Monday, May. 24, 1943
Married. Lady Sarah Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, 21, eldest daughter of the Duke of Marlborough, great-granddaughter of the late William K. Vanderbilt, first cousin (twice-removed) of the Prime Minister; and U.S. Naval Lieut. Edwin Russell, peacetime New Jersey newspaper publisher (and no kin to anybody famous); in London.
Married. Playwright Clifford Odets (Waiting for Lefty, Golden Boy), 36; and Actress Betty Grayson, 24; two years after his divorce from Cinemactress Luise Rainer; in Manhattan.
Sued for Divorce. By Elizabeth Hicks Newell, 22, pint-sized, long-driving 1941 women's national amateur golf champion, now a professional: Oklahoma aircraft executive Frank Newell, 27; in Long Beach, Calif.
Killed in Action. Georges Andre, 54, famed French athlete (Rugby player, swimmer, boxer, fencer, cyclist, and track and field star); at Mateur, North Africa. An Olympic ace before World War I, he recovered from serious ankle wounds to set or break more than 40 national track and field records (100-yd. dash: 9.6 seconds), still held 14 at his death.
Died. Albert Stoessel, 48, violinist, conductor, composer; of a heart attack while conducting; in Manhattan. He was also a distinguished teacher, in 1921 succeeded Walter Damrosch as maestro of New York's Oratorio Society, wrote an American opera (Garrick), was a guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony.
Died. Dr. James Ewing, 76, world-honored cancer authority, longtime professor of pathology at Cornell's Medical School (1899-1932); in Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, which he directed from 1913 to 1939. He published his land mark cancer text, Neoplastic Diseases, in 1919, after 20 years of tireless, neuralgia-racked labor. He believed in no universal cancer cure, plugged research, early diagnosis.
Died. Dr. Jens Otto Harry Jespersen, 82, philologist; in Roskilde, Denmark (see p. 47).
Died. William Andrew Johnson, 87, onetime slave of President Andrew Johnson; in Knoxville. In 1937 he chatted with Franklin Roosevelt about the Emancipator's successor, received an FDR-initialed silver-headed cane to take back to his pastry kitchen.
Died. Sarah Grand, 88, pioneer British suffragette, six times Mayor of Bath, popular novelist (The Heavenly Twins); in Bath, England.
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