Monday, Nov. 22, 1948
Born. To Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, 22, and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 27: their first child, a son; in Buckingham Palace, London. Weight:, 7 Ibs. 6 oz. Name: unannounced.
Born. To Thomas Dudley ("Tommy") Harmon, 29, onetime A.A.F. pilot and All-America halfback (Michigan, 1939-40); and Elyse Knox Harmon, 30; their second child, second daughter; in Burbank, Calif. Name: Kelly Jean. Weight: 7 Ib. 11 1/2 oz.
Died. Roark Bradford, 52, Tennessee-born author (Ol' Man Adams an' His Chillun' was dramatized as The Green Pastures) who specialized in Negro dialect stories; of amoebiasis (contracted in World War II); in New Orleans.
Died. Genevieve Taggard, 53, much-anthologized poetess (For Eager Lovers, Calling Western Union) and biographer (The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson); of uremia; in Manhattan. Miss Taggard scored an early success with slight lyrics, later slipped when she tried to weight her verses with social significance.
Died. Edgar ("Slow Burn") Kennedy, 58, bald, veteran cinema comic (henpecked star of The Average Man two-reelers); of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif.
Died. Flaude Cleveland, 67, spinster bank president (Addison State Bank); in Addison, Mich. Daughter of a saloonkeeper, before she was seven she had a paper route. She rose to shoeshine girl in a barbershop, became a bank janitor in 1907, after 22 years wound up as bank president.
Died. Dr. Julius Curtius, 71, onetime Foreign Minister (1929-31) of Germany's Weimar Republic, who negotiated the Allied evacuation of the Rhineland in 1929; of arteriosclerosis; in Heidelberg, Germany.
Died. Fred Niblo, 74, pioneer movie director (Ben Hur, Blood and Sand) and co-founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences; of pneumonia; in New Orleans.
Died. Alexander Vasilievich Vishnevsky, 74, leading Soviet surgeon, holder of the Stalin Prize (for brilliant work in the treatment of wounds and shock) and the Order of Lenin; in Moscow.
Died. Umberto Giordano, 81, Italian composer who scored a one-shot success at 28 with his melodramatic opera of the French Revolution, Andrea Chenier; of a heart ailment; in Milan, Italy. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Fascist revolution, in 1932, Mussolini ordered him to compose a special tune.
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