Monday, May. 15, 1944

Married. Kathleen Kennedy, 24, daughter of former Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy; and William John Robert Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, 26, in London (see p. 22).

Sued for Divorce. By Judy Garland, 21, starry-eyed, singing cinemactress; U.S. Army Air Forces Sergeant David Rose, 33, bandleader-composer, ex-husband of Martha Raye; after two and a half years of marriage, a year of separation; in Hollywood.

Reported Dead. Paul Poiret, 65, onetime dictator of fashion; in Paris. In 1898 he quit his job as umbrella salesman to design women's clothes, became the world's top-ranking designer with his creation of the hobble skirt, later blossomed out as playwright, painter, actor, coiffeur (creator of bobbed hair). Dressmaker to royalty, he came to London in 1912 at the invitation of Margot Asquith, gave a spring showing at No. 10 Downing St. Portly, pompous, dark-skinned Couturier Poiret was an autocratic extrovert, lived like an Oriental potentate in a Paris house bedecked with ibises, parrots, monkeys, half-naked Negro guards. In 1929 he went bankrupt, for a time was a Paris department-store designer at $4 a dress, finally went on the dole.

Died. Mrs. Alfred Emanuel Smith, 65, wife of the Empire State's brown-derbied ex-Governor and Democratic Presidential nominee (1928); of virus pneumonia; in Manhattan.

Died. William Ellery Leonard, 68, longtime agoraphobiac, poet (Two Lives), professor of English at the University of Wisconsin; of a heart ailment; in Madison. In his autobiography (The Locomotive God), he revealed that his terror of travel, which kept him locked in a "phobic prison" of five campus blocks, traced back to a roaring locomotive that scared the be-junior out of him when he was two. In 1935 his third wife (Coed Grace Golden) led him out of sight of his home--to walk a fearful eight blocks to Madison's Capitol Square. When she divorced him two years later, he locked himself up again, seldom ventured out after remarrying his second wife in 1940.

Died. Dave Hennen Morris, 72, philanthropist, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, longtime friend and early political backer of Franklin Roosevelt; after long illness; in Manhattan. He made a hit with the music-loving Belgians when he arrived in Brussels with a violin case under his arm, soon won the friendship of violin-playing Queen Elizabeth. After four years of diplomacy, pince-nezed Ambassador Morris returned to his medical and educational philanthropies.

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