Monday, Sep. 06, 1943

Married. Elissa Landi, 38, novel-writing stage & screen actress, granddaughter of Austria's Empress Elizabeth (whose daughter, Elissa's mother, was never acknowledged by the Emperor); and Curtiss Kinney Thomas, 37, author; she for the second time; in Manhattan.

Married. Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville Jr., 49, asbestos heir; and Macie Marie Ainsworth Ettinger ("Sunny") Moran, 19, twice-married ex-chorine; in Manhattan. The marriage lasted 7 hr. 45 min. At week's end Mrs. Manville No. 7, fortified with a book about the Medici, took a train to Reno, and New York State Senator Louis B. Heller said he would sponsor a bill to outlaw matrimonial Houdinis who "affront the majesty and dignity of the state."

Married. John Collier, 59, earnest, able U.S. Indian Commissioner since 1933: and Laura Thompson, 37, the University of Chicago's coordinator of Indian Education studies; each for the second time; two days after divorce ended his 37-year-long first marriage; at the Stewart Indian Agency, Nev.

Missing In Action. Naval Reserve Lieut. Joseph Marcus George, 31, younger son of Georgia's able, conservative Senator Walter Franklin George; in an Atlantic coast patrol plane.

Died. Arthur Farnsworth, 36, aeronautical-parts executive, husband of Screen Tragedienne Bette Davis; two days after he dropped unconscious on Hollywood Boulevard, two months after a head-banging fall downstairs; in Hollywood.

Died. King Boris of Bulgaria, 49, Hitler's puppet; of a bullet wound, heart trouble or fright.

Died. Peter Foley, 87, the 26-mile Boston Marathon's Methuselah; in Winchester, Mass. Rating his best place (twelfth) at 50, the white-and-pink-trunked gnome finished 41st in a field of 100 when he was 70, hung up his shoes at 82. He trained on long walks, short ales.

Died. Edward ("Eddie") Savoy, 88, longtime chief messenger of the U.S. State Department; in Washington. Tiny, tactful Negro Savoy became the Department's sentry-page six years after the Civil War, at his 1933 retirement had served 21 Secretaries as minister extraordinary to the entrances, hats, canes and confidences of the world's diplomatic great. Savoy-isms: "When I meet a man who is domineering to his inferiors, I know he is sycophantic to his superiors, and no gentleman"; on speaking the language of diplomacy successfully: "Never say what you want to say, and never say anything before you think twice."

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