Monday, Apr. 07, 1941
Born. To Margaret Sullavan, blonde, piquant film actress, and Theatrical Agent Leland Hayward: their third child, a son (8 lb.); in Los Angeles.
Married. Adelaide Chatfield-Taylor, 20, socialite daughter of Under Secretary of Commerce Wayne Chatfield-Taylor; and John Marshall Kernochan, 21, of Tuxedo Park and Harvard's junior class; in Williamsburg, Va.
Married. Lucile Sheppard, Radcliffe graduate student, third daughter of Texas' mild, old Dry Senator Morris Sheppard, who sponsored the 18th Amendment; and Arthur W. Keyes Jr., Harvard architectural student from Rutland, Vt.; in the presence of the Texas and Vermont Congressional delegations, Vice President Wallace, New Jersey's Governor Edison; in Washington.
Married. Ilona Massey, 30, blonde, Budapest-born film singer (Balalaika}; and Alan Curtis, 31, cinemactor (Four Sons); each for the second time; in Los Angeles. Gushed Dancer Massey, who developed her affection for Curtis when she saw him minister to an injured woman in Boise, Idaho last spring: "He was so sweet and tender . . . that I just fell in love with him." Died. Laurence Hills, 61, long-time editor and general manager of the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, oldtime member of the all-star staff of the turn-of-the-century New York Sun; in Paris.
Died. John MacGregor Grant, 66, Scottish-born president of Transamerica Corp., $150,000,000 holding company for the Giannini banking empire; of heart disease; in San Francisco.
Died The Rev. Heinrich Niemoller, 81, father of the Rev. Martin Niemoller, imprisoned leader of the Confessional movement which opposed Nazi domination of the German Lutheran Church in Elberfeld, Germany.
Died. Professor Eugene Dubois, 82, Dutch anthropologist who in 1891 found the first skull of the Java ape man, concluded he had discovered the "missing link," called it Pithecanthropus erectus; in Haelen, Belgium. Dr. Dubois's find started the '905' hottest scientific controversy, from which, for reasons of piety, he suddenly withdrew, locking up his fossils from the world's sight until 1926. Thereafter, despite important new evidence, he held that Java Man was no more than an early ape.
Birthday. Man O' War, glamor race horse of American thoroughbreds, longtime champion sire; in fine fettle; his 24th; at Faraway Farm, near Lexington, Ky.
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