorced. Prof. William Ellery Leonard, 61, poet, English Professor at the University of Wisconsin, famed for the "phobic prison" which keeps him within a few blocks of the University; by Grace Golden Leonard, 29; in Madison. Wis. Soon after they were married in June 1935, Prof. Leonard announced that his wife had taken him by the hand and led him out of the six-block area in which he had been held by agoraphobia. The cure was only temporary. A year ago Mrs. Leonard obtained a divorce, later had the decree set aside. The grounds were the same as the present ones: that Dr. Leonard told their friends and tried to persuade her she was insane.

Elected. Representative Christopher D. Sullivan, 67, Tammany district leader of the old school, for the past 21 years a desultory, disinterested member of Congress: to succeed the late James J. Dooling as leader of Tammany Hall. By his election a Congressman for the first time became boss of Tammany. Expected was a shake-up of Democratic plans to recover control of New York City from Fusion Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia who is up for re-election next fall (TIME, Aug. 2). Left, By Automan Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudson Motors), onetime (1932-33) U. S. Secretary of Commerce; an estate of $7,311,616. After the deduction of minor bequests, one-third goes to his widow, Mrs. Inez Tiedeman Chapin, the other two-thirds to his six children--three hoys and three girls.

Died. Marjorie de Loosey Oelrichs Duchin, 29, socialite wife of Bandleader Edward Frank ("Eddy") Duchin; six days after giving birth to a son, their first child; in Manhattan.

Died. Alfredo Codona, 43, onetime world's No. 1 trapeze artist, onetime husband of famed trapezist Lillian Leitzel, founder of the famed "Flying Codonas"; by his own hand, after shooting and fatally wounding his third wife, Trapezist Leitzel's onetime protegee, Vera Bruce; in a Long Branch, Calif, lawyer's office. Two years after Lillian Leitzel's death from a fall in Copenhagen in 1931, Trapezist Codona was severely injured by a fall during a performance of his famed triple somersault in Philadelphia. Despondent over his inability to perform professionally, he last week went to confer with Mrs. Codona, from whom he had been separated for a year, about a divorce settlement. When the conference ended, Trapezist Codona asked to be left alone with his wife, drew a gun, shot her four times, put a fifth bullet through his own head.

Died. John Luther ("Jack") Maddux, 49, president of Transcontinental Air Transport Inc.; of a heart attack; in New York.

Died. Harold Francis Davidson, 65, "The Lustful Rector of Stiffkey" (pronounced Stewkey); after being attacked by a lion; at Thompson's Amusement Park, Skegness, Lincolnshire, England. Since his unfrocking for unministerial relations with prostitutes, Mr. Davidson had kept in the limelight by appearing at a suburban movie house, exhibiting himself in a barrel, being ejected from a nudist camp. His last exploit, lion-taming, ended when during the course of his act he accidentally trod on the toe of a lioness whose mate leaped at him, mortally mauled him before his 16-year-old girl assistant could come to the rescue.

Died. Adolf Edward Wuppermann, 65, president of the Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. (Angostura Bitters), brother of Cinemactors Ralph and Frank Morgan; of heart disease; in Greenwich, Conn. Angostura Bitters is brewed according to a secret formula known only to three descendants of Inventor Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a retired Army surgeon who lived in Venezuela. Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. was started in 1879 by Adolf Wuppermann's father to take over the U. S. Angostura agency. When George Wuppermann died in 1915, the presidency passed to his able widow who ran the company until she died last September.

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