Monday, Apr. 14, 1947
Born. To Mexico's energetic President Miguel Aleman, 44, and Beatriz Velasco de Aleman, 36; their third child (first in 13 years), a son; by Caesarean section in a Mexico City hospital. Name: Jorge Francisco. The relieved father rushed off to Cuernavaca, shot some better-than-usual (84) golf.
Married. Richard Mifflin Kleberg, 59, lobbyist for hoof & mouth disease control among cattle, former Democratic Representative from Texas, owner of champion horse Assault, and part-owner of 1,250,000-acre King Ranch, world's largest privately owned cattle ranch; and Mamie Searcy Kleberg, 57; both for the second time (she divorced him in 1944 for mental cruelty); at his Washington hospital bedside (he suffered a heart attack three weeks ago).
Died. George Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Glucksburg, 56, King George II of the Hellenes, Prince of Denmark and Duke of Sparta, six months after his second return to the Greek throne; of a heart attack; in Athens (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Died. Stanley Grafton Mortimer, 56, socially prominent, internationally famed amateur racquets star, thrice winner of the coveted Tuxedo Gold Racquet, four times national champion, nine times national doubles champion (with Clarence C. Pell), recognized as one of the top six U.S. racquets players of all time; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Franz Seldte, 64, one-armed German soda-pop manufacturer who founded the powerful (one million members) pre-Hitler Stahlhelm veterans' group, later Nazi Minister of Labor; of dropsy, in a Nuernberg prison, where he was awaiting trial for his wartime role in the slave-labor program.
Died. Princess Louise of Saxony, 76, daughter of the last Grand Duke of Tuscany, onetime Habsburg Archduchess, whose romantic misadventures were a worldwide scandal 45 years ago; in Brussels.
Died. Henry Ford, 83, industrial dynast, Yankee mechanic who made Detroit synonymous with mass production and whose famed Model T gave the U.S. good roads, bad jokes and a new way of life; in Dearborn.
Died. Sir James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 85, fourth Marquess of Salisbury; in London. Son of Queen Victoria's famed Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, he was twice Lord Privy Seal, was noted for his two clashes with David Lloyd George (he recommended the rejection of his budget in 1909, and in 1922 headed a Conservative movement which overthrew Lloyd George's Government).
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