Monday, Jun. 24, 1940

Engaged. Mary Marvin Breckinridge, 34, globe-trotting socialite photographer, reporter, European CBS radio newscaster; and Jefferson Patterson, first secretary of the U. S. Embassy in Berlin.

Married. Lieut. Henry Harley Arnold Jr., son of balding, grey-haired Chief of Air Corps Major General Arnold; and Beatrice Catherine Hickey; in Manhattan, day after the groom's graduation from West Point.

Married. Maria-Christina-Teresa-Alexandra-Guadelupe-Maria de la ConcepciOn Ildefonsa y Victoria-Eugenia, 28, Infanta of Spain, youngest daughter of ex-King Alfonso; and Count Enrico Marone, wealthy (Cinzano vermouth) Italian: in Rome.

Married. Louisa Ayres Robert, 24, comely swimming star, daughter of National Democratic Committee Secretary Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr. by his first wife, Louise Ayres; and Grant Meade Le Roux: in Atlanta, Ga.

Married. Alice Damrosch Wolfe, ski-minded daughter of famed Conductor Walter Johannes Damrosch; and Herman Kiaer, Deputy High Commissioner for Norway to the 1939 New York World's Fair; in Manhattan: she for the third time, he for the first.

Died. Henry W. Antheil Jr., 27, attache of the U. S. Legation at Helsinki, younger brother of noted Composer George Antheil; when the Finnish airliner in which he was flying from Tallinn, Estonia to Helsinki mysteriously exploded in mid-air and plunged into the Gulf of Finland.

Died. Thakore Saheb Shri Dharmendrasinhji, 30, native ruler of Rajkot, India; of a heart attack; while hunting in the Gir Forest. It was to give the subjects of the despotic Thakore Saheb a voice in their Government that Mahatma Gandhi began his "fast unto death" in 1939, which he ended at the intervention of British Viceroy Lord Linlithgow, and the establishment of an advisory council.

Died. Marcus (Emperor Marcus I) Garvey, 52, Jamaica-born Negro leader of the defunct "Back to Africa" movement; of a paralytic stroke: in London.

Died. George Fitzmaurice, 55, Paris-born pioneer cinema director and writer; of streptococcic infection: in Los Angeles. He first made his name directing Pearl White in The Perils of Pauline, later directed such stars as Greta Garbo (Mata Hari), Gary Cooper (Peter Ibbetson), Ronald Colman (Raffles).

Died. DuBose Heyward, 55, Southern poet and novelist (Porgy, Mamba's Daughters); of a heart attack; in Tryon, N.C.

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