Monday, Oct. 13, 1947
Born. To Count Court von Haugwitz-Reventlow, 52, and his second heiress-wife, Margaret Drayton Reventlow, 31 (great-granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor): a son, her first, his second (his first was by Heiress Barbara Hutton); in Newport, R.I. Name: Richard Court. Weight: 7 lbs. 15 oz.
Divorced. Yehudi Menuhin, 31, ex-boy prodigy of the violin, a top adult virtuoso; by Nola Ruby Nicholas Menuhin, 28, daughter of an Australian headache-pill manufacturer; after nine years, two children; in Carson City, Nev.
Died. Olive Borden, 40, briefly famed screen beauty of the '20s; of double pneumonia and complications; in a Los Angeles mission for destitute women, where she had been a haggard, hard-drinking off-&-on guest for three years.
Died. Will Harbut, 62, longtime groom and constant companion to his great & good friend Man o'War, 30; of a heart ailment; near Lexington, Ky. At Faraway Farm, Harbut showed the horse to nearly 1,000,000 visitors in 16 years, proudly called him "the mostest hoss in the world."
Died. Gregorio Martinez Sierra, 66, prolific Spanish novelist-playwright, best known abroad for his Cradle Song (Eva Le Gallienne starred in it during the 1926-27 Broadway season); of cancer; in Madrid, 15 days after ending more than a decade of self-imposed exile.
Died. Charles Francis ("Pop") Adams,* 70, millionaire president of the First National chain of grocery stores, co-founder of the Boston Bruins hockey team, organizer of the Suffolk Downs rare track; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston.
Died. William Armstrong Fairburn, 70, eccentric recluse, president of the Diamond Match Co. since 1915--five years after he had perfected a nonpoisonous match; in Center Lovell, Me.
Died. James Gamble Rogers, 80, architect of the old school, whose modern masterwork is Manhattan's enormous Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, and whose quainter works include many college buildings (one Rogers building at Yale is Gothic on one side, Georgian on the other); in his Medical Center.
Died. Thomas Horatio Nelson, fourth Earl Nelson, 89, great-great-nephew of the hero of Trafalgar; in Salisbury, England. In 1806 a grateful Parliament voted the Nelson family a -L-5,000 annuity; in 1946 the Labor Government decided that the nation's debt had been paid: the annuity will stop with the death of Thomas' brother, Edward Agar Horatio, 87.
*Not to be confused with ex-Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, no kin
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