Monday, Apr. 12, 1948
Born. To Captain John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, A.U.S., 25, son of the president-elect of Columbia University, and Barbara Jean Thompson Eisenhower, 21: their first child (and Ike's first grandchild --see PEOPLE), a son; at West Point, N.Y. Name: Dwight David II. Weight: 8 lbs. 15 oz.
Born. To Jackie Coogan, 33, Hollywood's No. 1 baby bright-eyes of the '20s (now co-owner of a small movie studio), and third wife Ann McCormack Coogan, 23, ex-nightclub singer: their first child, his second, a daughter; in Glendale, Calif. Name: Joann Dolliver. Weight: 8 lbs. 3 oz.
Born. To William Samuel Paley, 46, well-tailored board chairman and principal stockholder of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and Barbara Gushing Mortimer Paley, 31, perennially best-dressed daughter of the late, great brain surgeon Harvey Gushing, sister of Betsey Gushing Roosevelt Whitney and Mary Gushing Astor: their first child, his third,* her third, a son; in Manhattan. Name: William Gushing. Weight: 6 lbs.
Married. Kate ("Klondike Kate") Rockwell Matson, 68, onetime "Belle of the Yukon," famed dance-hall favorite of gold-rush days; and William L. Van Duren, an accountant and friend of 19 years' standing; she for the third time, he for the second; in Vancouver, Wash.
Divorced. William Randolph Hearst Jr., 41, most capable of the five not-so-capable Hearst boys, and publisher of the New York Journal-American; by second wife Lorelle McCarver Swisher Moore Hearst, 39, his onetime women's editor, a onetime Follies girl; after 15 years of marriage, no children; in Gooding, Idaho.
Died. Abby Greene Aldrich Rockefeller, 73, publicity-hating, art-loving (she was a co-founder of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art), wife of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Daughter of Rhode Island's Nelson Aldrich, one of the richest men to serve in the U.S. Senate, she married John D.'s only son in 1901, devoted her private life to philanthropy and the strict upbringing of their six children.
Died. Maurice C. Latta, 78, White House Executive Clerk and its oldest employee (for every Administration since McKinley's); of a heart ailment; in Bethesda, Md. A dour, studiously anonymous "indispensable," "Judge" Latta bossed the more than 200 White House Administration employees. As official messenger, he was privileged to interrupt the U.S. legislature--with the words "I am directed by the President of the United States to deliver a message in writing."
*His first two were adopted.
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