Monday, Sep. 26, 1949

Married. Maida Heatter, 33, daughter of schmalzy Radioracle Gabriel Heatter; and Ellis A. Gimbel Jr., fiftyish, Manhattan broker, member of the Gimbel department store clan; both for the second time; in Freeport, N.Y.

Marriage Revealed. Margaret Hastings, 34, wartime WAC corporal who was beloved of the tabloids in 1945 when she and two G.I.s were stranded for 47 days in a remote New Guinea valley after their plane had crashed; and Robert Atkinson, 29, insurance salesman; he for the second time; on June 24; in Forestville, Md.

Marriage Revealed. George Huntington Hartford II, 38, A. & P.* chain store heir (and grandson of the founder); and Marjorie Sue Steele, 19, onetime nightclub cigarette girl; he for the second time; on Sept. 10; in Gardnerville, Nev.

Divorced. By Mary Ellin Berlin Burden, 22, brunette daughter of Songwriter Irving Berlin and Postal Telegraph Heiress-Novelist Ellin Mackay (Lace Curtain) Berlin: Socialite Dennis Sheedy Burden, 29; after 14 months of marriage, no children; in Reno.

Died. Ernie ("Tiny") Bonham, 36, Pittsburgh Pirates' pitcher and onetime mainstay (1940-46) of the pennant-winning New York Yankees; after an operation; in Pittsburgh.

Died. Frank Morgan (real name: Francis Philip Wuppermannf), 59, veteran cinemactor; of cerebral thrombosis; in Los Angeles. A onetime vaudevillean and Broadway star (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1926; Topaze, 1930), Morgan was equally adept at straight character roles (the pirate in Tortilla Flat, the coach in The Stratton Story) or at his specialty: the ineffectual, fatuous old party who was alternately a garrulous liar and a gabby lecher.

Died. William Jacob ("Will") Cuppy, 65, Indiana-born book critic (New York Herald Tribune) and humorist (How to Be a Hermit, 1929; How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes, 1931; How to Become Extinct, 1941); after long illness; in Manhattan.

Died. August Krogh, 74, Danish-born scientist, winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology (he discovered the regulation of the motor mechanism of capillaries, took motion pictures of blood cells flowing through the capillaries of living tissue); of cancer; in Copenhagen.

-For other news of A. & P., see BUSINESS. f He was once a vice president (his late parents were the heads) of Angostura-Wuppermann Corp., U.S. sales agents for Angostura Bitters.

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