Monday, Dec. 26, 1949
Married. Heywood Hale ("Woodie") Broun, 31, onetime sportwriter (New York City's defunct PM and Star) turned actor (summer stock and Love Me Long), son of the late Columnist Heywood Broun, and Actress Jane Lloyd-Jones, in Woodstock, N.Y.
Married. Bill Holland, 40, husky Philadelphian who went from speed skating to auto racing, won this year's 500-mile classic at Indianapolis; and Ruth Dannie Asmussen, 22; in Miami.
Divorced. By Boyce ("Peggy") Schulze Hohenlohe, 28, daughter of Heiress (copper) Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle, stepdaughter of Diplomat Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr.: Alexander Hohenlohe, 31, prince and war refugee, who fled Poland with the Biddles in 1939, attempted suicide last September after his separation from Peggy; after ten years of marriage, two children; in Reno.
Divorced. Arnold Nelson Welles, 31, socialite son of Author-Diplomat Sumner Welles; by Adele Harman Welles, 30; after seven years of marriage, two sons; in Reno.
Died. Traicho Kostov, 52, ousted Communist Vice Premier of Bulgaria; in execution by hanging; after a Communist purge in Sofia.
Died. Brigadier General Arthur Vincent McDermott, 61, who as wartime head of the nation's biggest draft board (he called it "agony headquarters") put 900,000 New Yorkers into uniform; after long illness; in Manhattan.
Died. Sem Benelli, 72, Italy's on-again-off-again Fascist poet and playwright (The Jest), a leader with the late Luigi Pirandello in the modern Italian theater, veteran of Mussolini's 1935-36 march on Ethiopia (I Was in Africa); in Genoa.
Died. David Stanley Smith, 72, composer (1929--A Satire) and longtime (1920-40) dean of Yale's School of Music; in New Haven, Conn.
Died. Sidney Olcott, 76, pioneer movie director (From the Manger to the Cross), who helped guide film Newcomers Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino; in Hollywood.
Died. John Lenord Merrill, 83, cable tycoon (All American Cables & Radio, Inc., American Cable & Radio Corp.), who helped wire the two Americas together; in Manhattan.
Died. Bessie Gardner du Pont, 85, first wife (1887-1906) of Chemicals Millionaire Alfred I. du Pont, biographer (Du Pont de Nemours, 1933) of the Du Pont clan; at her home near Wilmington, Del.
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