Monday, Jun. 28, 1948

Born. To Francis Albert ("The Voice") Sinatra, 30, crooner, and Nancy Barbato Sinatra, 28: their third child, second daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Christina. Weight: 8 Ibs. 14 oz.

Married. Marie Spaak, 23, slim daughter of Belgium's rotund Premier Paul-Henri Spaak; and Arthur Palliser, 26, British Foreign Office Secretary; in Saint Gilles, Belgium.

Married. Jose Ferrer, 36, actor-producer (Othello, Cyrano de Bergerac); and Phyllis Hill, 27, blonde Broadway actress (Angel Street, Cyrano de Bergerac); four days after his Mexican divorce from blonde Broadway Actress Uta Hagen (Angel Street, Othello) ; she for the first time, he for the second; in Greenwich, Conn.

Married. Mary Elizabeth Altemus ("Liz") Whitney, 42, hell-for-leather socialite horsewoman; and Dr. E. Cooper Person Jr., 38, surgery professor; she for the second time (her first: Millionaire Horseman John Hay--"Jock"-- Whitney, now married to Betsey Cushing Roosevelt), he for the first; in Upperville, Va.

Killed. Earl Carroll, 55, gaunt, gaudy Broadway writer-producer (So Long Letty, White Cargo, Vanities), latter-day Hollywood nightclub owner; in an airplane crash; near Mt. Carmel, Pa. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Carroll got his start as a lyricist for the late Enrico Caruso, went on to produce 15 editions of his Vanities, two Sketch Books. He declared bankruptcy in 1936, two years later opened his colossal nightclub.

Died. Basil Harris, 58, board chairman of the U.S. Lines; of cancer; in Manhattan. He became a partner (with the late Kermit Roosevelt) in the Roosevelt Steamship Co. in 1923, joined the U.S. Lines as vice president in 1931, served in 1939-40 as Commissioner of Customs and assistant to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau.

Died. Alvah Curtis Roebuck, 84, co-founder of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; in Chicago. Roebuck organized the mail-order business with Richard W. Sears in 1887, sold out for about $20,000 in 1895, spent 45 years in & out of the firm. His stock answer to people who compared his poverty with his ex-partner's wealth: "He's dead. Me, I never felt better."

Died. Dr. Rufus Matthew Jones, 85, Quaker patriarch co-founder and chairman of the American Friends Service Committee from 1917 to 1928; in Haverford, Pa. Longtime philosophy professor at Haverford College (1904-34), he directed the spending of $25 million for relief after World War I; later, as chairman of European relief, helped care for war orphans in Spain and Jews in Germany.

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