Monday, Mar. 12, 1945

Born. To Sergeant Marion Hargrove, 25, best-selling G.I. humorist (See Here, Private Hargrove}, feature editor of Yank] and Alison Pfeiffer Hargrove, 22: their first child, a son; in Manhattan.

Name: Christopher. Weight: 11 lbs. 7 oz.

Married. Rouben Mamoulian, 47, lean, owl-eyed stage & screen director (Oklahoma!, Queen Christina); and Azadia Newman, 33, comely, lynx-eyed socialite portraitist, cousin of the Duchess of Windsor; he for the first time, she for the third; in Peekskill, N.Y.

Divorced. By Susanna Wilson Hare, 28, chic daughter of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Caldwell Wil son), David Meredith Hare, 28, color photographer and surrealist sculptor; after seven years of childless marriage ; in Reno.

Missing. Lieut. General Millard Fillmore ("Miff") Harmon, 57, studious, unstarched commander of Army Air Forces, Pacific; in a converted Liberator bomber; en route from a forward Pacific base to Hawaii. His ability and knack at coordinating Army, Navy and Marine forces prompted Admiral Halsey to call him "Rock of Gibraltar." Successor: his deputy, rugged Major General Willis Henry Hale.

Died. Major William N. ("Memphis Bill") Mallory, 43, intelligence officer of the U.S. Twelfth (Tactical) Air Force, Yale's 1923 All-America fullback; in the take-off crash of a plane returning him to the U.S. for discharge (over-age); in Italy. He received the Legion of Merit last December for his famed "Operation Mallory Major," which cut 22 of 24 Po River bridges.

Died. Major General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson, 61, burly, jovial secretary and longtime military aide (since 1933) to Franklin Roosevelt; from a cerebral hemorrhage; aboard a cruiser returning with the President from the Yalta Conference (see U.S. AT WAR). His duties included combing the White House appointment list (reputedly he could make "no" sound like "yes"), fishing with the President and lending him his right arm in public (he eventually acquired a deft, left-handed salute). Said Franklin Roosevelt : "I shall miss him almost more than I can express."

Died. Julius Keller, 81, New York restaurateur (Maxim's) famed as "the father of cafe society," credited with introducing the gigolo into U.S. night life (an early employe: Rudolph Valentino); in Southampton, L.I. He once recalled firing Singer Rosa Ponselle from Maxim's, later meeting her when she was a Metropolitan prima donna and asking innocently : "Where are you working now, Rosa?"

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