Monday, Sep. 29, 1947
Born. To George Howard Earle, 56, stocky, outspoken ex-Governor of Pennsylvania, ex-U.S. Minister to Austria and Bulgaria, and second wife Jacqueline Marthe Jermine Sacre Earle, 25, brunette Belgian beauty whom he married in Turkey two years ago: a daughter (her first child, his fifth); in Philadelphia. Name: Jacqueline. Weight: 7 Ibs. 10 oz.
Married. Francisco ("Pancho") Segura, 26, excitable Ecuadorian tennist, whose two-handed technique made him the first South American to win the U.S. Indoor Singles championship (1946); and Virginia Spencer Smith, 20, blonde Forest Hills, N.Y. tennis fan; in Manhattan.
Married. Amon G. Carter, 68, bumptious, oil-rich publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram; and Minnie Meacham Smith, 45, Fort Worth department-store heiress; he for the third time, she for the second; in Fort Worth.
Divorced. Igor ("Gigi") Cassini, 32, pompadoured Hearst society gossipist ("Cholly Knickerbocker"); by pretty, high-styled Austine McDonnell Cassini, 27, Washington Times-Herald gossipist ("These Charming People"); after 7 1/2 years, no children; in Carson City, Nev.
Divorced. Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay Bradstreet Whitaker, 33, who once suffered national tabloid fame as the "sterilized heiress"; by her third husband, Mining Operator John Whitaker, 56; after six years; in Reno. Heiress Ann (daughter of Inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt) in 1936 filed a lurid suit (eventually dropped) charging that her mother had had her illegally sterilized.
Died. Mary Blair, 52, onetime Broadway actress, onetime wife of Litterateur Edmund Wilson (the first of his four); of tuberculosis; in Pittsburgh. Leading lady in several Eugene O'Neill plays, she created a furore in 1924 when, as Negro Actor Paul Robeson's play-wife in All God's Chillun Got Wings, she nightly kissed his hand onstage.
Died. Howard Myers, 54, publisher of ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, for nearly three decades an outstanding editorial crusader for prefabrication and spacious, airy housing; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan.
Died. Fiorello H. LaGuardia, 64, New York City's fiery "Little Flower"; of cancer; in The Bronx.
Died. Harry Carey, 69, veteran cowboy star of silent movies; of coronary thrombosis; in Los Angeles. Weather-beaten Carey made a Hollywood comeback as a character actor, played in the 1941 Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Ah Wilderness!
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