Monday, Jan. 24, 1944
Born. To Frank Sinatra, 26, Swoonster, and Nancy Sinatra, 24: a first son, their second child, Francis Wayne; in Jersey City.
Death Revealed. Stirling Fessenden, 68, Maine-born, Lord Mayor of Shanghai (1923-39); in September; in Shanghai.
Died. Ann Clare Brokaw, 19, daughter of Connecticut Representative Clare Boothe Luce and Henry R. Luce; in an automobile accident in Palo Alto, Calif. A senior in Stanford University, majoring in political science and philosophy, she was on her way with a classmate to register for her last term. Congresswoman Luce was in California to spend her vacation with her daughter before proceeding on a speaking tour.
Died. Galeazzo Ciano, 41, before a firing squad; in Verona, Italy.
Died. Commander George H. Tilghman, U.S.N.R., 47, peacetime headmaster of the Morristown (N.J. ) School, World War I Coast Artillery lieutenant; at the station of his aircraft carrier service unit, somewhere in the Pacific.
Died. Robert John Kirby, 54, warden of Sing Sing, like his predecessor, Lewis E. Lawes, an opponent of capital punishment; of pneumonia; in Ossining, N.Y.
Died. James Alexander Stillman, 70, socialite ex-president of the National City Bank of New York; in Manhattan. In 1921 he sued his wife "Fifi" (Anne Urquhart Potter Stillman) for divorce, sensationally and unsuccessfully alleging that the father of their son Guy was a Canadian Indian guide, Fred Beauvais. After her countercharge that Stillman was love-nesting with stage beauty Flo Leeds, he resigned his bank presidency.
Died. Juliette Atkinson Buxton, 71, onetime National Woman's tennis champion (1895-97-95); in Lawrenceville, Ill.
Died. William Collier, 77, veteran actor and playwright; of pneumonia; in Beverly Hills, Calif. His best-known roles, in 35 years, were in Hoss and Hoss, Nothing But the Truth, The Patriot.
Died. Frederick Scheetz Jones, 81, crusty, longtime (1909-27) Dean of Yale College; in New Haven, Conn. Using the names of Yale Presidents Arthur Hadley and Timothy Dwight, Dean Jones replied in 1914 to the famed quatrain on Boston ("And the Lowells speak only to God"):
Here's to the town of New Haven,
The home of the Truth and the Light,
Where God talks to Jones in the very same tones
That He uses with Hadley and Dwight!
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