Monday, Nov. 04, 1940
Born. To Crown Princess Fawziya, 19, sister of Egypt's King Farouk, and Crown Prince Mohammed Reza of Iran, 21: their first child, a daughter.
Married. Susan Briggs, daughter of Walter Owen Briggs (bodymaker for Ford and Chrysler, and owner of the Detroit Tigers); and Everell Edward Fisher, son of Charles T. Fisher (one of the seven brother bodymakers for General Motors); in Detroit. In 1929 another daughter of Bodyman Briggs married another son of Bodyman Fisher.
Divorced. Blonde Valerie Brooke Gregory ("Princess Baba"), 24, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Raja of Sarawak; by Wrestler Bob Gregory, 28, onetime claimant to the European middleweight catch-as-catch-can title; after three married years; in Los Angeles. Grounds: "She is always somewhere else."
Died. Air Vice Marshal Charles Hubert Blount (rhymes with hunt), commander of the R. A. F. Army Cooperation units with the B. E. F., an expert on air-ground coordination; of burns after his plane cracked into a tree in taking off; somewhere in England.
Died. Dr. Holland Thompson, 67, retired history professor at the College of the City of New York, author of books on his native South, editor of the Book of Knowledge; of heart disease; in Manhattan.
Died. General Sir Charles Harington Harington, 68, veteran of the Boer War and World War I (Flanders and Near East campaigns), Governor of Gibraltar through most of the Spanish Civil War and, as such, Neville Chamberlain's adviser on Spain; in retirement at Cheltenham, England. In 1939 he said: "That Spain under Franco is going to be dictated to by either Hitler or Mussolini, I just don't believe and never have."
Died. George Bruce Cortelyou, 78, old-time politician and financier; at his home in Huntington, L. I. Starting as a stenographer in 1883, he rose to be secretary of three successive Presidents (Cleveland, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt), holder of three successive Cabinet posts under Theodore Roosevelt, manager of T. R.'s 1904 Presidential campaign, later president of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York. Said T. R.: "If I could only make you smile, George, I could make you President of the U. S."
Died. Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Cavalcade, 9. Kentucky Derby winner and leading three-year-old in 1934; of "shipping fever" (equine influenza), contracted while traveling from Virginia to Kentucky for the breeding season; at Lexington, Ky.
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