Monday, May. 11, 1942
Married. Consuelo Morgan Thaw, 40, sister of Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt (mother of Gloria), of Lady Furness, of Harry Hays Morgan Jr.; and Alfons Beaumont Landa, 44, law partner of Joseph E. Davies; she for the third time, he for the second; in Beverly Hills.
Married. Judge Joseph Alphonse Valin, 84, chief guardian of the Dionne Quintuplets; and Beatrice Provencher, 29, formerly one of their nurses; in North Bay, Ontario.
Marriage Revealed. Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist Josephine Winslow Johnson (Now in November, 1934); and Grant G. Cannon; she for the second time; in Webster Groves, Mo.
Divorced. Author Edgar Rice ("Tarzan") Burroughs, 66; by Florence Gilbert Burroughs, 36, his second wife; in Los Angeles. She testified he told her he wanted to be alone.
Died. Brigadier General Harold H. George, 49; killed by a runaway plane on an airfield; in Australia (see p. 28).
Died. Abraham Epstein, 50, longtime fighter for social security; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Credited with being the strongest single influence in the U.S. on the trend of public opinion toward the adoption of social security legislation, he had been writing, organizing, talking, lobbying for his ideas for almost 20 years, before the Federal Social Security Act was passed.
Died. John Hewitt Andrus, 62, one of 16 Spanish-American War soldiers who volunteered as "guinea pigs" in Dr. Walter Reed's fight against yellow fever; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. Warned that the experiment might kill him, he let himself be injected with blood from a yellow fever victim so that Reed could study the disease's course.
Died. Thorvald Stauning, 68, towering, red-bearded Prime Minister of Denmark; in Copenhagen. Flower-loving, neighbor-loving, he was a sentimental plumper of "Greenland for the Eskimos." wrote a best-selling book titled My Trip to Greenland, believed, till too late, in the neighborliness of Denmark's neighbors.
Died. Emil von Sauer, 79, famed concert pianist of the '90s; of a heart attack; in Vienna.
Left. By the late Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: to Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art, $2,500,000; to charities, the residue of her estate.
Died. William Randolph Hearst's "Helen" (see p. 57)
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