Monday, Mar. 24, 1941
Married. Alan Anderson, 22, son of Playwright Maxwell Anderson, and stage manager for the current Broadway production The Talley Method; and Nancy Swan, 21, Barnard College junior; in Manhattan.
Divorced. Betty Compton Walker, 34, onetime dancer; from James J. Walker, New York City's Mayor during the Wall Street-and-nightclub era, now "tsar" of industrial and labor relations of its cloak-&-suit industry; on her second try; because of his "apparently insane tempers"; in Key West, Fla.
Died. Senora Herminia Arrate de Davila, wife of Carlos Davila, onetime president of Chile and Chilean Ambassador to the U. S., who upon President Roosevelt's intervention last December was flown from Manhattan to her Chilean home in a U. S. Army bomber; in Santiago.
Died. Frederick Britten Austin, 55, author of many a super-serial historical romance (The Road to Glory); in Weston super Mare, England. Romancer Austin's heroic imagination made his magazine articles prescient. Said he in 1935: "Imagine four million Parisians streaming out of Paris by every road, choking every artery, hindering all military movements, preventing the influx of supplies, paralyzing more or less the nerve centre of the country. That is what is going to happen when the first German bombers appear over Paris."
Died. Elizabeth Madox Roberts, 55, Kentucky poet and novelist whose grave, searching stories of her mountain people (The Time of Man, Black is my True-love's Hair, Song in the Meadow) were told with a dignity of language that made her one of America's most distinguished women writers; of anemia; in Orlando, Fla.
Died. Nicholas ("Collective Security") Titulescu, 57, towering, trigger-witted Rumanian diplomat, picturesque pillar of the League of Nations in its palmy days, six times his country's pro-French, pro-democratic Foreign Minister, leader with Eduard Benes in the late Little Entente; of pernicious anemia resulting from tuberculosis; in exile, in Cannes, France.
Died. Emory Roy Buckner, 63, member of the potent Manhattan law firm of Root, Clark, Buckner & Ballantine, one of the great trial lawyers of his time, who as U. S. District Attorney for southern New York during Prohibition years gained fame by padlocking Manhattan speakeasies, prosecuting former Attorney General Harry (Teapot Dome) Daugherty, sending Earl (Vanities) Carroll to Atlanta for giving false testimony to a Federal grand jury about publicly tubbing a show girl in champagne; after brief illness; in Manhattan.
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