Monday, Jul. 30, 1951
Born. To Lucille Ball, 39, orange-haired cinemactress (Du Barry Was a Lady), and Desi Arnaz, 34, Latin bandleader: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Lucie Desiree. Weight: 7 Ibs. 6 oz.
Born. To Maureen O'Sullivan, 40, Irish-born cinemactress (Tarzan and. His Mate, Tarzan etc.), and John Farrow, 46, film director: their seventh child, fourth daughter, in Los Angeles. Name: Teresa Mary. Weight: 8 Ibs. i oz.
Died. Admiral Forrest Percival Sherman, 54, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations; of a heart attack; in Naples, Italy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).
Died. Robert Joseph Flaherty, 67, No. 1 pioneer of the documentary film Nanook of the North, Louisiana Story); after long illness; in Dummerston, Vt.
Died. King Abdullah Ibn-Hussein, 69, Arab ruler of the Kingdom of Jordan; by an assassin's bullet; in Old Jerusalem (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Died. Ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst von Hohenzollern, 69, eldest son of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II, great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria; of a heart ailment; in Hechingen, southwest Germany. During World War I, as commander of the Reich's Fifth Army, he took a decisive beating from Marshal Petain at Verdun, fled to ignominious exile in Holland. In 1923, he returned to Germany, hoping to succeed his deposed father, instead bowed to Hitler, joined the Nazis. Near the end of World War II, the French found Wilhelm hiding in Austria and contemptuously sent him back to his Hechingen chalet.
Died. William H. Balgarnie, 82, senior classics master at Leys School, Cambridge; of a heart attack; in Portmadoc, Wales. During World War I, he taught Latin and Greek to a student named James Hilton, who later used him, in part, as the model for Goodbye, Mr. Chips.
Died. Adam Stefan Cardinal Sapieha, 84, Archbishop of Krakow, last free Roman Catholic cardinal behind the Iron Curtain, foe of Poland's Red regime; after long illness; in Krakow, Poland.
Died. Henri Philippe Omer Benoit Joseph Petain, 95, Marshal of France, hero of Verdun in World War I, symbol of French defeatism and defeat in World War II; in Port Joinville, Ile d'Yeu, where he had been since June 29, when his life prison sentence for treason, already commuted from death, was commuted again to confinement in a hospital. To the end, Petain insisted that, as Premier in 1940, he capitulated to the Nazis and then collaborated with them to "spare" France. "You may judge me according to your conscience," he told the court. "Mine is clear.
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