Monday, Nov. 08, 1943

Born. To Josephine Ford Ford, 20, the late Edsel Ford's daughter, only granddaughter of Henry Ford; and Naval Reserve Cadet Walter Buhl Ford II, 23, Detroit-born '42 Yaleman (no kin): a son, Walter Buhl III, Henry Ford's second great-grandchild; in Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital. Weight: 8 Ib.

Married. British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, 53, G.C.B., soft-spoken master of the Mediterranean air; and Mrs. Marie de Seton Black, 36, promoter of R. A. Freshing Malcolm Clubs in Algiers, Tunis; in Algiers. An air crash near Cairo killed his first wife last January.

Died. Max Reinhardt, 70, famed theatrical producer (The Miracle); of paralysis and pneumonia, after a stroke; in Manhattan. Born near Vienna, the solemn prodigy with the wire-grey pompadour clicked in his first stage role (1893), soon became Berlin's outstanding director. Once praised for the intimate drama, at his Salzburg Festivals (begun in 1920) he out-dreamed a Barnum with his decor, employed huge casts and invited huge guest lists to his Castle Leopoldskron. Celebrated in the U.S. for The Miracle (1924), Jewish Max Reinhardt was reduced to Paris poverty in the early days of Nazidom, made a Hollywood comeback in 1935 with his first & only movie, the $1,300,000 A Midsummer Night's Dream. As he died his Rosalinda (Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus) was entering its second smashing revival year on Broadway.

Died. Joseph Early Widener, 71, famed multimillionaire collector of purse-winning horses ; purse-weakening art ; of a heart attack; in Elkins Park, Pa. The shrewd, lavish Harvardman (father of Peter Arrell Brown Widener II, and "Fifi") inherited some $70,000,000 from his father, the late Civil War mutton provisioner P. A. B. Widener I -- along with a gilt-edged collection of (chiefly Renaissance) Old Masters. He stabled such thoroughbreds as Fair Play (Man o' War's sire), steeplechaser Arc Light, and Osmond (his favorite), mounted in his white & scarlet such jockeys as the great Earle Sande. A veteran plunger on his stable's strains and silks (in 1927 he was allowed stable-loss tax reductions of $800,000), he placed no bets on canvases after the mid-19th Century's Edouard Manet, preferred art's more-than-three-(or even 50-) year-olds-In his colossal, correct Lynnewood Hall at Elkins Park he showed only his best canvases, almost a year to the day before his death left to Washington's National Art Gallery (and to Philadelphia's dismay) some $50,000,000 worth of oil paint's primest pedigrees: more than 100 "best-of-brush," over such names as Titian, Vermeer, Rembrandt.

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