Monday, Oct. 21, 1946
Married. Edith Kingdon Gould, 25, socialite, linguist (five), ex-child poetess, harpist, actress (Agatha Christie's Hidden Horizon), former lieutenant (j.g.) in the WAVES, great granddaughter of the late railroad tycoon Jay Gould, and daughter of the late financier Kingdon Gould; and Guy Martin, 34, wartime Navy lieutenant; both for the first time; in Manhattan.
Married. Jean Browne Wallace, 26, only daughter of Henry A. Wallace, ex-Secretary of Commerce, former Secretary of Agriculture (1933-40), onetime Vice President of the United States (1941-45); and Wallace Leslie Douglas, 31, wartime lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy; both for the first time; in Washington.
Married. Major General Elwood Richard ("Pete") Quesada, 42, Army Air Forces hero who (in 1929) served as relief pilot of the plane Question Mark on its spectacular endurance flight (nearly seven days aloft), was the wartime commanding general of the Ninth Fighter Command in England, flew 86 combat missions, now heads the Tactical Air Command; and Kate Davis Pulitzer Putnam, . 29, granddaughter of the late great Publisher Joseph Pulitzer and daughter of St. Louis Post-Dispatch Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr.; she for the second time, he for the first; in Bar Harbor, Me.
Married. William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw, 80, former Georgia Congressman (1919-27), 1932 presidential candidate of the Prohibition Party ("I got drunk when I was 16 . . . have been ashamed ever since") ; and Mrs. Lily Galloway, 60, California temperance leader; both for the second time; in Columbus, Ga. Cried ecstatic Mrs. Galloway: "Brother Willie's life is more like the Sermon on the Mount . . . than any other man I've known." Chuckled the groom: "I'm blending romance with religion."
Died. Catherine Lenihan O'Dwyer, 54, Manhattan-born wife of William O'Dwyer, New York City's, mayor; after long illness; in Manhattan.
Died. Baroness Eugene ("Kitty") de Rothschild, 61, famed beauty of pre-World War I Vienna's glittering court society, close friend of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, whose titled third husband is a member of the Austrian branch of the international banking family; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Glen Cove, L.I.
Died. General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, 63, tough, leathery wartime commander of the U.S. forces in the China-Burma-India Theater during the first grim two years of the war; of a liver ailment; in San Francisco (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).
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