Monday, Aug. 22, 1949
Married. James Maitland ("Jimmy") Stewart, 41, lanky, bashful filmland Galahad (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Strait on Story), wartime Air Forces colonel and bomber group commander; and Mrs. Gloria Hatrick McLean, 31, onetime daughter-in-law of the late Evalyn Walsh ("Hope Diamond") McLean; she for the second time; in Los Angeles.
Married. Emmett McLoughlin, 42, Franciscan priest who quit the order last December when his superior insisted that he give up his post as hospital superintendent in Phoenix, Ariz. (TIME, Dec. 13); and Mary Davis, 34, medical stenographer; she for the third time; at a civil ceremony, in Buckeye, Ariz.
Married. Ward Morehouse, 50, the New York Sun's pudgy, pungent drama critic and columnist ("Broadway After Dark"); and Rebecca Franklin, 30, reporter for the Atlanta Journal; he for the fourth time; in Register, Ga.
Marriage Revealed. Walter White, 56, sparkplug of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; and Poppy Cannon, 40, brunette food-editor of Mademoiselle; he for the second time, she for the fourth; on July 6 (his Mexican divorce by Leah Gladys Powell White was announced July 7); in Manhattan.
Died. Edward Lee Thorndike, 74, since 1904 Columbia University's famed educational psychologist; of a heart ailment; in Montrose, N.Y. One of the creators of the original Army Alpha intelligence test used in World War I, he wrote more than 450 books and articles on experimental psychology and the nature of learning.
Died. Al Shean (real name: Albert Schonberg), 81, apple-cheeked, amiable comic favorite in the oldtime vaudeville team of ("Positively") Mr. Gallagher* & ("Absolutely") Mr. Shean, which wowed audiences in the '20s (they played 67 weeks in the 1923-24 Ziegfeld Follies^ made their 500-odd verses household jingles) ; in Manhattan. A veteran of 60 years in show business, German-born Al Shean first turned to legitimate theater in 1912 (he also made some 20 Hollywood films), scored his biggest Broadway hit 25 years later as the Benedictine monk in Father Malachy's Miracle.
Died. Harry Davenport, 83, silver-haired grand old man of the stage (he took his first bow at five; had his diamond jubilee as an actor in 1946); in Los Angeles. He had played everything from the Second Gravedigger in Hamlet to Broadway runs opposite Jane Cowl, before switching to Hollywood, where he acted character roles in 113 films (Gone With the Wind, Wells Fargo).
* Ed Gallagher died broke in 1929.
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