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Divorced. By Helen Lee Eames Doherty Wessel, stepdaughter of the late multimillionaire utilitycoon Henry L. Doherty: Theodore William Wessel, former Danish Chargé d'Affaires in Santiago; seven years after marriage; in West Palm Beach. Her extravagant Washington debut in threadbare 1930 was the target of Congressional criticism; party favors for some of the guests were automobiles...
Turned over to Chicago's war scrap pile were three and, a quarter tons of armored limousine-the rolling fortress in which once rode Utilitycoon Samuel Insull. To Philadelphia's scrap collection Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, wealthy widow of the Morgan partner, gave a high-grade steel fence that ringed the Stotesbury Whitemarsh Hall estate. Height of the fence: eight feet. Length: nearly two miles. Content: enough steel for some 18,000 machine guns...
Died. Floyd Leslie Carlisle, 61, U.S. utilitycoon, spokesman for the power industry; of an embolism; in Glen Cove, L.I. A longtime banker and newsprint magnate, he moved on to become head of Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, biggest U.S. utility, and board chairman of Niagara Hudson Power Corp. (which manufactures all the power produced on the U.S. side of Niagara Falls), world's largest private distributor of electric power...
Died. Hamilton Fish Kean, 79, wealthy ex-Senator from New Jersey (1929-35), banker, utilitycoon; in Manhattan. He held his first and only public office when he became Senator...
Died. Harvey Crowley Couch, 63, the Southwest's No. 1 utilitycoon, Arkansas's wealthiest citizen; at his summer home on Lake Catherine near Hot Springs, Ark. Son of a farmer-preacher, he had saved $156 by the time he was 26, put it into a partnership with a village postmaster and strung a telephone line from Arkansas into neighboring Louisiana. He built it into a four-State line and sold it nine years later to Bell Telephone for $1,500,000. He used the money to organize Arkansas Power & Light, built that into a $71,000,000 colossus...