Monday, Jan. 03, 1944
Married. Navy Lieut. Joseph Willard Roosevelt, 25, son of the late Major Kermit Roosevelt; and Nancy Thayer, 24, socialite translator (of foreign broadcasts for FCC); in Manhattan. Roosevelt, whose father Kermit died on Alaskan duty last June, is on leave after a year's service in the South Pacific.
Divorced. By Doris Duke Cromwell, 30, "richest girl in the world": James Henry Roberts ("Jimmy") Cromwell, 47, ex-Minister to Canada; after eight years of marriage, her first, his second; in Reno. Cromwell recently obtained in New Jersey a permanent injunction against her Reno action, later announced that he would contest the divorce.
Died. Paul Burney Johnson, 63, Governor of Mississippi; of a heart ailment; in Hattiesburg, Miss. A farmer's son, handsome, 6 ft. 3 in. Johnson rose from teacher, Circuit Court judge and Congressman to Governor in 1939--with the support of Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. He was famed in Mississippi's bizarre politics as the choice of the "runt-pig" people, he tried to stem lynchings, left the state a surplus approaching $24,000,000.
Died. Dr. James Henry Kimball, 69, longtime New York City weatherman; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. White-maned bachelor Kimball wrote the meteorological classic, Storm Log of the North Atlantic, gained nationwide acclaim in the '20s for his indispensable advice to Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his transatlantic followers.
Died. Dr. Russell Henry Chittenden, 87, discoverer of protein, longtime director of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School (1898-1922); in New Haven, As a 19-year-old Sheffield senior, he was the first to isolate in living tissue a free amino acid, found in it the glycocoll and glycogen later famed as protein.
Died. Albert Nelson Marquis, 88, founder, longtime editor and 23 lines of Who's Who, after a brief illness; in Evanston, Ill. In 1899 Marquis issued his first edition, with 8,602 names. It sold 4,000 copies. The last (22nd) edition contained 31,692 names, sold over 60,000. Marquis normally received 25 self-nominations a day.
Death Revealed. The New Deal, 10, after long illness; of malnutrition and desuetude. Child of the 1932 election campaign, the New Deal had four healthy years, began to suffer from spots before the eyes in 1937, and never recovered from the shock of war. Last week its father, Franklin Roosevelt, pronounced it dead.
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