Monday, Jul. 03, 1944
Married. Lieut. (j.g.) Endicott ("Chub") Peabody II, 23, Harvard's All-America guard in 1941, son of the Rt. Rev. Malcolm Endicott Peabody, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York, grandson of Groton School's famed founder Endicott Peabody; and Barbara Welch Gibbons, 22, Bermuda socialite; in Manhattan.
Married. Ruth Googins Roosevelt, 34, since April Colonel Elliott Roosevelt's second exwife; and Lieut. Colonel Harry T. Eidson, 34, onetime personal pilot for Colonel Roosevelt, decorated by him in North Africa a year ago; she for the second time, he for the first, in Fort Worth.
Married. Leslie Hore-Belisha, 45, onetime British War Secretary (1937-40) and Cynthia Elliott, 29, repatriated British war nurse; at Norbiton, Surrey. Long a confirmed bachelor, he once vowed that he would never marry because no woman could cook like his mother.
Married. General Morris Abraham ("Two-Gun") Cohen, 57, old China hand and soldier of fortune; and Judith Clark, 40, proprietress of Montreal's Judith Clark dress shop; she for the second time, he for the first; in Montreal. A British-born onetime clothes peddler, he met China's late great Sun Yat-sen in Vancouver's Chinatown, became his personal bodyguard, later led Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese regulars and served in Europe as a secret agent for the Chinese.
Died. Nguboyenja, youngest son of mighty Lobengula, last of the Zulus' great Matabele kings (TIME, Jan. 10); after 15 years of silence; near Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia. Educated in England through the good offices of Cecil Rhodes, he returned to South Africa to find that the elders of the royal house (the Kamalo Clan) disapproved of him and his newfound ways. He went into seclusion, read English classics, refused to speak either his native tongue or English.
Died. Benjamin H. Marshall, 70, design-for-living architect; of a heart ailment; in Chicago. He. designed Chicago's Blackstone, Drake and Edgewater Beach hotels, New York's Maxine Elliott Theater and Philadelphia's Forrest, for himself designed a pink, gaudy, tricked-up house which boasted a Ming bed that slept seven, a dining table that came up with the soup course, sank to the kitchen below, came back with the chicken and gravy.
Died. Frederick William, Lewis, Baron Essendon, 74, the "Napoleon of British shipping," longtime chairman of Furness-Withy & Co., Ltd. (Furness Lines); in London.
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