Monday, Aug. 18, 1941
Engaged. Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, 57, of North Carolina; and Evalyn Walsh McLean, 20, daughter of diamond-bearing dowager Evalyn Walsh McLean. The Senator has been married four times.
Married. Margaret Houghton Hepburn, 21, sister of Katharine; and Dr. Thomas Perry, 25, physicist; in Elkton, Md.
Married. Private John L. ("Jackie") Coogan, 26; and one Flower Parry, 19; he for the second time; in Gardnerville, Nev. His ex: Betty Grable.
Married. Allan A. Ryan Jr., 37, grandson of the late, great financier, Thomas Fortune Ryan; and Priscilla ("Prune") St. George Duke, 21, "prettiest blonde divorcee in Tuxedo Park," grandniece of Sara Delano Roosevelt, ex-wife of Tobacconist Angier Biddle Duke; he for the third time, she for the second; in Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
Divorced. By Cinemactress Mary Brian, 33: Artist Jon Whitcomb, 34, painter of pretty girls; in Carson City, Nev. They married in May, parted in June.
Died. Bruno Mussolini, 23; in a bomber crash near Pisa (see p. 16).
Died. Natalio Botana, 53, publisher of Buenos Aires' evening Critica; of auto-crash injuries; in Jujuy, Argentina. He built Critica from an obscure sheet to one of South America's biggest.
Died. Rabindranath Tagore, 80, India's most famed modern philosopher and most voluminous poet; in Calcutta, India. First Asiatic to win the Nobel Prize, he was crowned for Gitanjali, a selection of his poems, at the age of 52. He wrote some 3,000 lyrical poems, set them to his own music; published nearly 100 volumes of poetry, some 40 volumes of novels and short stories, some 50 volumes of literary, political, religious essays, scores of children's stories. A lecturer, a dreamer of universal brotherhood, which he was never able to bring about between Hindus and Moslems, his purpose was to harmonize the mystical mind of the East with the Western rationalism.
Died. William Mitchell Kendall, 85, architect; in Bar Harbor, Me. He was a designer of the old Madison Square Garden, Manhattan's Pennsylvania Railroad Station, Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington, Harvard's Memorial Gates, the portico housing Plymouth Rock.
Died. Cordelia Howard Macdonald, 93, the original "Little Eva" of Uncle Tom's Cabin; in Belmont, Mass. Aged four, she played in the first dramatization of the novel, performed at the Troy Museum in Troy, N.Y. in 1852.
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