Monday, Feb. 21, 1944
Married. Styles Bridges, 45, chunky, loud Republican Senator from New Hampshire; and Doloris Thauwald, 26, civil servant in the State Department; he for the third time, she for the first; in St. Paul, Minn.
Divorced. By Cosmetician Elizabeth Arden (Mrs. Florence Nightingale Evlanoff), the shady side of 60; Prince Michael Evlanoff, fiftyish, of the late "international set"; in Augusta, Me. The grounds: cruel and abusive treatment.
Killed in Action. Marine Pfc. Stephen Peter Hopkins, 18, youngest of Harry Lloyd Hopkins' three sons; in the Marshall Islands. Stephen, who had preferred active service to Officer Training School, was buried at sea.
Died. Israel Joshua Singer, 50, bald, Polish-born Yiddish novelist (The Brothers Ashkenazi), since 1923 a member of the editorial staff of Manhattan's Jewish Daily Forward; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan.
Died. Margaret Woodrow Wilson, 57, eldest of the late President's three daughters; of uremia; in Pondicherry, India. The image of her father, in early years, Miss Wilson was a concert singer, welfare worker; in 1939 she became absorbed in the writings of Sri Aurobindo, moved to his Indian religious colony.
Died. Edgar Selwyn, 68, cinema and stage producer; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. Long on Broadway, he started as a film producer in 1912, put the "wyn" in Goldwyn when he merged with Samuel Goldfish in 1916. Director of Helen Hayes's Oscar-winning movie (The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931), Selwyn's best-known Broadway productions were Why Marry (1917--first Pulitzer Prize play), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1926), The Wookey (1941).
Died. Dr. Bernard Sachs, 86, famed child neurologist; in Manhattan. Spry, goateed Sachs (who married his second wife at 82) called psychoanalysis a "disruptive . . . mechanism," deprecated some psychologists' emphasis on sex-consciousness in children, insisted that what they needed was beneficent tyranny.
Reported Dead. Lina Cavalieri, 69, beauteous, thrice-married soprano of Caruso's day; in an air raid on Florence, Italy. It was on the occasion of her profitable divorce from the late eccentric Robert Winthrop ("Sheriff Bob") Chanler that his late eccentric brother John Armstrong Chaloner sent him the famed telegram: "Who's loony now?"*
*Brother John had escaped from New York's Bloomingdale Asylum, gone to Virginia, where he was declared legally sane.
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