Monday, Feb. 28, 1949
Born. To Dorothy McGuire, 31, heart-faced cinemactress (Claudia, Gentleman's Agreement), and John Swope, 39, professional photographer and son of onetime General Electric President Gerard Swope: their first child, a daughter, in Ossining, N.Y. Name: Mary Hackett. Weight: 9 Ibs. 10 1/2 oz.
Born. To Joseph Pasternak, 47, Hungarian-born cinemusical producer (Three Smart Girls, Anchors Aweigh), and Dorothy Darrell Pasternak, 28: their third child, third son; in Los Angeles. Name: Peter. Weight: 6 Ibs. 3 oz.
Married. Archduchess Agnes Christine of Habsburg, 20, great-granddaughter of Austria's late Emperor Franz Josef; and Prince Karl Alfred, 38, brother of Franz Josef II, reigning prince of Liechtenstein; in Castle Persenbeug, Austria.
Divorced. Joe Louis, 34, world's heavyweight champion; by Marva Trotter Louis, 33, onetime Chicago stenographer; after twelve years of marriage (they were divorced in 1945, remarried a year later), two children; in Jojutla, Mexico.
Divorced. Francis X. (for Xavier) Shields, 38, former No. i ranking U.S. tennis player (during the '305) and Davis Cupper (1934); by Donna Marina Torlonia Shields, 32, daughter of the late Prince Torlonia of Italy; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Reno.
Divorced. Hugh ("Woo-Woo") Herbert, 60, flutter-fingered cinema comic; by Rose Herbert, 56, onetime vaudeville actress; after 28 years of marriage, no children; in Fort Worth.
Died. Henri Verne, 68, longtime director of Paris' famed Louvre, who proved that the Mona Lisa, which was recovered after the 1911 theft, was Leonardo Da Vinci's and not one faked by the thief; in Paris. Verne directed the renovation of the museum during the '305, planned the evacuation of the art treasures during World War II.
Died. Niceto Alcala Zamora y Torres, 71, first President of the second Spanish Republic (1931-36); after long illness; in Buenos Aires. A Monarchist turned Republican, Alcala Zamora became President after a bloodless revolution in 1931, was himself kicked out of office by leftists three months before the outbreak of civil war in 1936, was finally exiled by Franco in 1941.
Died. Bailey Willis, 91, Stanford University's longtime (since 1915) professor of geology, explorer and world-famed seismologist who was credited with predicting Santa Barbara's disastrous earthquake of 1925; after short illness; in Palo Alto, Calif.
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