Monday, Mar. 03, 1947
Married. The Hon. Felicity Anne. Wavell, 25, second daughter of Field Marshal Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India, and Captain Peter Maitland Longmore, 25; in a lavish Lenten ceremony attended by eight maharajas, nine members of the Interim Government; on the day of the announcement of Viscount Wavell's replacement by Viscount Mountbatten (see FOREIGN NEWS); in New Delhi.
Died. Julian Street, 67, novelist (Rita Coventry) and short-story writer, epicure (Where Paris Dines), close friend and collaborator (Country Cousin) of the late Booth Tarkington; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Lakeville, Conn.
Died. Princess Chevikiar Ibrahim*,72, great-granddaughter of Mohamed Ali (founder of Egypt's modern royal dynasty), cousin of King Farouk and first wife of his father (the late King Fuad, whom she divorced while he was still Crown Prince), grande dame of Cairo society, authoress, philanthropist, five-times-married suffragist leader; in Cairo.
Died. Dr. George Madison Priest, 74, bearded, longtime (46 years) member of Princeton's faculty, professor emeritus of Germanic languages and literature, noted translator (Goethe's Faust); in Princeton. Known to generations of Princeton undergraduates for his nickname ("Judas Priest"), his gentle good humor and his rumpled tweeds, he was one of the original preceptors (tutors) appointed by Woodrow Wilson.
Died. Harry Kendall Thaw, 76, multimillionaire turn-of-the-century playboy whose murder of famed Architect Stanford White over Evelyn Nesbit in 1906 was the granddaddy of all tabloid sensations; of coronary thrombosis; in Miami Beach. Eccentric girl-chaser Thaw put three bullets in White at a Manhattan roof garden for the alleged seduction, before Thaw had married her, of ex-Floradora Girl Evelyn.
Died. Grace Livingston Hill, 81, indefatigable, ' hugely successful author (79 novels; total sales: 4,000,000 copies) of pleasant, religion-flavored morality tales; while working on her 80th book; in Swarthmore, Pa.
Died. Matthew Phipps Shiel, 81, Irish-descended, West Indies-born British novelist, writer of many a florid, adventurous novel, onetime (1887) "King Philip I" of tiny, one-square-mile Redonda, one of the, Leeward Islands (until the British Government moved in, ending his three-year "reign"); in Chichester, England.
-Second member of Egypt's royal family to die within a week. Her cousin, Princess Amina Bahruz Fadel, 61, was killed two days earlier in a plane crash off Terracina, Italy.
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