Monday, Feb. 17, 1947

Born. To Robert Browne Wallace, 28, lanky son of Editor Henry Agard Wallace, and Gordon Grosvenor Wallace, 28: their first child (Henry Wallace's second grandchild), a daughter; in Philadelphia. Name: Allaire. Weight: 7 Ibs. 15 oz.

Born. To Alan Ladd Jr., 33, green-eyed cinema tough guy, and Sue Carol Ladd, 38, actor's agent, onetime star: their second child, first son; in Hollywood. Name: undecided. Weight: 8 Ibs. 6 oz.

Married. The Duke of Westminster, 67, one of Britain's richest noblemen; and Ann Sullivan, 23, daughter of a Jersey* general; he for the fourth time, she for the first; near Chester, England.

Died. Georges Gonneau, 50, famed chef; of leukemia; in Manhattan. His chef-d'oeuvre: breast of pheasant, simmered with juniper berries, truffle essence and old Calvados brandy; fresh chestnuts nested in green artichoke hearts; individual timbale of baked chip potatoes.

Died. Hans Fallada (real name: Rudolf Ditzen), 53, German novelist, author of the 1933 international bestseller, Little Man, What Now?; while reading final proofs on his last book, Every Man Dies Alone; of thrombosis; in Berlin.

Died. Ellen Wilkinson, 55, diminutive, dynamic British Minister of Education, long a leading Laborite; of a heart ailment; in London (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Oliver Max Gardner, 64, newly appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James'5; onetime governor of North Carolina, onetime Under Secretary of the U.S. Treasury; of thrombosis; on the day he was to have sailed for England to begin his new job; in Manhattan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Lieut. General Sir Sajjan Singhji, 67, Maharaja of Ratlam, small (693 square miles) Indian state, internationally known poloist; in Bombay.

Died. The Duke of Manchester, 69, jolly, roly-poly, spectacularly spendthrift British peer, 18th in rank of Britain's 26 nonroyal dukes, veteran of many a day in court (three bankruptcy trials), several in jail (for fraud: he was convicted, later acquitted of pawning his mother's jewels); in Seaford, England.

Died. General Franz Xaver Ritter von Epp, 78, frozen-faced Hitler henchman, chief of the Nazi "Colonial League" (agitators for return of Germany's pre-1914 colonies), Governor of Bavaria; briefly defender of Munich in World War II; in Munich.

* The Channel Island, not the Hague-famed U.S. state.

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