Monday, Dec. 16, 1940

Christened. Winston Churchill II, blue-eyed, seven-week-old son of freshman M. P. Randolph Churchill. Godfather: Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook. Prime Minister Churchill left his work long enough to be present. Scene of the christening was censored. Best guess: the House of Commons crypt.

Birthdays. Jean Sibelius, great Finnish composer, his 75th. Field Marshal August von Mackensen, German hero of World War I, his gist. William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, denouncing those who would have America "become a sort of tail end of a foreign empire," his Sist. Tom Mooney, labor saint, his 58th, at St. Luke's hospital, San Francisco, where in ten months he has undergone three abdominal operations, four transfusions. William Constant Wheeler, the nation's only authentic son of the Revolution, at his South Woodbury, Vt. farmhouse, his 93rd. His father, who volunteered under Washington at the age of 14, was 81 when William Constant Wheeler was born.

Engaged. Deanna Durbin, 19, singing cinemiss; and Vaughn Paul, 25, associate producer, son of Val Paul (Universal studio manager), with whom Deanna has kept company ever since her parents allowed her to have dates. In her next film. Producer Joe Pasternak will let Deanna get engaged on the screen too.

Married. Lillias Pomeroy Dulles, 25, daughter of John Foster Dulles, international finance expert and senior partner in Manhattan's potent law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell; and Robert Hinshaw, 25, Princeton-schooled advertising man; in Manhattan.

Died. Franklyn Laws Hutton, 64, dapper little Manhattan broker, father of the Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow, whose huge Woolworth fortune, inherited through his first wife, he managed so shrewdly that his daughter became the "richest girl in the world"; at his plantation near Charleston, S. C.

Died. John Ball, 79, eight times British Amateur golf champion, first amateur to win the British Open (1890), and till the advent of Bobby Jones, only golfer ever to win both Open and Amateur competitions in the same year; at Holy well, Wales.

Died. Eddie Guerin, 80, Irish-born international crook, bank robber and purse-snatcher; in poverty, at Bury, Lancashire, England. Celebrated for his criminal exploits in collaboration with the legendary "Chicago May" Churchill, who helped him stick up the American Express office in Paris, Guerin made a sensational escape from Devil's Island in 1905, only to find, when he reached London, that "Chicago May" had deserted him for a new lover.

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