Monday, Jun. 03, 1946
Married. Captain Louis Zamperini, 29, onetime University of Southern California track star, 1936 Olympic miler, wartime Army Air Corps bombardier who survived 47 days on a life raft and 27 torture-filled months in a Japanese prison camp (TIME, Sept. 17); and Cynthia Applewhite, 20, of Miami Beach, Fla.; in Los Angeles.
Divorced. By William Henry ("Bill") Mauldin, 24, cartoonist father of Willie & Joe, whose weary, leary faces typified all U.S. fighting men and won him a Pulitzer Prize: Norma Jean Mauldin, 22; after four years of marriage, one son; in Los Angeles.
Died. Primula Rollo Niven, 28, pretty ex-WAAF war bride of British Cinemactor David Niven (who met her in a slit trench during an air raid); of a head injury (suffered in a tumble down unlighted stairs); in Hollywood.
Died. Captain Norman Mickey ("Bus") Miller, 38, the Navy's legendary one-man aerial task force, most decorated Navy flyer of World War II; of tuberculosis; in Corona, Calif. A hard-bitten combat pilot, he took his battle-scarred Liberator bomber, Thunder Mug, into Truk time & again at mast top level, sank or damaged more than 60 Jap vessels.
Died. Joseph Medill Patterson, 67, publisher of New York's whopping tabloid Daily News, cousin of Colonel "Bertie" McCormick (Chicago Tribune) and brother of "Cissie" Patterson (Washington Times-Herald); of a liver ailment; in Manhattan (see PRESS).
Died. Dr. Patty Smith Hill, 78, pioneer in progressive nursery-school and kindergarten education, professor emeritus of education at Columbia University, composer (with her sister in 1893) of Good Morning to All,* which the U.S. sings as Happy Birthday to You; in Manhattan.
Died. Eva Roberts Cromwell Stotesbury, 81, old-school grande dame, whose parties (often more than 300 guests) paced Palm Beach society for more than two decades, widow of Philadelphia Financier Edward Townsend Stotesbury, doting mother of politically ambitious James Henry Roberts Cromwell; of coronary thrombosis; in Palm Beach.
Died. Ernest Rhys (rhymes with lease), 86, bewhiskered British poet and essayist, creator of the famed Everyman's Library, which gave the common man cheap editions of Homer, Aristotle, Mark Twain and some 500 other authors; in London.
*Good morning to you,
Good morning to you,
Good morning, dear children,
Good morning to all.
Copyright 1935 by Clayton F. Summy Co.
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