Monday, Jul. 07, 1947
Born. To Ruth Elizabeth ("Bazy") McCormick Miller, 26, favorite niece of Uncle Robert McCormick and heiress apparent to his Chicago Tribune empire; and Maxwell Peter Miller Jr., 28: their second child, first son; in Chicago. Name: Mark McCormick (for her maternal grandfather, the late Mark Hanna). Weight: 8 Ibs., 6 oz.
Married. Betty McLean Crump, 21, pretty granddaughter of Memphis' longtime political boss; and Frank Pidgeon Jr., 27, well-heeled son of a Tennessee ironmaker; in Memphis.
Married. Henry Luce III, 22, son of the editor of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE; and Patricia Livingston Potter, 20, daughter of John S. Potter, a Bank of China director, who flew from Shanghai for the ceremony; at the home of Mrs. Lila Tyng, the bridegroom's mother, in Gladstone, N.J.
Married. Lloyd Bowers Taft, 24, third of Senator Robert A. Taft's four sons; and Virginia Stone, 22; in St. Joseph, Mich., while C.I.O. pickets tramped as close to the church as they could get, denouncing father Taft's new labor act.
Married. Count Luis de Figueros, 28, one of Spain's richest men (land); and Mary Aline Griffith, 26, daughter of a Pearl River (N.Y.) insurance salesman; in Madrid, where they met while she was a wartime employee of the U.S. embassy.
Married. Henry Merritt Wriston, 58, Brown University's president; and Marguerite Woodworth, 51, dean of women at Oberlin College; he for the second time, she for the first; in Hingham, Mass.
Died. Walter Bertheau Weisenburger, 59, executive vice president (top full-time official) of the National Association of Manufacturers; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bronxville, N.Y.
Died. Lucius Boomer, 68, boss of Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria; of a heart ailment; in Hamar, Norway, where he was vacationing (see BUSINESS).
Died. Richard Bedford Bennett, Viscount Bennett of Calgary, 76, onetime (1930-35) Conservative Prime Minister of Canada; at his home in Surrey, England.
Died. William Boardman Porter, 81, for 35 years skipper of the late J. P. Morgan's fabulous yachts, Corsair III and Corsair IV, a job that made him one of the world's best paid sea captains; in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Died. Albert Shaw, 89, founder (1891) and editor for 45 years of the late Review of Reviews; in Manhattan.
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