Monday, Aug. 16, 1948
Married. Ida Lupino, 30, high-strung Hollywood specialist in neurotic roles; and Collier Young, 39, Columbia studio executive; each for the second time; in La Jolla, Calif.
Marriage Revealed. Louis Untermeyer, 62, perennial poetaster and anthologist, now editorial consultant for Decca Records; and Bryna Ivens, 39, fiction editor of Seventeen magazine; he for the fourth time, she for the second; near Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Died. Cyril Walker, 56, wispy, hard-drinking golf professional, who beat out Bobby Jones to win the U.S. Open Championship in 1924; of pleural pneumonia; in a Hackensack, N.J. jail cell, where he had gone for shelter. After winning the Open, English-born Walker gradually drank himself out of big-time competition, at one time worked as a caddy, ended up a dishwasher.
Died. Frederick Walker Baldwin, 66, pioneer Canadian airman, first British Empire subject to fly an airplane (March 12, 1908), onetime associate of Inventor Alexander Graham Bell; of a heart attack; in Baddeck, N.S.
Died. Rosika Schwimmer, 70, Hungarian-born women's suffrage pioneer and pacifist, dominant figure behind Henry Ford's ill-starred "Peace Ship" expedition to Europe in 1915; in Manhattan. Convinced that War I could be ended by a meeting of peace pilgrims, she induced Ford to head the U.S. delegation, pledged to "getting the boys out of the trenches by Christmas." In 1929 she was denied citizenship by the U.S. Supreme Court because she refused to say that she would bear arms in defense of the U.S.*
Died. Tommy Ryan (real name: Joseph Youngs), 78, prizefighter of the skin-tight glove era, who won fame in 1891 when he knocked out Danny Needham in the 76th round, retired as middleweight champion of the world in 1907; in Los Angeles.
Died. Francis Butler Loomis, 87, turn-of-the-century U.S. diplomat, in Burlingame, Calif. As Minister to Venezuela, he played a major part in opening up Latin America to U.S. trade; later, as Acting Secretary of State, he negotiated the acquisition of the Panama Canal Zone.
Died. Enrico Cardinal Sibilia, 87, longtime Papal Nuncio to Austria (1923-35), oldest member of the College of Cardinals; in Anagni, Italy. His death created the 11th vacancy in the College in the past two years.
*In 1946 the court reversed itself on the arms-bearing principle, but she never reapplied.
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