Monday, Sep. 09, 1946
Born. To Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik, 47, and Crown Princess Ingrid, 36: their third daughter (none of them can succeed to the Danish throne); in Copenhagen. Weight: 3,200 grams (7 lbs. 1 oz.).
Married. John Conrad Russell, Viscount Amberley, 24, son of Bertrand Russell, Britain's Socialist philosopher-earl and mathematician; and Susan Doniphan Lindsay, 20, daughter of the late U.S. poet Vachel Lindsay; in Washington.
Divorced. Gardner ("Mike") Cowles Jr., 43, president-publisher of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, founder-publisher of Look; by Lois Thornburg Cowles, 37; after 13 years, two children; in Des Moines.
Died. James Butler Dillingham, 32, wartime Marine captain, assistant to the publisher of LIFE; after long illness; in Manhattan.
Died. John Steuart Curry, 48, lusty realistic painter of harvests, storms, Big Top performers and legendary heroes, whose most praised picture, the John Brown mural in Topeka, Kans., he never signed; best of the famed Midwestern triumvirate which included Artists Thomas Benton and the late Grant Wood; of a heart attack; in Madison, Wis.
Died. Adolphus Busch III, 55, fourth in line of the great beer-barrel dynasty, president of Anheuser-Busch, multi-million-dollar brewers of Budweiser; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in St. Louis.
Died. Dr. William Henry Joseph Walker, 67, pudgy elder brother of New York City's ex-Mayor Jimmie Walker, who as physician for the New York State Athletic Commission listened to the heartbeat of every big-time boxer in the last quarter century; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan.
Died. Mrs. John Wallace Riddle, 77, self-educated architect, second woman member of the American Institute of Architects, founder-designer of the famed ivy-covered Avon Old Farms School in Avon, Conn., widow of the onetime U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Argentina; of uremic poisoning; in Farmington, Conn.
Died. Frank Seaman Dymoke, 84, hereditary King's Champion,* whose family has held the office since 1377 and who himself bore the standard of England at the coronations of Edward VII, George V and George VI; in London.
*Traditionally the King's Champion rode on horseback into the coronation banquet hall, flung down a gauntlet, challenged anyone to challenge the new king's right to the throne. No one ever has. The ceremony was last enacted at the coronation of William IV in 1830.
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