Monday, Feb. 16, 1942
Born. To Actress Martha Scott (Our Town), 25, and Airannouncer Carlton Alsop, 40: a son, Carlton Scott, 7 Ib. 6 oz.; in Hollywood.
Marriage Revealed. Eugenia Bankhead, 40, sister of Actress Tallulah; and Marine Corps Sergeant William D. Sprouse; she for the seventh time;* near Montgomery, Ala.
Married. Lady Martha Thornton, 43, widow of Sir Henry Thornton, president of Canadian National Railways; and Dr. Henry James, 61, Manhattan physician; in Manhattan.
Died. Fritz Todt, 50, German Minister of Munitions and Major General; "in an aircrash"; reportedly somewhere east of Germany. The Nazis' No. 1 builder, he was in charge of military reconstruction in the wake of the Army's advances through Europe. Other Todt jobs: the Siegfried Line, the new Chancellery in Berlin, the Autobahnen, network of superhighways.
Died. Dr. Mahlon William Locke, 61, Ontario's famed assembly-line purveyor of arthritis treatments (by foot yanking); of a heart attack; near his home, Williamsburg, Ont. He did most of his work seated in a swivel chair in his yard, whirling around to queues of patients converging on him like the spokes of a wheel. He charged $1 a visit (usually less than a minute), and at the height of his popularity attracted as many as 1,000 patients a day.
Died. Walter Davidson, 65, president and co-founder of Harley-Davidson Motor Co., motorcycle manufacturers; after an operation; in Milwaukee.
Died. George Washington Stephens, 75, Commissioner of the Saar Valley (1926-27); after a year's illness; in Los Angeles.
Died. Gordon William ("Pawnee Bill") Lillie, 81, long-haired frontiersman, Wild West showman; in Pawnee, Okla. Trapper and buffalo hunter, he was the last surviving leader of the "Boomers," homesteaders who rushed to settle the Indian Territory now Oklahoma.
Died. Alice Wilson Page, 84, widow of Walter Hines Page, World War I Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Two of her sons, Frank C. and Arthur W., are vice presidents, respectively of I.T. & T. and A.T. & T.
*Her first three marriages were all to the same man, Playboy Morton McMichael Hoyt, brother of the late Poetess Elinor Wylie. Hoyt attracted attention in 1928 when, on a dare, he jumped off the liner Rochambeau into mid-Atlantic. Another Hoyt stunt: chopping up a whiskbroom, eating it with cream and sugar. He and Eugenia were divorced, twice remarried and divorced between 1927 and 1930.
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