Monday, Apr. 22, 1946
Married. Robert Browne Wallace, 27, Commerce Secretary Henry Agard Wallace's ex-Army major son, now a fledgling educational film producer (Film Publish ers, Inc.); and Gordon Grosvenor, 27, Yale Ph.D. in sociology; both for the first time; in Philadelphia.
Married. Boris Karloff (real name: William Henry Pratt), 58, gaunt cinema bogeyman; and Evelyn Helmore, 42; both for the second time; in Boulder City, Nev., the day after Karloff was granted a divorce from his first wife, Dorothy Stine Pratt, who he said was cruel to him.
Died. Lyle Saxon, 54, local-colorist of the Louisiana bayou country; after long illness; in New Orleans. From oft-told tales about the quadroons and mulattoes who inhabited the shifting Mississippi delta, he wove novels of romance and violence (Children of Strangers, Lafitte, the Pirate] and neo-Gothic horror stories of New Orleans-below-the-belt (Gumbo Fa-Fa).
Died. Alvin Victor ("Vic") Donahey, 72, Ohio's sphinxlike former Democratic Governor (1923-29) and U.S. Senator (1935-41), who made a fetish of honesty, political capital of silence; of a rare, tropical blood disease; in Columbus, Ohio.
Died. Julius Salter Elias, Viscount Southwood, 73, onetime London errand boy who became head of Britain's whop ping Odhams Press (the London Daily Herald, The People, John Butt, News Review*), and a peer; of a heart attack; in London. Stumpy, colorless, hard-work ing (often 16 hours a day), "The Little Man" let his publications maintain conflicting editorial policies, specialized in building them to million-plus circulation.
Died. Amos Sulka, 84, haberdasher to solid citizens like Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, fashioner of lush, loud ties for the carriage trade; in Manhattan.
Died. Caleb Frank Gates, 88, onetime missionary, longtime (1903-32) progressive president of famed Robert (American) College in Istanbul, father of Uni versity of Denver Chancellor Caleb F. Gates Jr. ; in Denver.
Died. Colonel (Kentucky style) Daniel E. O'Sullivan, 88, onetime managing edi tor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, long time resident manager of famed Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby; in Louisville. He frequently boosted the Derby in verse ("Any Irishman who couldn't write poetry about a thorough bred horse ought to be chloroformed"), once said that TIME'S description of the Downs as "shabby" made him "Reach for his hip pocket."
* TIME'S British imitator (circ. about 100,000).
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