Monday, May. 17, 1948

Born. To Kenny Delmar (real name: Kenneth Frederick Fay Howard), 36, radio's Klaxon-voiced "Senator Claghorn," and Alice Cochran Howard, 32, onetime ballet dancer: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: John Davies. Weight: 7 Ibs. 15 oz.

Married. Diana Wanger, 19, willowy, blonde-daughter of erstwhile blonde Cinemactress Joan Bennett (by her first husband; adopted by her third, Producer Walter Wanger) ; and John Hardy Anderson, 30, airplane-parts manufacturer; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Married. James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, 39, governor of Alabama; and Jamelle Moore, 21, secretary in the State Highway Department; in Rockford, Ala. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Married. Hans Kindler, 55, founder and conductor of Washington's 17-year-old National Symphony Orchestra; and Persis Myers Hill, 37, symphony-loving socialite; each for the second time; in Kensington, Md.

Died. U Saw, 47, dapper, wily onetime Premier of Burma (1940-41); by execution (hanging); in Insein, Burma. A leader of the independence movement, he was interned by the British in 1942 for collaboration with the Japanese. Freed in 1946, he lost out to Premier Aung San in the postwar political roughhouse, retaliated last July with an attempted coup and Aung San's assassination.

Died. Erskine Gwynne, 49, dilettante Paris publisher of the expatriate era; after long illness; in Manhattan. A great-nephew of the late Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, he brought out the Paris Boulevardier in 1927, attracted to the magazine such contributors as Michael Arlen, Noel Coward, Ernest Hemingway.

Died. Arthur Ault, 75, portly, plain-spoken editor of the Lamar, Mo., Democrat; of a heart ailment; in Lamar. He fattened his national reputation (TIME, July 8, 1946) with such unlarded local reporting as "George Phillips is back in the Barton County jail . . . drunk as a lord . . ."

Died. Viola Allen, 78, turn-of-the-century stage favorite; in Manhattan. She made a hit in Shakespeare in the '80s, eventually played in almost everything, was a Charles Frohman stock company star and leading lady to Joseph Jefferson, retired in 1918 at the height of her popularity.

Died. Kate La Montagne Butler, 82, widow of Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler (who died last December); after long illness; in Manhattan.

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