Monday, Jun. 02, 1941
Birthdays. Queen Mary of England, 74; quietly "somewhere in the country," resting briefly from her visits to relief stations, rest centers, war benefits. Earl Browder, 50, ex-general secretary of the Communist Party; quietly in the U.S. Penitentiary at Atlanta.
Married. Donald Budge, 25, national professional tennis champion; and Deirdre Conselman, 18; in Chicago's swank St. Chrysostom's.
Married. Martha Rave, 25, cavern-mouthed cinemasinger; and Neal Lang, 38, Florida hotelkeeper; she for the third time; in Las Vegas, Nev.
Married. Jo Davidson, 58, portly, bearded, widowed sculptor of the famous; and Sculptress Florence G. Lucius, a lifetime friend; in Caracas, Venezuela.
Died. Stocky, boyish-looking Commander Guenther Prien, 33, Germany's No. 1 naval hero; spurlos versenkt in the Battle of the Atlantic. A shrill-voiced banty, called "little hothead" by his friends, he won the awed admiration of enemy sea fighters as well as his own countrymen by a daring and ingenuity that sank a claimed 235,941 tons of shipping. After his submarine torpedoed H.M.S. Royal Oak inside the heavily mined harbor at Scapa Flow in October 1939, the British Admiralty paid tribute to his "remarkable skill and daring."
Died. Baron Austin, 74, whose "Baby" Austins made him the Henry Ford of the British Empire; near Bromsgrove; England. In Britain, where motors are taxed by the horsepower, Austins are everywhere, but in the U.S. they flopped with upkeeping Joneses.
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