Monday, Apr. 28, 1941
Born. To Gerald Felix Warburg, cello-playing son of the late Banker Felix Moritz Warburg (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), and Natica Nast, daughter of Publisher Conde Nast (Vogue, House and Garden): a son, their second child (weight: 8 Ib. 4 1/2 oz.); in Manhattan.
Birthdays. Princess Elizabeth, heiress presumptive to the throne of Great Britain, quietly, her 15th. Commander in Chief Adolf Hitler, with his armies in the Balkans, his 52nd (see p. 22). Brazil's President Getulio Vargas, in whose honor 1,000 new schoolhouses were opened, his 58th. Maestro Leopold Stokowski, promising to leave Army bands for his Philadelphia orchestra "after the present national crisis is past," his 59th. Actress May Robson, a guest at a special screening of her 60th picture (Million Dollar Baby), her 76th.
Engaged. Benson Ford, 21, second son of Edsel Ford, grandson of Henry Ford, and an imminent candidate for military service; and Edith McNaughton, daughter of oldtime Cadillac Executive Lynn McNaughton; in Grosse Pointe, Mich.
Engaged. Rush Dew Holt, 35, West Virginia's isolationist junior Senator from 1935 to 1941 (youngest ever elected); and Helen Froelich, 26, teacher at National Park Seminary, near Washington.
Married. Deanna Durbin, 19, blue-eyed cinema lark; and Vaughn Paul, 25, associate producer (son of Val Paul, Universal studio manager), her only beau; in Los Angeles' Wilshire Methodist Episcopal Church, with 900 screen folk looking on.
Married. Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford, 20, sixth and youngest of the beauteous daughters of ex-Appeaser Lord Redesdale; and Lord Andrew Cavendish, 20, Coldstream Guardsman, second son of the Duke of Devonshire; in London. Sister Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, appearing publicly for the first time since she returned last year from a visit to Germany with mysterious bullet wounds in her neck (TIME, Jan. 15, 1940), attended--by a side door.
Married. Mimi de la Grange, 22, daugher of French ex-Senator Baron Amaury de la Grange, niece of Socialite Mrs. George D. Widener; and Henry Baldwin Hyde, 26, Wall Street lawyer, son of ex-Expatriate Insurance Heir James Hazen Hyde, who after 35 years in Paris recently returned to Manhattan, scene of his feats as a dandy at the turn of the century; in Manhattan.
Married. Emer de Valera, second daugher of Eire's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, language student at the National University, Dublin; and Brian 0 Cuiv, on of the late bean-tall, droop-mustached Sean O Cuiv, director of Eire's Information Bureau; in Dublin. Taoiseach de Valera gave the bride away.
Married. Helen Huntington Astor, 46, former wife of Vincent Astor; and Lytle Hull, 54, Palm Beach real-estate broker and longtime friend of the Astors, who were divorced on Sept. 4, 1940, after 26 years' married life; at Garnett, S.C.
Married. Mme. Frances Alda Gatti-Casazza, 55, oldtime opera singer, former wife of the Metropolitan Opera's late manager, Giulio Gatti-Casazza; and Ray Vir Den, 45, Manhattan advertising executive, and something of a singer himself; in Charleston, S.C. Chuckled the bridegroom, vice president of the famed Dutch Treat Club: "I hope I surprised the boys."
Died. Emil Ganso, 46, slue-footed voluble ex-baker boy who became one of the best young American painters, painting chaste landscapes at Woodstock, N.Y. and bulbous nudes in Manhattan; of a heart attack; in Iowa City, where since September he had been on the art faculty of the University of Iowa.
Died. Josiah Baron Stamp, 60, chief economic adviser to the British Government, chairman of the great London, Midland and Scottish Railway, director of the Bank of England, member of the 1924 Dawes Reparations Commission, leading pre-war advocate of German appeasement; when bombs demolished his house in London (see p. 24).
Died. Lieut. Colonel Dan Tyler Moore 64, military aide to President Theodore Roosevelt during his first term; in Houston, Tex. Once when boxing with the President, Colonel Moore clouted him so hard that he cost T.R. the sight of one eye. Not till 1917, twelve years later, did sporting T.R. allow his aide to learn that the injury was caused by him.
Died. General Paul Rollet, 72, "fightingest man in all France," president of the veterans' organization called the Smashed Faces, grand old man of the Foreign Legion and commandant of the famed First Regiment which fought on the Western Front in World War I; in Paris.
Died. Emile Bernard, 73, one of the last of the French impressionist painters, intimate friend of Paul Gauguin, fellow student of Van Gogh, art critic; in Paris.
Died. William Danforth, 73, roaring, scowling delight for half a century of U.S.' Savoyards; after long illness; in Skaneateles, N.Y. Triple-tonguing Songster Danforth estimated he had sung the title role in The Mikado 1,000 times.
Left. By Heywood Broun, radical columnist and founder of the American Newspaper Guild, who died in December IQ39, and whose selected writings, culled by son Heywood Hale Broun, appeared last week; to his widow, Mrs. Connie Fruscella Broun, and his son; an estate valued at $1,685.
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