Monday, Mar. 24, 1947
Born. To Sari Gabor Hilton, 26, "Miss Hungary" of 1936, and Conrad Nicholson Hilton, 59, hotel magnate: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Constance Francesca. Weight: 8 lbs. 5 oz.
Ten months ago, Sari told tabloid readers that she11) had once been doped into "continuous slumber" for six months, and 2) was going to sue Hilton for divorce, $10 million.
Born. To Errol Leslie Flynn, 37, swashbuckler of cinema, cafe and courtroom, and Nora Eddington Flynn, 23: their second daughter, his third child (he has a son by his former wife, Cinemactress Lili Damita); in Burbank, Calif. Name: Rory. Weight: 8 lbs. 2 oz.
Died. Prince Marcantonio Colonna, 66, Prince Assistant to the Pontifical Throne (highest honorary office a Catholic layman can hold at the Vatican court), head of one of the oldest, most powerful families of Italy's Black-bluebloods; after long illness; in Rome.
Died. Major General Frank Parker, 74, who rose from a regimental command to lead the famed First Division in its final War I campaign; peacetime commanding general of the Sixth Corps Area and the Philippine Department; in Chicago.
Died. Winston Churchill, 75, U.S. author (no kin to the famed Briton /-) of once best-selling historical novels (Richard Carvel, The Crisis), to which he abruptly wrote an end in 1917 (he wrote one other book in 1940, The Uncharted Way, a tract on religious philosophy): in Winter Park, Fla.
Died. William George Tyrrell, first Baron of Avon, 80, president of the Board of Censors of Britain's booming film industry, onetime (1928-34) British Ambassador to France; in London.
Died. Dr. Paul Mazzuri, 82, associate of Walter Reed in the 1900 Cuban experiments that isolated the yellow fever carrier; in New Orleans. As physician to volunteers who submitted to infection, Dr. Mazzuri succeeded in pulling all twelve patients through with a treatment of champagne, strong purgatives, sponge baths, quiet.
Died. Walter S. Goodland, 84, governor of Wisconsin, oldest state governor in the nation's history; in Madison (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).
*Papal supporters, as distinguished from the White nobility, or royalist adherents. /- Early in their careers the two Churchills agreed that one should alter his name, to avoid confusion. The Englishman consented to make the change because the American was three years older and far more famous at the time, has signed his writings Winston S. Churchill ever since.
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