Monday, Jun. 14, 1948

Born. To Gustav George ("Gus") Lesnevich, 33, light-heavyweight boxing champion (since August 1941--a record), and Georgianna Dobson Lesnevich, 26, onetime model: their third and fourth children, twin daughters; in Englewood, N.J. Names: Georgia Alice, Jill Linda. Weights: 5 Ibs. 10 1/2 oz., 5 Ibs. 6 oz.

Divorced. Vincent Price, 37, Broadway leading man (Victoria Regina, Angel Street) turned silky cinemenace (Laura, The Long Night); by Edith Barrett Williams Price, fortyish, retired stage actress; after ten years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Princess Henrietta Guerard Pignatelli, sixtyish, Bluffton, S.C. shopkeeper's daughter who became one of the wealthiest women in the U.S. by marrying a grocery fortune (A. & P.'s Edward V. Hartford, who left her $200 million when he died in 1922) and then became a princess by marrying Prince Guido Pignatelli in 1937; after long illness; in Wyckoff, NJ.

Died. Theodor Morell, 62, Hitler's personal physician; of double pneumonia; at Tegern See, Bavaria. A high-pressure quack who had been a VD expert for Berlin's whores, he made a fortune out of his relationship with the Fuehrer, pumped vast amounts of narcotics, stimulants, aphrodisiacs and plain colored water into his boss, undermined his resistance, helped speed the physical breakdown which nearly crippled Hitler during the last days of the Third Reich.

Died. Harry Twyford Peters, 66, coal merchant, latter-day popularizer of Currier & Ives, owner of the world's largest (5,000) collection of their prints; after long illness; in Manhattan. Collector Peters, also a fancier of horses & hounds, was Master of Fox Hounds at Long Island's famed Meadow Brook Club and U.S. dean of M.F.H.s when he retired in 1946.

Died. Louis Lumiere, 83, wealthy motion-picture and color-photography pioneer, whom (with his brother Auguste) Europeans generally credit with inventing the cinema; of a heart ailment; in Bandol, France.

Died. Charles Williams Nash, 84, hardheaded, rags-to-riches automaker; of a heart ailment; in Beverly Hills, Calif. An unschooled farm boy who called himself the "most common cuss in the world," he rose from upholstery stuffer to general superintendent of a Michigan carriage company, turned to automaking in 1910 with William Durant (organizer of General Motors). He was made president of G.M. in 1912, four years later left to go on his own, finally retired from active management of Nash when it merged with Kelvinator in 1937.

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