Monday, Oct. 22, 1945
Married. Captain Roger C. Williams, 29, son of Satevepost novelist Ben Ames Williams; and Jean Gannett, 21, daughter of Maine publisher Guy P. Gannett; in Cape Elizabeth, Me.
Divorced. John Ringling North, 42, former president of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus; by beauteous French Cinemactress Germaine Aussey Agassiz North, 35; after five years of marriage, three of separation; in Sarasota, Fla. Grounds: extreme cruelty. Example: soon after they were married, he left her to hunt for a mate for his lonely gorilla, Gargantua.
Died. Faustin E. Wirkus, 49, Marine Corps non-com who became, by popular demand, King Faustin II (1925-29) of the 10,000 voodoo-practicing natives living on the island of La Gonave (near Haiti), where he was stationed as a one-man police force (his subjects gravely saluted him: "Bon soi, roi!"--TIME, April 6, 1931); after long illness; in Brooklyn.
Died. Thomas Clark Bundy, 64, three times national doubles tennis champion (with Maurice McLoughlin), former husband of onetime (1904) women's national singles champion May Sutton, father of first-ten player Dorothy May Bundy, uncle of onetime (1930) national singles champion John Hope Doeg; after long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif.
Died. Felix Salten, 76, Viennese essayist, novelist, dramatist, known in the U.S. only for his sometimes touching, sometimes saccharine books about animals (most famed: Bambi, Disneyized in 1942) ; after long illness; in Zurich, Switzerland.
Died. Joseph Cardinal MacRory, 84, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland; after a brief illness; in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Scion of a lusty clan called "The Burnderries" (because in 1608 they rebelled against the British and burned London derry), the doughty Archbishop bitterly opposed the partition of Ireland. For his funeral Prime Minister Eamon de Valera said that he would go from Eire into Northern Ireland for the first time in 17 years.
Died. Milton Snavely Hershey, 88, philanthropist, founder of the Hershey Chocolate Corp. and the Hershey Industrial School for orphan boys; in Hershey, Pa., the company town (neighboring Pennsylvania Dutch farmers sometimes complain of "da chockle shtink") he founded in a cornfield in 1903. In 1937, after having transferred his assets to the school (enrollment: 1,000), he said: "I have in the world, now, my clothes, my furniture, a few securities, and nothing else."
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