Monday, Jul. 14, 1947
Married. Maria Elizabeth Sieber, 22, plumpish actress daughter of svelte Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich; and William Riva, 27, Manhattan artist; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan.
Married. Virginia Mayo, 26, wide-eyed blonde cinemactress (The Best Years of Our Lives); and Michael O'Shea, 41, brawny sideshow barker turned cinemactor (Jack London); she for the first time, he for the second; in Glendale, Calif.
Married. Joan Blondell, 37, full-blown, blonde cinemactress; and Michael Todd, 40, Hollywood and Broadway producer (Up in Central Park); she for the third time (her No. 2: Cinemactor Dick Powell), he for the second; in Las Vegas, Nev.
Married. Carol Hohenzollern, 53, exiled King (Carol II) of Rumania; and Elena (Magda) Lupescu, 50, his mistress of 23 years; in an "in extremis" ceremony at her Rio de Janeiro bedside where she was thought to be dying of pernicious anemia (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Divorced. Marshall Field IV, 31, who is learning to be a journalist on his father's Chicago Sun; by Joanne Bass Field, 31, daughter of New Hampshire's onetime Governor Robert P. Bass; after nine years, two children; in Manchester, N.H.
Died. Margaret ("Marge") Hurlburt, 32, onetime Ohio schoolteacher and wartime WASP who last March piloted a Navy Corsair fighter to a women's international speed record (337.635 m.p.h.); when her plane crashed while stunting in a July 4 air show; in Decorah, Iowa.
Died. Elizabeth Skinner Ives, 49, wife of New York's freshman G.O.P. Senator Irving Ives; after long illness; in Bainbridge, N.Y.
Died. Otis William Caldwell, 77, retired education expert (at the University of Chicago and Columbia's Teachers College), author of science and biology textbooks in which he entertainingly debunked old saws (i.e., ostriches hide by burying their heads in the sand; a snake's tail never dies until sundown); in New Milford, Conn.
Died. Richard Robert Wright,* 92, slave boy who grew up to be the top U.S. Negro banker, president of Georgia State Industrial College, a U.S. Army major in the Spanish-American War, and friend of every U.S. President since Hayes; in Philadelphia. Spry, spare Wright was founder and active head of Philadelphia's Citizens & Southern Bank & Trust Co. vengefully named after a Georgia bank that had once insulted his daughter.
* No kin to Richard Wright, author of Native Son.
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