Monday, Dec. 24, 1945

Married. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 33, horsy multimillionaire sportsman; and brunette Jeanne Lourdes Murray, 27, one time Stork Club pressagent, cousin of Mrs. Henry Ford II; he for the second time, she for the first; in Philadelphia.

Divorced. Maxwell Everett ("Slapsie Maxie") Rosenbloom, 39, onetime light heavyweight boxing champion, cine clown, Hollywood restaurateur ; by Muriel Faeder Rosenbloom, 26, ex-schoolteacher; after six years of marriage (no children); in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty. Exhibit A: at a swimming party, she charged, he permitted shapely Singer Patti Moore to 'disrobe before guests.

Died. Matt Kimes, 39, clam-silent No. 1 Oklahoma badman of the roaring '20s; from injuries suffered when run down by a poultry truck; in Little Rock, Ark. Lifer (for murder) Kimes had helped to rob a bank while on jail furlough, was still eluding arrest when hit.

Died. Alma Long Scott, 46, Trinidad-born mother and mentor of boogie-woogie pianist Hazel Scott, onetime music teacher and saxophonist (with Lil' Armstrong's band); of virus pneumonia; in White Plains, N.Y.

Died. General Henri Fernand Dentz, 73, 1941 defender of Vichy Syria against Gaullist and British forces; of a heart ailment; in Paris' Fresnes Prison, where he was serving a life term for treason.

(In 1940, after surrendering Paris, he tippled champagne with Nazi generals.) Of this swart, fanatical disciplinarian poilus said: if ordered to attack Dentz, Dentz would unhesitatingly have shot Dentz.

Died. Giovanni Agnelli, 79, kingpin of Italy's war industry (president of the whopping Fiat works), publisher (La Stampa); in Turin. A red-hot Fascist, Agnelli saved his skin (but not his business) when Fascism fell.

Died. Dr. Felix Emanuel Schelling, 87, University of Pennsylvania's front-ranking Elizabethan scholar (he also gave the first course in the American novel) and benign but saline wit ("Anyone can write a book, but it takes a scholar to write an article") ; in Mount Vernon, N.Y.

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