Monday, Jun. 19, 1950
Married. James W. Wilson, 25, one of the two U.S. servicemen to lose both arm and both legs during World War II (his limbs were amputated after a B-24 crash in Vermont of which he was the only survivor); and Dorothy Darlene Mortensen 23; in Jacksonville, three days after his graduation (B.A., prelaw) from the university of Florida
Divorced. By Joan Blondell, 40, durable blonde cinemactress (Model Wife) : Third Husband Michael Todd, 42, Broadway producer (As the Girls Go); after three years of marriage ; in Las Vegas, Nev.
Divorced. By Robert Anthony Eden, 53, Britain's NO. 2 Tory, successor presumptive to No. 1 Winston Churchill foreign Secretary in two cabinets (1935-38; 1940-45): Beatrice Helen Eden, 44, baronet's daughter now living in Manhattan; after 27 years of marriage (three of seperation), two sons; in London Grounds: desertion
Died. Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, 62, oldtime Royal Navy seadog, commander of the three cruiser squadron (Ajax, Achilles Exeter) that licked the Admiral Graf Spee in the Rio de la Plata in December-1939; in Goring-on-Thames, England.
Died. Joseph A. Burke, 66, composer of such popular song hits as Carolina Moon and A Little Bit Independent; of a heart ailment; in Upper Darby, Pa.
Died. Hazel Whitaker Vandenberg 67 second wife of Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (his first wife, mother of his three children, died in 1916); after long illness; in Washington.
Died. Charles S. Howard, 73, California Buick distributor and race horse owner-in Hillsborough, Calif. In 1935 Howard paid $7,500 for a homely, wobbly-kneed three-year-old bay named Seabiscuit; at the ripe old age of seven, Seabiscuit came out of retirement to win the "Hundred Grand Santa Anita Handicap.
Died. Meigs O. Frost, 77, veteran newsman, whose reporting for the New Orleans States helped in the 1939 exposure of Long-machine politics in Louisiana; in Jefferson Parish, La.
Died. Professor Thomas Whittemore, 79, Harvard archeologist who supervised the uncovering of St. Sophia's wondrous Byzantine mosaics; in Washington, D.C. The mosaics, constructed over the course of nine centuries by thousands of anonymous workmen, were plastered over by the Moslem Turks who took Constantinople in 1453 (the Koran prohibits images), remained hidden until 1932, when Whittemore began the painstaking job, still uncompleted, of removing the plaster chip by chip.
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