Monday, Aug. 02, 1943
Born. To Lana Turner, 23, Cinema-blonde, and Private Stephen Crane, 27, her second (and third) husband: a daughter; in Hollywood. Weight: 7 lb. 14 oz.
Married. Winifred Stilwell, 25, daughter of Lieut. General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell; and Army Captain William Ellis Cox, ,25; in her family's Carmel, Calif, home.
Married. Greer Garson, 31, red-haired cinemactress who got 1942's Academy Award; and U.S.N.R. Lieut. Richard Ney, 29, peacetime cinemactor; each for the second time; in Santa Monica, Calif. In Mrs. Miniver, he was her son.
Missing in Action. British Army Lieut. John David Graves, 23, son of Author Robert von Ranke Graves (Goodbye to All That); after capturing a Japanese outpost singlehanded; in Burma. In World War I, his father held the same rank in the same regiment (Royal Welch Fusiliers), was once listed as "died of wounds."
Missing in Action. Air Forces Captain Jefferson Davis ("Jeff") Dickson Jr., 47, Europe's No. 1 prewar sports promoter; in air action over Germany. Mississippi farm boy Dickson went to France in 1917 as a U.S. Army cameraman, after the war bought a Paris boxing arena, in 1931 built Paris' Madison Square Garden-inspired Palais des Sports.
Missing in Action. Lieut. Commander McClelland Barclay, 50, famed illustrator; somewhere in the South Pacific. His well-turned "Fisher Body Girl" became a national cynosure. Commissioned in 1940, he was in the first U.S. "War Art Corps" to reach Australia.
Died. Marine Corps Captain Charles William ("Charlie") Paddock, 42, track star dubbed the onetime "world's fastest human" in the '20s, peacetime manager of California newspapers; in the crash of a Navy plane; near Sitka, Alaska. (Killed in the same crash: Marine Corps Major General William Peterkin Upshur, 61, commander of the Marine Corps Department of the Pacific).
Died. Josiah Clement ("Josh") Wedgwood, 71, Baron Wedgwood of Barlaston, great-great grandson of the famed pottery's founder, Member of Parliament (a Liberal and later a Laborite) for 36 years; in London. Never active in his family's business, he was briefly a naval architect, a magistrate in the Transvaal, a soldier in the Boer War and in World War I (D.S.O.). Outspoken and downright, he backed Edward VIII's plan to marry Wallis Warfield, plugged an Anglo-American union for the preservation of democracy, once told Senator Burton K. Wheeler to "go soak his head."
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