Monday, Apr. 28, 1947
Married. Countess Victoria Calvi di Bergolo, 19, tall, brunette niece of ex-King Umberto of Italy; and 28-year-old Count Guglielmo Guarienti di Brezone, member of an old Verona family; in Alexandria, Egypt. The ceremony, brightened by royal relatives--including Umberto and the bride's grandfather, ex-King Victor Emmanuel--was somewhat marred by an unfulfilled threat (presumably by a few local Italian republicans) to bomb the church.
Married. The Hon. Richard Frederick Wood, 26, son of the Earl of Halifax, Britain's wartime Ambassador to the U.S.; and Diana Kellett, 20; in London. During the British Eighth Army's North African campaign, the bridegroom lost both legs.
Married. Princess Catherine of Greece, 33, pretty, youngest sister of new King Paul; and Major Richard Brandram, 35, handsome, sporting British artilleryman; both for the first time; on the day her brother mounted the throne; in Athens.
Died. Charles H. Treat, 47, onetime (1922) All-America Princeton tackle whose robust health was ravaged by incurable tuberculosis; from a presumably suicidal fall from a ninth-floor hotel window; in Kansas City.
Died. Dr. C. Louis Leipoldt, 66, South African poet, physician, surgeon and gourmet (he relished lion meat, and recommended that babies imbibe wine rather than milk*); of a heart attack; in Capetown.
Died. Christian X, 76, King of Denmark (and until 1944, Iceland), the Wends and the Goths; of a heart ailment; in Copenhagen. The beloved monarch, Europe's tallest (6 ft. 6 in.--"I know I am too long"), remained in his little country during the war, a virtual prisoner of the occupying Germans, with whom he was coldly, contemptuously uncooperative.
Died. Herbert Spencer Jennings, 79, famed zoologist and geneticist who spent years (at Johns Hopkins, and the University of California at Los Angeles) studying the lives & loves of the hairy, green, one-celled Paramecium bursaria, in search of clues to the mysteries of more complex animals; after long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif.
Died. Simon I. Patino, 86, Bolivian tin king whose whopping fortune (estimate: $300-$500 million) got bigger almost every time a housewife opened a tin can; in Buenos Aires (see LATIN AMERICA).
* One of Leipoldt's bibbing babies, sturdy five-year-old Rodney Whitley, considered going on the wagon last week. The Natal Coast boy, who had been drinking for four years (he is allergic to milk), and last year pulled through a polio attack on a diluted wine diet, is tiring of the drink.
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