Monday, Mar. 15, 1943
Married. Diane Guggenheim, 18, daughter of copper-rich Lieut. Commander Harry F. Guggenheim; and Army Lieut. John Meredith Langstaff, 22, peacetime concert singer; in Manhattan.
Married. Martha Knudsen, 23, youngest of Lieut. General William S. Knudsen's three daughters; and Air Forces Lieut. Paul Milton McKenney, 25, of Detroit; in Detroit.
Married. Prince Franz Josef II, 36, ruler of the half-pint-sized (65 sq. mi.) peaceful Principality of Liechtenstein, between onetime Austria and Switzerland; and Countess Gina Wilczek, 21, granddaughter of the late Viennese Count Hans Wilczek; in Vaduz, Liechtenstein.
Divorced. Cinedirector Charles Vidor, 42; by Mabel Linton Vidor (Cinemactress Karen Morley), 33; after eleven years of marriage; in Hollywood.
Died. Captain Stephen Hulbert Avenel Haggard, 31, writer-actor son of Sir Godfrey Digby Napier Haggard, British Consul General in New York; grandnephew of Author H. Rider Haggard; in an undisclosed battle area. He appeared with Ethel Barrymore in 1938's Whiteoaks, same year attracted attention with his first novel, Nya.
Died. Akilles Jarvinen, Olympics decathlon record-breaker in 1932, member of Finland's No. 1 family of athletes; of accident injuries; in Helsinki. Father Werner was Finland's first Olympics champion, won the Greek style discus throw in 1906; Brother Matti threw the javelin for an Olympics record in 1932; Brother Kaarlo is a famed shotputter.
Died. James J. ("Jimmy") Collins, 73, baseball's onetime and perhaps alltime greatest third baseman; of pneumonia; in Buffalo. Famed for his fast defense against bunts, he once had the pleasure of tossing out Bunt-Attempters Wee Willie Keeler, John McGraw and Hughie Jennings in succession. He managed the Boston Red Sox to victory in 1903-8 first World Series, quit professional baseball in 1911, invested in real estate, went broke in the depression, managed the Buffalo Parks Department teams.
Died. Captain Edward Algernon Fitzroy, 73, Speaker of the House of Commons since 1928, Conservative M.P. for 38 years; in London (see p. 27).
Died. Dr. Alexandre Emile John Yersin, 79, Pasteur Institute bacteriologist, codiscoverer with Dr. Pierre Roux of diphtheria antitoxin; in Annan, French Indo-China. He was also codiscoverer of an antitoxin with which he fought the bubonic plague in China in the 'gos, in honor of him the Chinese raised temples.
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