Monday, May. 06, 1940
Married. Mary Averell Harriman, 23, daughter of Railroad Tycoon W. Averell Harriman (Union Pacific); and Dr. Shirley Carter Fisk, 29; at Arden, N. Y.
Married. John Drew Colt, 26. insurance salesman son of Ethel Barrymore; and Marjorie Dow Bancroft, 27, Boston socialite; he for the first time, she for the second; in Elkton, Md.
Married. Bryan Wallace, British scenarist, son of the late thriller-author, Edgar Wallace; and Wydoline Van Dyke Jones of Columbus, Ohio; in Rome. Because the State Department would not give her a passport to go to England, they had to go to Italy to meet and marry.
Remarried. William Ellery Leonard, 64. University of Wisconsin professor, author (The Locomotive God) and sufferer from agoraphobia, which has kept him for years from going out of sight of his home; and his second (1914-34) wife, Charlotte Charlton Leonard Gill, 48; at home, in Madison, Wis. His first, Charlotte Freeman, died by her own hand in 1911; his third, Co-ed Grace Golden, divorced him in 1937.
Died. Captain D. S. King, 33, British Airways pilot, who flew the plane that carried Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to Germany during the Munich crisis in 1938; in a plane crash near Loch Lomond. Two other crisis pilots have also died in air crashes.
Died. Carl Bosch, 65, head of the German dye trust, chemical wizard (Nobel Prize: 1931); in Heidelberg. He developed the process of making synthetic nitrates (for fertilizers and explosives) which made it possible for Germany to fight through four years of World War I.
Died. Luisa Tetrazzini, 68, most sensational coloratura soprano of opera's Golden Age, whose effortless bell-clear high F# made musical history; after a long illness complicated by grippe; in Milan. She never recovered from a cerebral hemorrhage last February, and for several days before her death was able to take no nourishment except an occasional sip of champagne.
Died. John Crawford Anderson, 76, Chief Justice of Alabama; of a heart attack; in Montgomery, Ala. Lone dissenter on the Alabama Supreme Court in the Scottsboro Case, he doubted that the defendants had received a fair trial.
Died. Julie Daudet, 93, devoted widow of the late great French author Alphonse Daudet (Lettres de Mon Moulin, Tartarin de Tarascon), mother of French Royalist Leader Leon Daudet, herself a writer of books, articles; of old age; in Paris.
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