Monday, Dec. 23, 1946
Married. Lord Burghley, 41, chairman of the British Olympic Association, who won the 400-meter hurdles in the 1928 Olympics, became Bermuda's youngest Governor (1943-45); and Diana Forbes, 35; both for the second time; in London.
Married. Roscoe Turner, 51, gaudy, wax-mustachioed president of the Turner Aeronautical Corp. of Indianapolis, and one of the nation's most spectacular speed flyers of the last decade; and Margaret Madonna Miller, 29; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan.
Married. Dr. Chengting T. Wang, 64, onetime Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. (1936-38), a Yale-educated leader of China's revolution, who in 1912 helped organize its first provisional government, was a member of its first cabinet; and Dorothy A. Liu; both for the second time; in Shanghai.
Divorced. The Duke of Westminster, 67, one of Britain's wealthiest peers and most fabulous playboys, by his third duchess, the former Loelia Ponsonby, 44; after 16 years of marriage (ten of separation); no children; in London.
Died. Walter Perry ("Big Train") Johnson, 59, longtime fireball pitcher for the Washington Senators (1907-27), all-time strike-out king (3,497), rated by many as baseball's greatest hurler; of a brain tumor; in Washington.
Died. William V. ("Big Bill") Dwyer, 63, onetime "king of the bootleggers," who in Prohibition days commanded a fleet of 20 rum-runners, controlled the entry of liquor into New York Harbor; of a heart attack; in Belle Harbor, Queens. After spending "a little vacation" in Atlanta's Federal Penitentiary (he was convicted of bootlegging in 1926), he tried to rebuild his crumbled fortune through sports promoting, bought the N.Y. Americans hockey team, introduced professional hockey to Manhattan, headed Miami's famed Gables Racing Association.
Died. Lewis J. Valentine. 64, New York City's hard-hitting former Police Commissioner (1934-45), who rose from cop-on-the-beat to head the nation's largest city police force, gave New York's slot-machine gangs, gambling rings, white slavers, crooked politicos some of the toughest years they had ever known; after long illness; in Brooklyn.
Died. Josiah William Bailey, 73, Baptist-bred U.S. Senator from North Carolina (since 1931), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, fervid champion of States' Rights and one of the most caustic of the anti-New Deal Southern Democrats, onetime editor of the Baptist Biblical Recorder; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Raleigh, N.C.
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