Monday, Nov. 01, 1948
Born. To Emily Hahn ("Micky") Boxer, 43, best-selling authoress (The Soong Sisters, China To Me), and Major Charles Boxer, 44, Britain's Hong Kong intelligence chief in 1941, now a professor of Portuguese literature at King's College, University of London: their second child, a girl (their first, Carola, according to Author Hahn, was born illegitimately in 1941); in Manhattan. Name: Amanda. Weight: 4 Lbs. 14 oz.
Married. Sabu Dastagir, 24, chesty, India-born cinemactor (Elephant Boy, Black Narcissus), wartime 6-24 tailgunner (he won the D.F.C. in 1945); and Marilyn Cooper, 20, blonde cinema bit player; in Los Angeles.
Died. Elissa Landi, 43, novel-writing stage & screen actress (Count of Monte Cristo, Sign of the Cross), reputedly the granddaughter of Austria's Empress Elizabeth; of cancer; in Kingston, N.Y.
Died. Dr. Alexander Guerry, 58, aggressive vice chancellor (president) of the University of the South (Sewanee), longtime leading Southern educator (president of the University of Chattanooga, 1929-38; president of the Southern University Conference, 1946); of coronary thrombosis; in Knoxville.
Died. Field Marshal Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch, 67, onetime commander in chief of the German army (1938-41); of coronary thrombosis; in Hamburg, Germany, where he awaited trial as a war criminal. Son of a Prussian cavalry general, Brauchitsch increased the Wehrmacht's motorized divisions from two to six, occupied the Sudetenland, led the 18-day blitz of Poland, took Norway, Belgium, Holland, France, Yugoslavia and Greece.
Died. Augustus Cardinal Hlond, 67, Roman Catholic primate of Poland; of pneumonia; in Warsaw (see RELIGION).
Died. Franz Lehar, 78, operetta composer; of cancer and complications; in Bad Ischl, Austria (see Music).
Died. Wilfred Meynell, 95, poet, essayist, discoverer of drug-addict Poet Francis Thompson; in Pulborough, England. With his poet-wife, the late Alice Meynell, he founded and for twelve years edited the literary review Merry England. In 1888, he received some verses written on blue sugar-bag paper by the starving Thompson, printed the contributions, rescued and cared for the poet for 19 years.
Died. Professor Ludwig Christian Alexander Karlovich Martens, Soviet engineer and onetime party bigwig, "ambassador" to the U.S. of the unrecognized Bolshevik government (from 1919 to 1921); of unexplained causes; in Moscow.
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