Monday, Jul. 09, 1945
Born. To Lieut. Thomas Dudley Har mon, A.A.F.. 25, survivor of two plane crashes, hero of one movie (Harmon of Michigan}, one book (Pilots Also Pray}, many a Michigan football game (All-America, 1939, 1940); and Elyse Knox. 27, blonde screen starlet: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Sharon Kristan. Weight: 7 lbs.
Born. To Constance Morrow Morgan, 30, round-faced youngest daughter of the late U.S. Senator and Ambassador to Mexico Dwight W. Morrow, sister of Mrs.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh; and Aubrey Niel Morgan, 40, once her brother-in-law (widower of her late sister, Elizabeth) : their third child, first son; in Manhattan.
Weight: 7 Ibs. 14 oz.
Married. Merle Oberon. 34, nacreous, slant-eyed cinemactress ; and Lucien Keith Ballard, 37, Hollywood cameraman; both for the second time; by double, proxy in Juarez, Mexico.
Married. Russel McKinley Crouse, 52, waggish teammate of Howard Lindsay in playwriting and producing (Life with Father, Arsenic and Old Lace); and Anna Erskine, 29, theatrical production assistant (Lindsay & Crouse), only daughter of Author John Erskine; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan.
Divorced. David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty, 40, Navy Commander, eldest son of Britain's late World War I Grand Fleet commander, grandson of Chicago's late Merchant Marshall Field; by Countess Beatty, Virginia-born, thrice-married Dorothy Power Hall Sands Beatty, 42; after eight years of marriage (no children); in London. Grounds: adultery.
Divorced. Commander George Howard Earle 3rd, 54, wealthy Philadelphia Main Liner, onetime New Dealing Governor of Pennsylvania and U.S. Minister to Austria and Bulgaria; by Huberta Potter Earle, 48, handsome, Kentucky-born socialite; after 29 years of marriage (four sons); in Norristown, Pa.
Died. Erno Rapee, 55, musical director of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, collaborator in the late Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel's campaign to put symphony orchestras into cinemansions, onetime musical director for Warner Brothers and NBC; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Emil Hacha, 73, collaborationist President of Czechoslovakia after the Nazi-forced resignation of Edward Benes in 1938, puppet president of the Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia during the German occupation, No. I on the Czech list of accused traitors; in a Prague prison hospital.
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