Monday, Oct. 01, 1945

Born. To Ellis Gibbs Arnall, 38, Governor of Georgia, and Mildred DeLaney Siemens Arnall, 33: their second child, first daughter; in Atlanta. Name: Alice Slemons. Weight: 8 Ibs. 7 oz. In 1942, up-&-coming Candidate Arnall promised to make the executive mansion a place "where the sound of little feet will replace the gabbing of politicians."

Born. To Frank Veloz, 39, and Yolanda Casazza Veloz, 32, famed dark-haired, dark-eyed dance team: their third child, first daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Yolanda. Weight: 7 Ibs. 9 oz

Married. Shirley Temple, 17, cinema's dimpled goldilocks who grew up to bobby-sox roles (Kiss and Tell); and Sergeant John Agar, 24, tall, handsome A.A.F. physical instructor; in Los Angeles.

Married. Joseph Wharton Lippincott, 58, tall, big-game-hunting (caribou, bear, antelope) publisher (J. B. Lippincott Co.), author of nature books for children (Chisel Tooth, the Beaver); and Virginia Jones Mathieson, 45, Philadelphia socialite ; both for the second time; in Meadowbrook, Pa.

Died. John B. Thayer III, 50, Philadelphia socialite banker, survivor of the Titanic sinking (in which his father was lost); by his own hand (slashing his wrists and throat with a razor); in Philadelphia, after year-long grief over the death of one of his two sons in the Pacific.

Died. Thomas Burke, 59, British novelist and essayist, whose most famed book, Limehouse Nights (cinemadapted into D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms'), was a lurid capitalization on his orphaned boyhood in London's dockside slums; after an operation; in London.

Died. William Buehler Seabrook, 59, explorer-author who raised readers' hair and eyebrows with his adventures among Haitian voodoo worshipers and African cannibals (The Magic Island, Jungle Ways), once detailed his stay in a mental hospital where he went to be cured of alcoholism (Asylum); by his own hand (overdose of sleeping pills--see MEDICINE); in Rhinebeck, N.Y.

Died. Albert Curtis Brown, 78, New York-born literary agent who founded Curtis Brown, Ltd. in London in 1899, developed it into an international sales agency for works of celebrated writers (Winston Churchill, John Galsworthy, H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw*); after long illness; in Whitney Point, N.Y.

*Agent Brown once wrote Shaw pointing out that on one date he had written one thing and on another a complete contradiction, to which Shaw replied, on a postcard: "My Dear C.B.: How old are you? G.B.S."

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