Monday, Jun. 08, 1942
Married. William Buehler Seabrook, 56, travel writer, student of cannibalism, voodoo, primitive sex customs (Jungle Ways, The Magic Island); and Constance Kuhr, 31, newspaperwoman; he for the third time, she for the first; in Sharon, Conn.
Sued for Divorce. By Faith Baldwin, 48, romancer for the women's magazines, writer of 40-odd novels (including Alimony, Love's a Puzzle, Men Are Such Fools): Hugh H. Cuthrell, Brooklyn businessman; after 21 years of marriage; in Bridgeport, Conn.
Divorced. By Cinemactress Myrna Loy, 36: Cineproducer Arthur Hornblow Jr., 49; in Reno.
Died. Dr. John Richard Brinkley, 56, Kansas' goat-bearded "goat-gland" medico-politico; of heart disease; in San Antonio. He exploited the desire of age for youth's potency, peddling a gland emulsion and grafting goat glands at his "rejuvenation clinic" in Milford, Kans. In his heyday he had three yachts, several raudy limousines, decorated himself with diamonds, employed 50 secretaries, took in a reputed $1,000,000 a year. He sold prescriptions over the air from his own radio station, broadcast diagnoses, threw in a little preaching. After Kansas revoked his license to practice and the old Federal Radio Commission stopped his broadcasts, he moved the scene of his operations over the Mexican border. He ran for Governor of Kansas three times, nearly won twice, ran for Senator from Texas last year, withdrew in the middle of the campaign. He finally went bankrupt for more than $1,000,000.
Died. John Barrymore, 60; of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscles), with chronic inflammation of the kidneys, cirrhosis of the liver, and gastric ulcers as contributing factors; in Hollywood.
Died. Dr. John Miller Turpin Finney, 78, famed surgeon, Chief Consultant in Surgery with the A.E.F. in World War I; in Baltimore. He was a teacher and surgeon at Johns Hopkins for more than 30 years.
Died. The Rt. Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe, 85, Episcopal Missionary Bishop of Alaska, oldest active bishop in the Anglican communion; in Victoria, B.C.
Canadian-born, he was sent to Alaska as a bishop in 1895, the year before the Klondike strike, learned to live in the arctic wilderness, travel behind a dog team, mushed 2,000 miles a year carrying out his duties. When he was 75 he abandoned the dog team for faster means of transportation. Four times he refused bishoprics in the U.S. His own wild diocese covered nearly 600,000 miles.
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