Monday, Dec. 27, 1943

Born. To King Farouk, 23, and Queen Farida ("The Only One"), 22: their third princess, third non-heir to the throne; in Cairo.

Divorced. By Deanna Durbin, 22, who sang Universal Pictures out of bankruptcy to the tune of a $20,000,000 box office in five years: Naval Reserve Lieut. Vaughn Paul, 28, onetime assistant cinema director; after two and a half years of marriage, for each the first; in Los Angeles.

Died. Thomas Wright ("Fats") Waller, 39, famed jazz pianist and composer (TIME, Aug. 9); of bronchopneumonia; in Kansas City. A Harlem pastor's son, portly, powerful, 2/o-lb. Fats Waller wrote such jazz classics as Honeysuckle Rose, Ain't Misbehavin', My Fate Is in Your Hands, I've Got a Feelin' I'm Fallin'. He once defined swing (for a serious young woman): "Lady, if you got to ask, you ain't got it."

Died. George Brant Bridgman, 79, U.S. art's top-ranking teacher of anatomy, for 44 years a lecturer at Manhattan's Art Students League; after long illness; in New Rochelle, N.Y. Small, bald, Canadian-born Bridgman studied under Gerome and Boulanger in Paris, developed in his famed Constructive Anatomy (100,000 copies since 1920) the analogy between the human figure and geometrical forms. He proposed to teach students how to draw the human figure accurately, let them develop their own esthetic approach to the subject. He had 80,000 students, including Cartoonists Percy Crosby and Otto Soglow, Illustrators McClelland Barclay and Norman Rockwell.

Died. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, 91, inventor of flaked cereals, famed director of Battle Creek Sanitarium; after long illness; in Battle Creek, Mich. Kellogg, whose white mustache and goatee made him look like an otter-shaped Buffalo Bill, was the son of Seventh Day Adventists. He took over their church's hydrotherapeutic institution at Battle Creek in 1876. Bored by oatmeal, in 1895 he boiled and rolled wheat, pronounced the flakes fine, in 1906 he sold his $250,000 interest in their manufacture to his brother, famed Will Keith ("Corn Flakes") Kellogg. John Harvey Kellogg and his childless wife brought up 40-odd foster children, inspired his onetime patient W. C. Post to the discovery of Postum and Post Toasties. Recent Kellogg health rule: ". . . eat less breakfast foods . . . and more potatoes."

Died. Annie Knight Gregory, 100, "last true Daughter of the American Revolution" (her father was one of George Washington's drummer boys at Valley Forge); in Williamsport, Pa.

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