Monday, Mar. 26, 1945
Married. Emily ("Paddy") Vanderbilt, 19, handsome descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (founder of the New York Central Railroad), daughter of Captain William H. Vanderbilt, U.S.N.R. (ex-Governor of Rhode Island); and Jeptha Homer Wade III, 20, fellow senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, descendant and namesake of a founder of Western Union; in Portsmouth, R.I.
Married. Rose Bingham Fiske, 32, slender, pretty widow of Pilot Officer William Mead Lindley Fiske, champion Olympic bobsledder and first American to die flying for the R.A.F. in World War II (1940); and Lieut. Colonel John Charles Arthur Digby Lawson, 32, elder son of Sir Digby Lawson, second baronet; he for the first time, she (once the Countess of Warwick) for the third; in London.
Reported Dead. Vaslav Nijinsky, 55, prodigious ballet dancer of 30 years ago, who was pronounced incurably insane in 1919 and confined in a Swiss asylum, released, in 1940 as being well on the way to recovery but refused entry to the U.S. for further treatment; under a Nazi policy of liquidating the insane (according to Swedish report); in Budapest.
Died. Technical Sergeant Torger Tokle, 25, towheaded, Norwegian-born ski-jump champion of the Western Hemisphere (289 feet), ex-Brooklyn carpenter; from German shell-fragment wounds; near Monte Torraccio, Italy, as his loth Mountain Infantry Division made a four-mile advance.
Died. Alexander Granach, 54, Polish-born stage & screen actor (A Bell for Adano, The Seventh Cross), pre-Hitler German star; following an emergency appendectomy; in Manhattan. He once played the title role in Yiddish in the pioneer anti-Nazi play, Professor Mam-lock, for 300 performances in Poland.
Died. Louis ("Uncle Louis") Esselen, 65, tall, soft-spoken confidant and lifelong friend of the Union of South Africa's Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts, longtime secretary of Smuts's United Political Party, commissioner of the Union's state-owned railroads; from a heart attack; in Cape Town.
Died. The Rev. Dr. Burris Atkins Jenkins, 75, liberal theological maverick who ran a nondenominational Kansas City (Mo.) Community Church; onetime editor and publisher of the Kansas City Post; after long illness; in El Centre, Calif. He once advised Boy Scouts to play pool (good recreation), dance (eliminates dangerous sex manifestations), sock the other fellow (boxing is a manly art), stop expecting Dad to be a pal (he is too old to be more than a friend).
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