Monday, Oct. 04, 1948
Born. To Jane Withers, 22, onetime No. 1 cinemoppet, and William Moss, 27, film producer: their first child, a daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Wendy Leigh. Weight: 8 lbs. 8 oz.
Born. To Lieut. Philippe Henri Xavier Antoine de Gaulle, 27, only son of General de Gaulle, wartime Free French naval air ace, and Henriette Marie Josephe Clemence de Montalembert de Gaulle, 20, daughter of one of France's first families: their first child, a son (the General's first grandchild); in Dijon. Name: Charles.
Died. Stanley Mauldin,* 27, star tackle of the National Football League's champion Chicago Cardinals, onetime Texas University All-American (1942); of a heart attack after a game against the Philadelphia Eagles; in Chicago.
Died. Warren William (Krech), 53, stage & screen actor; of cancer of the bone marrow; in Los Angeles. An immediate success in the early talkies, he specialized at playing sophisticated villains and cultured detectives.
Died. Prince Adalbert Ferdinand Berengar Victor of Prussia, 64, boorish third ("Sailor Boy") son of Kaiser Wilhelm II,/- noted in his youth for love affairs, bad manners, and the fact that he spent much of World War I as a naval officer luxuriating in Bruges, Belgium; of a heart ailment; in Montreux, Switzerland.
Died. E. Eastman ("Deac") Irvine, 65, folksy editor of the World Almanac, who built a successful journalistic career on the conviction that all newspaper readers are just like the folks in his home town (La Crosse, Wis.); of a heart attack: in Staten Island, N.Y.
Died. Sir (Norman Fenwick) Warren Fisher, 69, Britain's retired Permanent Secretary of the Treasury and Head of the Civil Service (1919-39); in London. Fisher was criticized for being an unconventional administrator, but he helped to modernize Britain's civil service.
Died. Charles Henry Ingersoll, 82, co-founder of the Ingersoll watch company ("the watch that made the dollar famous"); from injuries when he was hit by an automobile; in West Orange, NJ. Ingersoll and his brother Robert turned out their first dollar watch in 1892, made about 100 million of them before they went bankrupt and their assets were sold to the Waterbury Clock Co. for $1,500,000 in 1922.
*No kin to Cartoonist Bill (Willie & Joe) Mauldin.
/- The Kaiser's other children: Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince Eitel Friedrich (died 1942), Prince August Wilhelm, Prince Oskar, Prince Joachim (died 1920) and Princess Victoria Louise.
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