Monday, Jul. 07, 1941
Born. To Henri, Count of Paris, France's Bourbon-Orleans pretender, and Isabelle of Orleans & Bragance: twins, Michel and Jacques, their seventh and eighth children; in French Morocco.
Born. To the wife of Dr. Robert Ley, 51, Nazi Labor Front chief recently reported on the skids: a daughter; in Berlin.
Married. Glamor Girl Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 20; and John Sims Kelly, 31, onetime pro football player whom the bride prefers to call "Jack" rather than "Shipwreck"; in her mother's Manhattan apartment.
Married. Mrs. Irene Curley Bodde Hutton, widow of Broker Franklyn L. Hutton, stepmother of Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow; and James A. Moffett, oil executive, onetime Federal Housing Administrator; both for the third time; at White Sulphur Springs.
Died. Walter White Drew, 55, original model for "Uncle Walt" of the comic strip Gasoline Alley; in Chicago. He was the brother-in-law of the strip's artist, Frank King.
Died. William Guggenheim, 72, philanthropist, maverick younger brother of the copper & nitrate tycoons; in Manhattan. He retired from active participation in the family's businesses in 1900, 16 years later sued Brothers Isaac, Daniel, Murray, Solomon and Simon for $10,000,000, charging they had induced him to waive rights in Chilean mines of whose values he had been ignorant.
Died. Ignace Jan Paderewski, 80, the most famed pianist of his time; in Manhattan (see p. 33).
Died. George Blumenthal, 83, international banker, philanthropist, and president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; in Manhattan. Born in Frankfort on Main, he was sent to this country by Speyer & Co., later became a partner in Lazard Freres. With J. P. Morgan the elder, he was one of five bankers whose $65,000,000 gold loans saved Grover Cleveland from giving up specie payments in 1896. He gave $1,000,000 to the Metropolitan Museum in 1928, close to $2,000,000 to Mount Sinai Hospital.
Died. Andrew Jackson Houston, 87, for 24 days U.S. Senator from Texas; in Baltimore. Appointed to fill the unexpired term of the late Dry Morris Sheppard, he was the oldest newcomer ever seated in the upper house. His father was the great Sam Houston, first and third President of the Lone Star Republic, hero of San Jacinto, one of the first two U.S. Senators from Texas. The lives of father and son spanned all but the first four years of U.S. history.
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