Monday, Jan. 19, 1948
Born. To Lieut. Zharko Broz, 22, son of Marshal Josip (Tito) Broz of Yugoslavia and his Russian-born wife: a son. Name: withheld by the censorship on Tito's family life. Weight: 10 lbs.
Born. To Van Johnson, 32, pink-haired cinemactor; and Eve Abbott Wynn Johnson, 31, ex-wife but still good friend of Van's good friend, Actor Keenan Wynn; a daughter, his first child, her third; in Los Angeles. Name: Schuyler Van. Weight: 8 lbs. 6 oz.
Born. To James Roosevelt, 40, and Romelle Schneider Roosevelt, 32, his second wife: their first daughter, third child (he also has a son and daughter by first wife Betsey Gushing, now Mrs. John Hay Whitney); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Anna Eleanor (after her paternal grandmother). Weight: 8 lbs. 14 oz.
Divorced. David Oliver Selznick, 45, Hollywood producer (Gone With the Wind); by Irene Mayer Selznick, 39, Broadway producer (A Streetcar Named Desire), younger daughter of Hollywood Producer Louis B. (MGM) Mayer; after 17 years of marriage, two sons, 2 1/2 years' separation; in Los Angeles.
Died. Richard Allen Knight, 49, cafe socialite, once brilliant lawyer (disbarred); in Manhattan. Great-headed Texan Knight, whose early success (1928 earnings: $80,000) began boring him into his cups, embarked on a series of well-publicized didos (most famed: a headstand at the 1939 opening of the Metropolitan Opera).
Died. Richard Tauber, 55, bemonocled Austrian-born tenor, top-ranking specialist in light-wines-&-waltzing schmalzing; of a lung abscess; in London. Tenor Tauber skipped from opera to Lehar operettas in the early '20s, rode lightly to European fame on such frothy flotsam as The Merry Widow, sang Yours Is My Heart Alone so many times (about 15,000) that it became a Tauber trademark.
Died. Reginald K. Pierson, 56, chief aircraft designer for Vickers Armstrongs, Ltd., creator of the Wellington bomber, one of Britain's few offensive weapons early in World War II; after long illness; in Cranleigh, Surrey, England.
Died. Albert Mussey Johnson, 75, retired insurance executive, grubstaker of "Death Valley Scotty" and his legend of a fabulous gold mine; after an operation; in Los Angeles. Johnson met Desert Rat Scott in 1904, thereafter kept him supplied with enough money to maintain--for 26 years--the hoax of a private bonanza. Johnson built Scotty a $3,000,000 castle in the '30s, revealed in 1941 that he had also "lent" him $500,000 over three decades. Chuckled Johnson: "He paid me back in laughs."
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