Monday, May. 05, 1941

Engaged. Norman Armour Jr., 21, Princeton junior, only child of U.S. Ambassador to the Argentine Norman ("The Ideal Diplomat") Armour; and Cynthia Sewell Burrage, 19, granddaughter of the late multimillionaire Boston copper king Albert Cameron Burrage; in Boston.

Engaged. Marian Sulzberger, 22, daughter of New York Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger; and Orvil E. Dreyfoos, 28, Manhattan stockbroker; in Manhattan.

Married. Lieut. Cyril Patrick McCormack, son of plump, honey-voiced Tenor John McCormack; and Patricia Eccles; in Dublin. Tenor McCormack, now 56, emerged from "retirement" to sing two songs.

Died. Max ("Boo-Boo") Hoff, 48, tiny, roistering gambler, promoter, boxing-stable manager who made millions selling illicit liquor during Prohibition years, lost everything after Repeal, ended by running a soda-pop juke joint in West Philadelphia; apparently of an overdose of sleeping tablets; in Philadelphia.

Died. Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope, eighth Duke of Newcastle, 75, one of England's ranking peers, onetime owner of the famed, traditionally deadly Hope diamond (now the property of Washington's Evalyn Walsh McLean), onetime husband of the late, tempestuous, U.S.-born Actress May Yohe; in Dorking, England.

Died. Charles Edward Russell, 80, newspaperman, Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer, lifelong pioneer for political and economic reforms; in Washington. One of the original "muckrakers" who attacked social abuses at the beginning of the century, he raked especially the meat packers and railroads. An advocate of Populism in his youthful days in Iowa, he lived to crusade for woman suffrage, a Jewish national state, Irish independence, for Socialism after 1908, for Wendell Willkie in 1940.

Died. George de Forest Brush, 84, oldtime U.S. portraitist, of 19th-Century academic traditions, past whose pretty, clear-colored mother-&-child portraits, prominently hung in older museums, the U.S. museum-strolling public has for 50 years beaten a reverent, admiring path; in Hanover, N.H.

Died. August Heckscher, 92, shrewd, crusty, tufty-bearded, Hamburg-born industrialist and financier who made fortunes in coal and zinc, survived to amass even greater wealth as one of the most active and hardheaded manipulators of New York City real estate, and to distribute an estimated $30,000,000 in charities; in Mountain Lake, Fla.

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