Monday, Sep. 04, 1944
Born. To the Duke of Gloucester, 44, Governor General-select of Australia, and his Scottish Duchess, 42: their second child, second son, fifth in direct succession to the throne; in London. Weight: 7 Ibs. 2 oz.
Married. Paulina Longworth, 19, granddaughter of T.R., only daughter of the late Congressman Nicholas and Alice Roosevelt Longworth; and Alexander McCormick Sturm, 21, precocious humorist and book-illustrator (The Problem Fox, From Ambush to Zig-Zag); in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass.
Married. Pfc. Alton W. Knappen-berger, 20, Nazi-slaying "one man army of Anzio"; and Ruth Eickhoff, 16, his home town sweetheart; in Red Hill, Pa. The Congressional Medal of Honor winner was told to "speak up" when applying for the license, later delayed the marriage ceremony by forgetting the document, had to run back for it.
Married. Army Air Forces Lieut. Thomas Dudley Harmon, 24, twice All-America Michigan halfback, twice reported lost on duty; and Hollywood starlet Elyse Knox, 26, dressed in a gown made from his bullet-riddled silk parachute; in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Divorced. By Myrna Loy, 39, "the perfect screen wife": John D. Hertz Jr., 36, Manhattan advertising executive and taxicab heir; after two years; in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Grounds: incompatibility.
Reported Dead. Maurice Chevalier, 54, straw-hatted, camel-lipped vaudevillian; executed by French Maquis. Son of a starving housepainter in Paris's Menilmontant slum, Chevalier first took the stage at II as a midget comic, played baggy-pants burlesque routines while he grew taller. In his teens, he replaced the dancing partner of Paris's famed Mistinguette, in World War I landed in a German prison camp, escaped as a Red Cross worker. After the war he grinned and pouted his way from French casinos to frothy U.S. cinema successes (Love Parade, The Smiling Lieutenant), thriftily saved his salary, returned to France, where he was suspected of collaborating with the Nazis.
Died. Luigi Cardinal Maglione, 67, seasoned, Fascist-hated Papal Secretary of State since 1939, longtime Vatican Nuncio to France; of neuritis and circulatory ailments; in his birthplace, Casoria, near Naples. Heavy-smoking Cardinal Maglione succeeded his schoolmate Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli as Secretary of State when Pacelli became Pope Pius XII, was so close to him that Italians punned: whenever the Pope went out without his maglione (Italian for large sweater), he caught cold.
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