Monday, May. 30, 1949
Married. Ann Todd, 39, high-strung blonde British cinemactress (The Seventh Veil, One Woman's Story"); and David Lean, 41, high-strung British cinema director (Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, One Woman's Story*); each for the third time; in London.
Divorced. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 34, third son of the late President, newly elected Representative from Manhattan's 20th Congressional District (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS); by Ethel du Pont Roosevelt, 33, socialite heiress to a Du Pont chemical fortune; after almost twelve years of marriage, two children; in Minden, Nev.
Died. Thomas O. Heggen, 29, Iowa-born Navy veteran who turned his wartime experience in the Pacific into the bestselling (more than 850,000 copies) novel Mister Roberts, collaborated with Joshua (South Pacific) Logan to turn it into a Broadway smash hit; by drowning in his bathtub after taking sleeping pills; in Manhattan.
Died. James Vincent Forrestal, 57, onetime Secretary of the Navy (1944-47) and the nation's first Secretary of Defense (1947-49); by jumping from a 16th-floor window of the Bethesda, Md. Naval Hospital (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).
Died. Archbishop Damaskinos (born Dimetrios Papandreou), 58, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) white-bearded Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church; after a heart attack; in Psychico, Greece. A onetime army private (in the 1912 Balkan War) an amateur wrestler, Damaskinos entered the priesthood in 1917, was elected Archbishop in 1938 but was exiled to a monastery by Dictator John Metaxas. He returned as Archbishop three years later, vigorously opposed the Nazi-led occupation (he sheltered Athens' Jews, offered himself as a hostage, went to the Germans carrying a rope and dared them to hang him). As regent (1945-46) and short-time Premier (two weeks in 1945), Damaskinos tried to make peace between the left-wing EAM and right-wing Monarchists, retired when a plebiscite recalled the late King George II.
Died. James Truslow Adams,/- 70, Brooklyn-born scholar and historian, winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize in History for The Founding of New England, author of more than 20 volumes on the U.S. (The Epic of America, 1931) and Britain (Building the British Empire, 1938); in Southport, Conn.
* Originally entitled The Passionate Friends
(from H. G. Wells's novel--see CINEMA). After
the British premiere, Todd and Lean were named
corespondents in a round-robin divorce suit
brought by their respective spouses.
/- No kin to the famed Adams family of New
England.
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