Monday, Nov. 24, 1952

Born. To Ruth Roman, 28, brunette cinemactress (Champion, The Window) and Mortimer Hall, 28, Los Angeles radio station manager and son of Dorothy Schiff, publisher of the New York Post: their first child; a son; in Santa Monica Calif. Name: Richard. Weight: 6 lbs.

Married. Joan Fontaine, 35, cinemactress (Rebecca, Ivanhoe); and Collier Young, 44, Hollywood producer; both for the third time (her first: Actor Brian Aherne; his second: Cinemactress Ida Lupmo); after a slapstick beginning (he lost the license, she lost her trousseau, both missed their honeymoon plane); in Saratoga, Calif.

Married. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger 46, only daughter of F.D.R.; and Dr. James A. Halsted, 47, assistant professor at the University of California's medical school; she for the third time, he for the second; in a ceremony witnessed by Eleanor Roosevelt and brothers James and Elliott; in Malibu, Calif.

Remarried. Virginia Bruce, 42 onetime Ziegfeld Follies girl and cinemactress (Yellow Jack, Escapade); and Ali Ipar, 31, Turkish film producer. Married first in 1946, they were divorced in 1951 when he began his compulsory Turkish army service, because Turkish law forbids commissions to men married to foreigners; in Istanbul.

Died. Margaret Wise Brown, 42, best-selling author of childrens' books (more than 60 in 15 years) under various pen names (Golden MacDonald, Timothy Hay); of complications following an appendectomy; in Nice, France. Author Brown did much of her work in a deserted old house on the Maine coast liked the challenge of writing for five-year-olds because she thought they were at the height of their sensory awareness.

Died. Abraham Howard Feller, 47 New York-born general counsel to the United Nations; in a leap from the window of his twelfth-floor apartment; in Manhattan (see INTERNATIONAL).

Died. Charles Marie Photius Maurras 84, firebrand editor of the royalist, anti-Semitic L'Action Franc,aise newspaper philosophical writer (The Three Aspects of President Wilson, The Future of Intelligence) and venomous opponent of the French Republic ("the whore") and democracy ("the mother of anarchy"); in Tours, France. So violent were his pre-World War II attacks against his enemies-of-the-moment that he was excommunicated from the Catholic Church, served time in jail for "incitement to murder" and was deluged with libel suits. Convicted in 1945 of collaborating with the Nazis, he had served seven years of a life imprisonment sentence when he was released because of age and ailments.

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