Monday, Jul. 04, 1949
Married. Princess Cecilia of Germany, 31, daughter of German ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Hohenzollern, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria; and Clyde Harris, 31, Texas interior decorator, onetime Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Officer (with the U.S.M.G. in Darmstadt); in a 1,000-year-old castle near Hechingen, Germany. Blonde Princess Cecilia, once (1936) rumored to be a possible bride for Britain's Edward VIII, will live with her husband in an Amarillo, Tex. apartment.
Married. Fuller Warren, 43, Florida's camera-conscious, "cracker boy" Governor; and Barbara Manning, 23, blonde California secretary; he for the third time; in Los Angeles.
Died. Joe Crosson, 45, veteran bush pilot, "Troubleshooter of the Arctic"; of a heart attack; in Seattle. Flying by the seat of his pants over the uncharted Northland, Crosson became famed for his mercy trips (in a 1931 diphtheria epidemic he took antitoxin to Point Barrow, repeated the feat five years later during a scarlet fever epidemic in Fairbanks).
Died. Count Jacques Edouard de Sieyes, 58, French diplomat (General de Gaulle's personal wartime representative in the U.S.) and business executive (Patou perfume); by drowning in the River Seine, Paris; reportedly by his own hand, because of financial worries.
Died. Kim Koo, 73, head of Korea's right-wing Independence Party; by assassination (he was shot by a Korean army lieutenant); in Seoul, Korea (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Died. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, 74, president (1916-43) and chancellor (since 1943) of Stanford University; Secretary of the Interior in the Hoover Cabinet, 1929-33, president of the A.M.A. (1923-24); of a heart ailment; in Stanford, Calif.
Died. Alejandro Lerroux, 85, five times Radical Party Premier of turbulent Republican Spain;* and lifelong antimonarchist; in Madrid, where he returned under Franco amnesty in 1947.
Died. Themistocles Sophoulis, ninetyish, Premier of Greece since 1947; of a stroke; in Athens (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Died. George Franklin Slosson, 95, for half a century after the Civil War one of the world's top billiard players who won, with his 50-c- cue, six international titles between 1877 and 1908; in Boston.
*The Second Spanish Republic lasted from April 1931 (abdication of King Alfonso XIII), until March 28, 1939 (surrender of Madrid to General Franco).
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