Monday, Apr. 07, 1947
Married. Ellsworth ("Sonny") Wisecarver, 17, tabloid-trumpeted wolf cub, who at 14 ran off with an unmarried mother seven years his senior ("You take Sinatra . . . I'll take Sonny"), ran off again at 16 with another matron of 25 ("an interlude of golden ecstasy"); and Betty Zoe Reber, 17, a plump, Mormon high-school girl; he for the second time, she for the first; in St. George, Utah.
Married. Richard E. Byrd, 24, son of Senator Harry Byrd, nephew and namesake of the homecoming Admiral; and Helen Bradshaw, 24, blueblooded Boston descendant of famed Secretary of State James G. Elaine; both for the first time; in Washington.
Married. Zinka Milanov, 40, Yugoslav-born Metropolitan Opera soprano; and Major General Lyubomir Ilic, 42, Yugoslav officer and diplomat, a commander in the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, general in the French Resistance Army in World War II, close friend of Marshal Tito; at the Yugoslav Embassy; in Washington.
Divorced. By Gail Patrick, 34, deadpan cinemadventuress and onetime Panther Woman: Arnold Dean White, 34, toy manufacturer; after 2 1/2 years of marriage, one of separation; in Los Angeles.
Divorced. Jack Teagarden, 42, veteran trombonist of the pre-swing, Bix Beiderbecke era of jazz; by his second wife, Adeline Barriere Teagarden, 32; after four years; in Los Angeles.
Divorced. By Una Merkel, 43, honey-voiced Southern perennial of stage & screen: Ronald Burla, 40, aviation executive; after 15 years, no children; in Miami.
Divorced. Conrad Nagel, 50, blond-toupeed, cinemacting veteran; by his second wife, Lynn Marrick Nagel, 24, Hollywood starlet; after 15 months; in Los Angeles.
Died. John Joseph ("Johnny") Evers, 65, one of baseball's immortals, crafty second baseman of the championship Chicago Cubs of 40 years ago, pivot man in the famed Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance double-play combination;* of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Albany.
Died. Sir Norman Mcleod Buchan, 84, 18th Earl of Caithness, head of the ancient Highland family that once controlled northern Scotland/- and the Orkney Isles; in Castle Auchmacoy, Scotland.
* Frank Chance died in 1924. Joe Tinker, last survivor of the famous threesome, is in Florida, recovering from a leg amputation.
/-An invasion of the Caithness estates by the Campbells in the 1670s is one of several possible origins of the legend-shrouded song, The Camp bells Are Comin'.
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