Monday, Sep. 13, 1943
Married. Anne Kaufman, 18, only daughter of Playwright-Producer George S. Kaufman; and Sergeant John Erlanger Booth, 21, peacetime New York Times clerk; in Manhattan.
Sued for Divorce. Doris Duke Cromwell, 30, tobacco-golden heiress to some $50,000,000 ; in a surprise action by James Henry Roberts ("Jimmy") Cromwell, 47, serious-talking-and-writing (The Voice of Young America, Pax Americana) playboy, short-time U.S. Minister to Canada ; eight years after their marriage, one week before her Reno residence would permit her to file a Nevada suit ; in Trenton, N.J.
Died. John Cudahy, 55, heir to meat packing millions, onetime Ambassador to Belgium; of a broken neck when his horse threw him ; on his estate near Milwaukee, Wis. He retired from diplomacy after the Nazis came to Belgium, campaigned for America First and a referendum on war. Six months before Pearl Harbor he got an exclusive interview with Hitler, whom he detested.
Died. Marsden Hartley, 66, American-grained postimpressionist painter; of a heart ailment ; in Ellsworth, Me.
Died. Potter Palmer Jr., 67, judicious financier, who inherited some $8,000,000 from his famed Chicago father, supervised the accumulation of some $92,000,000 more; of influenza complicated by a heart ailment; in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Died. Dr. Thomas Gilbert Pearson, 69, famed conservationist, ornithologist, president emeritus of the National Audubon Society; editor-in-chief of Birds of America (1917); in Manhattan.
Died. Judge Julian William Mack, 77, pioneer Zionist leader, veteran U.S. Circuit Court jurist (1911-41); in Manhattan. Chairman of the first American Jewish Congress (1918-19), he headed the Jewish delegations to the Paris Peace Conference, was president of the Zionist Organization of America from 1918 to 1921. Under his questioning as a member of World War I's Board of Inquiry on Conscientious Objectors, Alvin York dropped his objections.
Died. William Wymark ("W.W.") Jacobs, 79, for almost 50 years a favorite British humorist; after long illness; in London. For his comic Dickensian tales of London dockside life, beaky, grey-thatched Jacobs drew on boyhood experiences as the son of a Wapping wharf manager. With Many Cargoes (1896) he freed himself from a post-office clerkship. But though he culled some 17 volumes in the same vein for his 1931 omnibus, Snug Harbour, his best-known short story was the macabre The Monkey's Paw.
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