Monday, Sep. 20, 1948

Born. To Henry Benjamin ("Hank") Greenberg, 37, the Detroit Tigers' onetime home-run king, now part owner and vice president of the Cleveland Indians, and Caral Gimbel Greenberg, 32, department store heiress: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Christopher. Weight: 9 Ibs. 5 oz.

Married. Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 20, brunette medical-student granddaughter of T.R.; and Alexander G. Barmine, ex-Soviet general turned anti-Communist author (One Who Survived); she for the first time, he for the third; in Northport, N.Y., at a wedding unattended by the bride's parents.

Married. Martha Graham, 46, deadpan high priestess of the modern dance (and radio's Miss Hush of 1947); and Erick Hawkins, 39, her dancing partner; both for the first time; in Santa Fe, N.Mex.

Died. William Nissley McNair, 68, fiddle-playing onetime mayor of Pittsburgh (1933-36), whose unstatesmanlike didos made a circus of municipal affairs; of a heart attack; in St. Louis. McNair once dismissed all violators of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Act ("They had committed no crime," he said, "except competing in the rotten liquor business with Governor Pinchot"), failed in a Cromwellian move to dissolve a newly elected city council, resigned in a huff when the council balked at confirming his appointees.

Died. Rupert D'Oyly Carte, 71, millionaire owner of the world-famed D'Oyly Carte Opera Co.; in London. Son of the company's founder Richard (who brought and held together for 21 years the explosively hostile Gilbert & Sullivan collaboration, and made them the biggest money-making team in theatrical history), Rupert inherited his father's flair for show business and real estate, held controlling interests in London's Savoy, Berkeley and Claridge's hotels, the Savoy Theater, Simpson's Restaurant.

Died. Mohamed Ali Jinnah, 71, Indian Moslem leader, first Governor General of Pakistan; of a heart ailment; in Karachi, Pakistan (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Hamar Greenwood, first Viscount Greenwood of Holbourne, 78, Canadian-born British industrialist, last Chief Secretary for Ireland (1920-22): in London. A tough fighter against Irish independence, Lord Greenwood employed the Black & Tans in an attempt to crush the rebellious Sinn Feiners, for years after his retirement lived in fear of assassination.

Died. Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 87, ex-Czar of Bulgaria; in Coburg, Germany (see FOREIGN NEWS).

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