Monday, May. 09, 1949

Married. Nancy Marie Whitney, 22, daughter of Under Secretary of Commerce Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and stepdaughter of ECA Ambassador W. Averell Harriman; and Edwin Dennison Morgan Jr., 28, working as copy boy on the New York Herald Tribune; in Arden, N.Y.

Married. Dom Joao de Orleans e Braganc,a, 33, great-grandson of Brazil's last emperor, now a captain in the Brazilian air force; and Princess Fatima, 26, sister-in-law of Egypt's King Farouk; she for the second time; in Sintra, Portugal.

Married. Francis X. (for Xavier) Shields, 38, No. 1 ranking U.S. tennis player in 1933 and onetime Davis Cupper (1934); and Katharine Mortimer Biddle, 26, Manhattan socialite; he for the third time, she for the second; in Manhattan.

Divorced. By Osa Johnson Getts, 55, explorer and big-game hunter (with her late husband Martin Johnson) and author (I Married Adventure, 1940): Clark Hallan Getts, 56, her onetime manager; after ten years of marriage; in Chicago.

Died. Aurora Aragon Quezon, 61, widow of the first President of the Philippines; of bullet wounds (her motorcade was ambushed by Filipino outlaws); in Nueva Ecija Province, P.I. (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Frederic Collin Walcott, 80, onetime Republican Senator from Connecticut (1929-35); after long illness; in Stamford, Conn. A longtime friend of Herbert Hoover (he was Hoover's aide in the World War I European food relief program) and an ardent wildlife conservationist (he authored the federal duck stamp bill to finance conservation measures), Senator Walcott helped write the law which set up the RFC (1932).

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