Monday, Aug. 04, 1941

Born. To David Rockefeller, 26, youngest son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., and Margaret McGrath Rockefeller, 25: a son, David Jr., 7 lb.; in Manhattan. He is John D. Jr.'s fourteenth grandchild.

Born. To Richard Krebs (Jan Valtin --Out of the Night) and Abigail Krebs, 17: a son; in Danbury, Conn.

Birthday. George Bernard Shaw: his 85th; in England; celebrated by the announcement that he was writing a book to be titled Everybody's Political What's-What.

Married. Cinemactress Judy Garland (Frances Gumm), 19; and Band Leader Dave Rose, 31, ex-husband of Martha Raye; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Married. Torchsinger Helen Morgan, 36; and Lloyd Johnson, 41, Los Angeles auto dealer; each for the second time; in Miami Beach. She divorced Maurice Maschke Jr., son of Cleveland's late Republican boss, in 1935.

Sued for Divorce. Edgar Rice Burroughs, 65, tireless biographer of Tarzan; by Florence Gilbert Dearholt Burroughs, 36, his second wife; in Los Angeles.

Died. Richard Jaeckel, 55, wealthy Manhattan furrier (Jaeckel, Inc.); by jumping from a hotel window; in Chicago. An awning saved his life when he plunged ten stories into it from a Manhattan window in February 1940.

Died. Howard Harding Jones, 55, quiet-mannered, unspectacular coach of the West's most spectacular football team, the Trojans of U.S.C.; at North Hollywood, Calif. Brother of Yale's once famed T. A. D. Jones, he went to work on the Trojans in 1925, transformed them from something second-rate into "the West's best." Their record under his coaching: 121 games won, 36 lost, 13 tied.

Died. Edward Beale McLean, 55, onetime publisher of the Washington Post, buyer of the famed Hope diamond; near Baltimore. He bought the diamond for a rumored $154,000 in 1911, gave it to his wife, Evalyn Walsh McLean, mining heiress (Father Struck It Rich). In the early '20s they entertained spectacularly in Washington, were cronies of President Harding and his Cabinet members. Adjudged insane in 1933, McLean died in a sanatorium. His will, made in 1931, left $300,000 to Cinemactress Marion Davies' sister, Rose, for "her association and affection"; $5,000 to each of his three children, and dower rights to his widow.

Died. John Ford, 79, ferret of literary obscenity, longtime (1906-1932) New York Supreme Court Justice; in Manhattan. He founded the Clean Books League.

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