Monday, Aug. 24, 1953
Born. To Lord Ogilvy, 27, heir to the 300-year-old Scottish earldom of Airlie and Lady Ogilvy, 20, the former Virginia Fortune Ryan, daughter of New York Socialite John Barry Ryan: their first child, a daughter; in London. Name: Doune Mabell. Weight: 7 Ibs. 10 oz.
Divorced. By Maureen O'Hara, 32 Dublin-born cinemactress (The Quiet Man): Hollywood Producer-Director Will Price, 38 (Strange Bargain, Tripoli); after 11 1/2 years of marriage; one daughter; in Hollywood, Calif.
Died. John Home Burns, 36, Harvard-educated schoolteacher turned novelist best known for his 1947 bestselling portrayal of American G.I.s in war-torn Naples (The Gallery) ; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Leghorn, Italy.
Died. Lieut. General Sir Frank Noel Mason MacFarlane, K.C.B., 63, one of Britain's ablest soldier-administrators; of arthritis and complications from a broken leg; in Twyford, England. Four times decorated in World War I, Mason MacFarlane headed British intelligence in France when World War II began. After the 1940 German breakthrough in Belgium, he mustered a hodgepodge "Mac Force" of rear-echelon troops and led a fighting retreat to Dunkirk. In 1944 as chief of the Allied Control Commission in liberated Italy, he smoothly directed the cleanup of Fascist officials. At war's end Laborite "Mason Mac" was elected to' Parliament.
Died. Friedrich Schorr, 64, famed Wagnerian baritone of the Metropolitan Opera (1923-43); of cancer; in Farmington, Conn. Hungarian-born son of a Jewish cantor, he first studied law in Vienna eventually joined a barnstorming Wagnerian troupe, and after one season in the U.S., was signed up by the Met. Best-known for his memorable Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger and Wotan in Die Waluere, Baritone Schorr shut himself up for hours before singing a new role, to master every histrionic detail.
Died. General Andre Georges Corap 75, whose French Ninth Army was annihilated in the decisive 1940 German breakthrough near Sedan; at Fontainebleau, near Paris.
Died. Augustus Van Home Stuyvesant Jr., 83, Manhattan millionaire, sole surviving direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant (1592-1672), last Dutch governor of New Amsterdam; in his 20-odd-room Manhattan town house. Four days after his death, Stuyvesant was buried in the family crypt at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bouwerie, where 85 other Stuyvesants and Stuyvesant connections are entombed. Then the vault's massive bronze door (inscribed "Peter Stuyvesant-His Vault") was closed forever.
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