Monday, Oct. 27, 1947
Married. Katherine Ames Byrd, 23, second of three daughters of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd; and Robert Garnett Breyer, 29, strapping ex-Army major employed in an automobile agency; in Boston.
Married. Yehudi Menuhin, 31, violin virtuoso; and British Ballerina Diana Gould, 33, daughter of a concert pianist, stepdaughter of a British admiral; he for the second time, she for the first; 17 days after his first divorced him; in London.*
Married. Henry John ("Jack") Heinz II, 39, president of H. J. ("57 Varieties") Heinz Co. (and grandson of the founder); and Jane Ewing Jenney, thirtyish, socialite divorcee; both for the second time; in Mt. Kisco, N.Y.
Married. Congressman John Grain Kunkel, 49, shy darling of Dauphin County, Pa. Republican women, and brave host to some 800 of them at an annual squealy luncheon (TIME, May 19); and Katherine Smoot Kunkel, fortyish, widow of a Kunkel cousin; he for the first time, she for the second; in Arlington, Va.
Died. Gitz Rice, 56, oldtime vaudevillian, composer of World War I song hits Dear Old Pal of Mine and Mademoiselle from Armentieres ("adapted" from an old French folk tune); of chronic bronchitis; in Manhattan.
Died. John Joseph ("Jack") Dunne, 57, beer baron of the Dry Decade; during an operation; in Jersey City. Dunne kept a number of giant Jersey breweries running during Prohibition, bootlegged his way to a $15 million fortune, discreetly retired in 1930 when gangstering got too hot for him, went bankrupt eleven years later.
Died. John Halliday, 67, suave, well-tailored fixture of stage & screen drawing rooms for some 27 years (The Circle, The Spider, Jealousy, Tovarich); of a heart ailment; in Honolulu.
Died. Arthur Mastick Hyde, 70, tart-tongued Secretary of Agriculture under Hoover (1929-33), second Republican Governor of Missouri (1921-25), lifelong Prohibitionist; of cancer; in Manhattan.
Died. H. Estelle Rornaine Manville, 73, socialite widow of Asbestos King H. Edward Manville; following a brain operation; in New Rochelle, N.Y. Widow Manville, enormously proud of daughter Estelle, who married the King of Sweden's nephew, Count Folke Bernadotte, was not at all proud of nephew Tommy Manville, who was having wife-trouble as usual last week (with No. 8).
*For other news of Violinist Menuhin, see Music.
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