Monday, Sep. 02, 1946
Married. Olivia de Havilland, 30, British-born cinemactress (Anthony Adverse, Captain Blood), sister of Cinemactress Joan Fontaine; and Marcus Goodrich, 48, screen writer, novelist (bestseller Delilah); she for the first time, he for the fifth; in Wilton, Conn.
Died. William H. Price, 27, wartime lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, TIME & LIFE correspondent in Egypt; in a plane crash; near Ismailia, Egypt.
Died. John Morgan ("Rags") Ragland, 40, onetime truck driver and burlesque gagster who hit the big time in Broadway's Panama Hattie, became filmdom's genial portrayer of comic morons (Du Barry Was a Lady, Anchors Aweigh, Her Highness and the Bellboy); of uremic poisoning; in Hollywood.
Died. Fielding Harris ("Hurry Up") Yost, 75, versatile grand old man of football, inventor of many a dazzling play, developer of the fake place kick, canny director of shifty gridiron maneuver built around "a punt, a pass and a prayer"; longtime (1901-27) University of Michigan coach and athletic director (1921-41) whose point-a-minute teams made football history during the first five years of the century; of a gall-bladder ailment; in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Died. James Clark McReynolds, 84, grim, gruff, retired former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. (1914-41), trustbusting Assistant Attorney General under Theodore Roosevelt (1903-07) and Attorney General under Woodrow Wilson (1913-14), stout opponent of the New Deal and its freewheeling constitutional interpretations; of a gastrointestinal condition; in Washington.
Died. The Marquis Jules Philippe Felix Albert de Dion, 90, former "kingpin dude" of Parisian society who forsook boulevard gaieties in the '90s to become a pioneer automobile manufacturer, founder of the famed Automobile Club of France; in Paris.
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