Monday, Dec. 02, 1940

Birthday. Vice President John Nance Garner; his 72nd. celebrated at Uvalde, Tex. Cracked Cactus Jack: "I'm going to live to be 92."

Married. Angier Biddle Duke, 24, sportsman tobacco heir and nephew of U. S. Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr.; and Mrs. Margaret Screven White Tuck, 34, Tuxedo Park socialite; a few hours after she secured a divorce from Captain Alexander J. M. Tuck; in Reno.

Married. Ernest Hemingway, 42, novelist (A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls); and Martha Gellhorn, 32, war correspondent; he for the third time; by a justice of the peace in the Union Pacific dining hall; at Cheyenne, Wyo.

Married. Dragisa Cvetkovic, 47. Premier of Yugoslavia, who divorced his first wife last month; and Mara Nikolajevic, 35, dark-eyed society beauty; at Hopovo Monastery, near Novisad, Yugoslavia.

Died. Billy Jones, 51, tenor half of the Happiness Boys, first nationally known radio team, partner from 1920 until 1939 of the late Baritone Ernie Hare; of a heart attack, as he strolled along Broadway on his way to rehearse his Sunday program over station WMCA.

Died. Adrienne Morrison (real name: Mabel Morrison Bennett Pinker), 57, first wife of Actor Richard Bennett, mother of Cinemactresses Constance, Barbara and Joan Bennett; of heart disease; in Manhattan. A onetime actress herself, she turned literary agent and married Eric Seabrooke Pinker, later her partner, who last year pleaded guilty of misappropriating $20,637 owing to Client E. Phillips Oppenheim and was sentenced to prison.

Died. Senator Arturo Bocchini, 60, fat, unpublicized chief of Italy's police since 1926, "the man with a million eyes and a million ears," director of OVRA (Italy's Gestapo); in Rome. Cop Bocchini called on Mussolini at noon daily to report on public opinion; on such a call in 1935 was said to have given the answer which decided the Duce to send his troops into Ethiopia.

Died. Viscount Craigavon, 69, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland since the Ulster Government's establishment in 1920, implacable foe of Irish independence for more than 30 years; at his country house near Belfast. Famed alike for his bluntly uttered opinions and his fierce disregard of metaphorical discipline, once he roared: "The naked sword is drawn for the fight, and, gentlemen, never again will the black smoke of Nationalist tar barrels drift on the Home Rule wind to darken the hearts of Englishmen."

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