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Sued. Henry Huddleston Rogers III, 31, grandson of one of the founders of Standard Oil; for $70,000 damages; by his secretary, Edward Benson, who claimed that Rogers had walloped him on the head, inflicting a brain concussion, when he asked why he was being fired; in Manhattan...
...heart disease, complicated by uremia; in The Bronx. He successively married and was divorced by Minna Field, niece of Chicago's late Marshall Field; Grace McMillan Jarvis, granddaughter of Michigan's late Senator James McMillan; Mrs. Beatrice Rogers Benjamin Pratt, granddaughter of the late Standard Oilman Henry Huddleston Rogers; and Evelyn Harris Spaulding of Haverhill, Mass. He squandered $4,000,000 of his wives' money on parties and fun, died broke and unattended by any of them or by his four children...
Died. Myrtle Huddleston, 39, first woman to complete the 20-mile swim from Catalina Island to the California mainland (1927); of heart disease; in San Francisco. During her Catalina swim she was bitten about the arms by a barracuda, landed after 20 hr. 42 min. with her left side paralyzed. In 1931 in a Manhattan pool she set a world's swimming endurance record...
...British colleagues, is tired of it, remembers so much that he cannot recall what is important. He pays tribute to the race of Britain's foreign correspondents which largely disappeared with the 1920's: Wickham Steed, George Ward Price, Martin Donohoe, William Bolitho Ryall, Gordon Knox, Sisley Huddleston. Mournfully he adds...
Divorced. Arturo Peralta Ramos; by Millicent Rogers Salm von Hoogstraeten Umos, daughter of the late Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, Standard Oil heir; in Reno. Grounds: extreme mental cruelty...