Monday, Nov. 11, 1940
Married. Theodora Griffis, 25, daughter of Stanton Griffis, chairman of the executive committee of Paramount Pictures and of the board of Madison Square Garden Corp.; and leftish Lyricist John Patrick Digues Treville Latouche, 23, author of Ballad for Americans, collaborator on Ethel Waters' latest Broadway hit, Cabin in the Sky.
Divorced. Dorothy Gould Baer Guisan, daughter of muchmarried Frank Jay Gould, granddaughter of famed Financier Jay Gould; by Lieut. Colonel Henri Louis Guisan, son of General Henri Guisan, Commander in Chief of Switzerland's Army; at Lucerne, Switzerland.
Divorced. Novelist Ernest Hemingway, by his second wife, the former Pauline Pfeiffer, onetime fashion writer, who married him in Paris 13 years ago. Uncontested decree awarded custody of the two Hemingway children, Patrick and Gregory, to his wife.
Died. Johan Egbert Frederik de Kok, 58, general managing director of Royal Dutch Co. (successor to the late, great Henri Deterding), able amateur flier; of heart disease; at The Hague.
Died. Manuel Azafia, 60, president of the Spanish Republic during the Civil War; of lung congestion, with heart complications; at Montauban, France.
Died. British Vice Admiral Humphrey Hugh Smith, 64, briny-tongued Distinguished Service medal winner, onetime captain of Greenwich's Royal Naval College, author of a slaphappy volume of wardroom anecdotes (An Admiral Never Forgets); in circumstances, according to the Admiralty, which arose "out of the various hazards of war not connected with any particular operation or ship."
Died. Arthur Heming, 70, artist who specialized in Canada's northern forests; at Hamilton, Ont. Until he was 60 he sketched in black, white, yellow. Then, discovering he was no longer colorblind, he splurged in brightest hues.
Died. Clarence Clark Hamlin, 72, Colorado newspaper publisher (Colorado Springs Gazette and Telegraph), lawyer and onetime Republican leader; after a stroke; in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Died. Gustavus Augustus Eisen, 93, Swedish-American biologist (he corresponded with Darwin, found a way to raise figs in California, got Sequoia National Park created to save the big trees), archeologist (he dug up weighty evidence to prove that the Chalice of Antioch was Sir Galahad's Grail), author (he published some no works, the last a huge monograph on Mesopotamian Cylinder-Seals); in Manhattan.
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