Monday, May. 22, 1950
Born. To Chief Seretse Khama, 28, tribal ruler of the Bamangwato in the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Africa, ordered by the British into a five-year exile for marrying a white woman in 1948, and his Queen, Ruth Khama, 26, former London stenographer: their first child, a girl; in Serowe, Bechuanaland. Name: Jacqueline. Weight: 7 lbs. 2 oz.
Married. Marshall Field Jr., 33, son of multi-millionaire Publisher Marshall Field, assistant publisher and associate editor of his father's Chicago Sun-Times; and Katherine Woodruff, 22, daughter of an Illinois banker; he for the second time, she for the first; in Joliet, Ill.
Married. Eugene Ormandy, 50, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1936; and longtime friend Margaret Francis Hitsch, 41; he for the second time; in Philadelphia.
Marriage Revealed. Paul Reynaud, 71, onetime Premier of France (March to June, 1940), leader of the right-wing Independent Republican Party in the National Assembly; and Christiane Mabire, 36, his secretary; he for the second time, she for the first; in Versailles.
Divorced. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, 57, British star of stage (Caesar and Cleopatra) and screen (The Winslow Boy); by Actress Helena ("Pixie") Hardwicke, 50, (Time and the Conways); after 23 years of marriage, one son; in London.
Died. Anthony Bingham Mildmay, 41, 2nd Baron Mildmay of Flete, full-time amateur jockey and sportsman; of drowning; in Devonshire, England. Renowned for his awkward, wildly jouncing style, "Nitty" Mildmay at one time ranked fourth on the nation's list of jockeys.
Died. Bertha ("Chippie") Hill, 45, brass-voiced blues singer in the oldtime Bessie Smith tradition; after being hit by an automobile; in Harlem. Chippie would try any request from her stomping audiences except a hymn: "You can't play with God in a nightclub ... As long as I work for the Devil, I better continue with him."
Died. John Gould Fletcher, 64, winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry (Selected Poems); by drowning (coroner's verdict: "Apparent suicide"); after long illness; in Little Rock, Ark.
Died. John Thomas ("Uncle Johnny") Graves, 108, the South's oldest Civil War veteran, for whose sole benefit the Missouri State Confederate Home was maintained at an annual cost of $25,000; in Higginsville, Mo. After two years in the Army of the Confederacy, Uncle Johnny was discharged in 1863 for reasons of "poor health."
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