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Married. Princess Senije, 27, third sister of King Zog I, Italy's puppet, poker-playing ruler of Albania; and H. R. H. Prince Mehmed-Abid of Turkey, youngest son of Sultan Abdul ("Abdul the Damned") Hamid II, onetime oppressor of Albanians; in Tirana.

Married. Marshall Field III, 42, twice-divorced Chicago department store scion, who receives the bulk of his grandfather's $140,000,000 estate when 50; and Ruth Pruyn Phipps, who divorced Socialite Ogden Phipps last month; in Manhattan.

Married. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell, 63, famed mathematician, philosopher, pacifist, author, lecturer, advocate of complete sexual freedom including marital infidelity; and Patricia Helen Spence, 25, writer; at Midhurst, Sussex, England. Year ago Earl Russell's second wife, mother of an illegitimate son by a journalist, divorced him for adultery (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934 et seq.).

Died. Theodore Clifford Wallen, 41, chief of the New York Herald Tribune's Washington Bureau since 1929; after long illness; in Washington, D. C.

Died. Harvey Parnell, 55, onetime (1928-32) Governor of Arkansas whose administration was characterized by the Arkansas House of Representatives as the "most corrupt since the days of Reconstruction"; of a heart ailment; in Little Rock.

Died. Shapurji Saklatvala, 61, son of a rich Bombay Parsi merchant, second Communist to sit in the British House of Commons; of a heart attack; in London.

Died. Henry Bedinger Rust, 63, chairman of the board of The Koppers Co., largest U. S. gas engineering organization and one of the bulwarks of the Mellon Empire; in Pittsburgh.

Died. George V, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, 70; of bronchial catarrh; at Sandringham (see p. 22).

Died. Rudyard Kipling, 70, novelist, poet and storyteller; after a stomach operation; in London (see p. 23).

Died. Major General John Biddle (retired), 76, Superintendent of the U. S. Military Academy (1916-17), Assistant Chief of Staff of the Army (1917-18), Commander of U. S. forces in Great Britain (1918-19) for which he was made Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath; after long illness; in San Antonio, Tex.

Died. Hamilton Fish, 86, son of President Grant's Secretary of State, father of New York's Representative Hamilton Fish Jr., Assistant Treasurer of the U. S. (1903-08), Representative from New York (1909-11); in Aiken, S. C.


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