Sued for divorce. George Jessel, 44, Broadway comedian; by his third wife, 18-year-old Lois Andrew Jessel; on charges of cruel & inhuman treatment ("George's heart belongs to the theater, not to any one person"); in Hollywood.

Died. Stanley Kolbusz, 19, whose heart was sewed up in a delicate and unusual operation after he was stabbed last month (TIME, July 27); of double pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. Harry (nee Hilda Margaret) Weston, 26, brother of England's famed woman athlete Mark (nee Mary) Weston; by her own hand (hanging) in a meadow near Plymstock, Plymouth, England. He was born a girl, was unsuccessfully operated on several months ago (for a not uncommon genital abnormality called hypospadias) when she was about to be called up for national service. Her sister became her brother six years ago, after holding the Women's British National Shotputting Championship from 1924 to 1930, in August 1936 married a girl she had known as a girl.

Died. Louis Borno, 76, former President of Haiti; at Port-au-Prince. Ending a long reign of Haitian terror, he supported U.S. intervention in 1915, was elected President. Among Haitian Presidents he was unique for his longevity (of 24 predecessors most were deposed by bullets, bombs, poison).

Died. Sir Francis Edward Younghus-band, 79, famed British soldier, writer, mystic and explorer; in Lytchett-Minster, England. Thirty-eight years ago he led a risky British expedition to Tibet's forbidden city of Lhasa, forced the hostile lamas to sign a treaty (covering a single sheet of paper seven feet long) aimed at checking Russia's influence. First European to cross the Mustagh Pass (elevation: 19,000 feet), he organized the first expeditions up Mt. Everest, thrice failed to climb it.

Died. Dowager Grand Duchess Marie Anne of Luxembourg, 81, mother of Grand Duchess Charlotte, the refugee ruler of the Duchy; of an abdominal ailment; in Manhattan.

Died. George John Murdock, 84, U.S. inventor; at Newark, N.J. He invented a leakproof gasoline tank similar to that now used in combat planes.

Died. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, 89, British archeologist; in Jerusalem (see p. 64).

Died. Deed-a-day, a 4,000-lb. female Indian elephant, great & good friend of Chicago moppets; of a humane bullet necessitated by stomach ulcers which had wasted her 1,000 Ib. in a month; at Lincoln Park Zoo.

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