Monday, Nov. 29, 1948

Born. To Gene Tierney Cassini, 28, cinemactress (The Razor's Edge) and Oleg Loiewski-Cassini, 35, Manhattan dress designer: their second child, second daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Christina. Weight: 6 lbs.

Born. To James Henry Roberts ("Jimmy") Cromwell, 52, playboy first husband of Doris Duke, short-time U.S. Minister to Canada, and third wife Maxine MacFetridge Cromwell, 37: their first child (his second), a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Maxine. Weight: 5 lbs. 12 oz.

Divorced. By Farouk I, King of Egypt, 28: Farida, Queen of Egypt, 27; after nearly eleven years of marriage, three daughters; in Cairo (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Divorced. By Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Persia, 29: Empress Fawzia, 27, beautiful sister of Egypt's King Farouk; after nine years of marriage, one daughter; in Teheran (see FOREIGN NEWS). Fawzia's secret Egyptian divorce of three years ago was not recognized in Iran.

Died. Rear Admiral Richard George Voge, U.S.N. (ret.), 44, top wartime submarine commander, who won the Navy Cross in 1942 while skipper of the Sailfish (formerly the Squalus, which sank off Portsmouth, N.H. in 1939 and was later salvaged); of coronary thrombosis; in Port Chester, N.Y.

Died. Dr. Harry Morgan Ayres, 67, director of Columbia University's School of General Studies (adult education), longtime English professor and Chaucer scholar; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan.

Died. Dr. Samuel Torrey Orton, 69, psychiatrist and neurologist (president of the American Psychiatric Association, 1927-28), authority on speech and reading disabilities (his theory on strephosymbolia --reading backwards and twisting symbols--revolutionized the teaching of left-handed children); of complications following a fall; in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Died. Dr. Frederick Gardner Cottrell, 71, California-born chemist and inventor (Cottrell Electrical Precipitator); of a heart ailment; in Berkeley, Calif. Dr. Cottrell founded the famed Research Corporation in 1912 as a nonprofit organization for the advancement of science, authorized it to spend the entire $3,500,000 grossed by his invention.

Died. Florence Prag Kahn, 82, wisecracking, longtime Republican Congresswoman from San Francisco (1925-37); after long illness; in San Francisco. Mrs. Kahn was the first woman member of the House Appropriations and Military Affairs Committees.

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