Monday, Sep. 13, 1937
Engaged. Thomas Quakers, bodyguard to President Roosevelt; to Arlene Eade, of Lynn, Mass.; in Lynn.
Engaged. Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell Baker Godde, 40, thrice-married auto heiress; to Jack Doyle, pugilist-singer; in Reno, where both are awaiting divorces. Mrs. Godde is still married to Exporter Timothy Godde, Pugilist Doyle to Actress Judith Allen. Pugilist Doyle announced he would give up fighting. Said he: "It's too brutal. I don't like it."
Married. Eleanor May Eccles, 21, daughter of Federal Reserve Board Governor Marriner Stoddard Eccles; to Harold J. Steele, of Washington, D. C.; in Ogden, Utah.
Married. Cinemactress Miriam Hopkins, 34; to Director Anatole Litvak, 35; after an airplane elopement from Hollywood to Yuma, Ariz.
Married. Actress Tallulah Bankhead, 35, daughter of Speaker William Brockman Bankhead of the House of Representatives; to Actor John Emery, 32; in Jasper, Ala.
Married. Dorothy Round, crack British tennist, All-England tennis champion; to Dr. Douglas Little, physician; in Dudley, England. Mrs. Little announced her retirement from tournament tennis.
Birthday. Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, 57; at Het Loo, her country seat, near Apeldoorn.
Elected. Carter Glass Jr., 44, youngest son of the Senator from Virginia; to the presidency of the American Philatelic Society; in Detroit.
Died. Brig.-General Frank Percy Crozier, 58, onetime British Army officer, author of The Men I Killed, A Brass Hat in No Man's Land, etc.; at Walton-on-Thames, England. General Crozier's experiences in the wars, from which he drew his books, made him a famed, bitter pacifist. Last week as he lay dying, Army officials were soundly berating him because in his latest book, The Men I Killed, he said that in the World War British officers shot their own and Portuguese soldiers to make them fight.
Died. Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin, 74, founder of the modern Olympic Games; after an apoplectic stroke; in Geneva, Switzerland.
Died. Dr. George Henry Simmons, 85, editor and general manager emeritus of the Journal of the American Medical Association; after an abdominal operation; in Chicago.
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