Monday, Dec. 15, 1941
Marriage Revealed. King Leopold III of the Belgians; and Marie-Lelia Baels, daughter of an ex-member of Belgium's Cabinet; near Brussels.
Married. Comedian Milton Berle, 33; and Actress Joyce Mathews, 22; she for the second time; in Beverly Hills. Her first marriage, to Colonel Gonzalo Gomez, son of the late Venezuelan Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez, lasted twelve weeks.
Married. Comedian Mischa Auer, 36; and Singer Joyce Duskin Hunter, 25; each for the second time; day after his wife Norma Tillman's divorce became final; by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia; in Manhattan.
Died. Wells Hawks, 71, longtime press-agent of the old school; in Pomona, N.Y. In the early 1900s he publicized Julia Marlowe, Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, popularized the Mary Pickford label: "America's Sweetheart."
Died. Karl Decker, 73, damsel-rescuing Hearst reporter of the Spanish-American War; in Manhattan. A series of articles he wrote on Spain's cruelty to Cubans was credited with an assist toward the U.S. declaration of war on Spain. One midnight with a party of Cubans he spirited beautiful 18-year-old Evangelina Cisneros, daughter of a Cuban revolutionary, out of a Havana jail cell. Her window bars were filed, she was hoisted to the roof by rope and taken in boy's clothing to a chartered steamer. On her arrival in Manhattan she got a heroine's reception, and she and Decker were later feted at the White House.
Died. Dr. Henry Winters Luce, 73, retired Presbyterian Missionary to China, father of TIME Editor Henry R. Luce; in Haverford, Pa. Lifelong friend of China, largely responsible for the establishment of Shantung's first Christian University and Peking's Yenching University, he was a dynamic worker for the political, cultural and religious education of the Chinese. He died in his sleep on the day the U.S. and China became allies against Japan.
Died. Maud Morgan, 77, longtime leading U.S. harpist, believed to be the first harpist to solo on the U.S. concert stage; on Staten Island, N.Y. She made her debut in 1875, gave concerts in the U.S. and in Europe for more than 50 years.
Died. Dr. Thomas Herbert Norton, 90, chemist who studied European chemical industries while he was U.S. consul at Chemnitz, Germany (1906-14), returned home to compile the famed "Dyestuff Census," on which the beginnings of the domestic dye industry were founded during World War I when German dyestuffs were unavailable; in White Plains, N.Y.
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