Monday, Oct. 14, 1946

Married. Abby Rockefeller Milton, 42, society's "Golden Girl" of the mid-'20s, only daughter of John D. Rockefeller Jr.; and Dr. Irving Hotchkiss Pardee, 54, New York Neurological Society president; both for the second time; in Manhattan.

Married. Vic Oliver, 48, popular comedian of the British music halls, ex-husband of Sarah Churchill, Winston's comely cinemactress daughter; and Natalie Frances Conder, 27, his former secretary; he for the second time, she for the first; in London.

Married. Peggy Wood, 52, versatile, Brooklyn-born actress (Old Acquaintance, Blithe Spirit); and William Henry Walling, 51, Manhattan socialite-businessman; she for the second time, he for the third; in Stamford, Conn.

Divorced. (Francis) Xavier Cugat, 46, Spanish-born bandleader who made the U.S. rumba-constious; by Carmen Castillo Cugat, 40, aunt of Actress Margo; after 17 years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles.

Died. Per Albin Hansson, 60, onetime gooseherd who rose to the leadership of Sweden's Social Democratic Party, was for 14 years Prime Minister (since 1932), pursued a neutrality policy that kept Sweden out of World War II; of a heart attack; in Stockholm.

Died. Lady Brown (Lilian Alice Roussel), 63, explorer, author (Unknown Tribes; Uncharted Seas), whose expeditions in Central America discovered the Chucunaque Indian tribe in Panama and excavated the lost Mayan city of Lubaantun in British Honduras; after long illness; in Rye, Sussex, England.

Died. Berna Eli ("Barney") Oldfield, 68, daredevil of the dirt track at the dawn of the motor age, first auto racer to drive a mile a minute, whose name gave a U.S. generation a synonym for speed; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Died. Dr. Ignacy Moscicki, 76, onetime professor of electrochemistry and electrophysics, who in 1926 became President of Poland as a front man for the dictatorship of his longtime friend Marshal Pilsudski; in Versoix, Switzerland. After Pilsudski's death in 1935, Moscicki stayed on as President until the Nazi conquest in 1939 sent him into exile and political retirement.

Died. Gifford Pinchot, 81, opinionated oldtime Progressive Republican, pioneer conservationist and Forestry chief under McKInley, Roosevelt I and Taft (1898-1910), who helped found the Bull Moose Party in 1912 and, despite opposition by G.O.P. bosses, was twice elected Pennsylvania's governor (1923-27, 1931-35); of leukemia; in Manhattan.

Died. Lucy Wheelock, 87, U.S. pioneer in kindergarten education, for over half a century one of its most vigorous exponents, founder of the Wheelock College in Brookline, Mass, for the training of kindergarten teachers, onetime president of the International Kindergarten Union; in Boston.

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