Monday, Dec. 01, 1947
Married. Ann Ellen Farley, 22, younger daughter of ex-Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley; and Edward John Hickey, 25, apprentice clothier in his father's Detroit store; in Manhattan.
Married. Katharine ("Kay") Winthrop, 33, blueblooded Boston tennist (women's national indoor singles champion in 1944); and Massachusetts Sportsman Quincy A Shaw McKean, 57; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan.
Died. Lieut. Commander Frank ("Spig") Wead, U.S.N. (ret.), 52, pioneer Navy flyer (he set five speed and endurance records in the '20s), Broadway playwright (Ceiling Zero), movie scenarist (The Citadel); of pneumonia and complications; in Santa Monica, Calif. Wead decided to become a writer when his flying was ended by a crippling accident in 1926. But he wangled his way back to active duty in 1942, served aboard Pacific carriers with his neck in a steel brace.
Died. Victor Lvovich Kilbalchich (pen name: "Victor Serge"), 56, former Communist journalist, Trotskyite anti-Stalinist (Russia 20 Years After); of a heart attack; in Mexico City. A member of the Communist International's first Congress in 1919, Serge was managing editor of its official theoretical organ, Communist International. He was jailed briefly in 1928 by the GPU, exiled to Siberia in 1933, released in 1936 following a hullabaloo by Europe's leading writers.
Died. The Most Rev. James Hugh Ryan, 60, first archbishop of Omaha; of a heart attack; in Omaha. He was rector of Catholic University (1928-35), became bishop of Omaha in 1935, was elevated when the archdiocese was created in 1945.
Died. George Kolbe, 70, German sculptor whose pretty-girl nudes attracted U.S. collectors in the '30s; in Berlin. Known as "Germany's Rodin," Kolbe exhibited in many European and U.S. museums, wound up as a sculptor of Nazi folk art.
Died. James John Davis, 74, Secretary of Labor (1921-30), Republican Senator from Pennsylvania (1930-45); of uremia and a heart ailment; in Takoma Park, Md. Handsome, handshaking, Welsh-born "Puddler Jim" was a helper in an iron works at eleven, later made a fortune in investments before he entered politics. A longtime power in the Loyal Order of Moose (director general since 1906), he pushed its membership from 247 to more than 800,000, founded its two major charities (Moosehaven, Fla., for the aged; Mooseheart, Ill., for widows & orphans). In 1933 he was one of five acquitted in a Moose lottery scandal (his alleged cut: $172,300) in which three associates were convicted of conspiracy.
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