Monday, Feb. 13, 1950
Born. To Ingrid Bergman, 34, Swedish-born cinemactress (Joan of Arc), wife of Los Angeles Physician Dr. Peter Lindstrom, and Italian Director Roberto (Open City) Rossellini, 43: her second child, first son, his third child, third son; in Rome. Name: Roberto Ingmar. Weight: 7 Ibs. 14 oz. (see CINEMA).
Married. David Michael Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven, 30; and Socialite Romaine Dahlgren Pierce ("Toodie") Simpson, 26; she for the second time; in Washington (see PEOPLE).
Married. Jean Stafford, 34, novelist (Boston Adventure, The Mountain Lion) ; and Oliver Jensen, 35, LIFE staff writer; both for the second time (her first husband was Poet Robert Lowell); in Manhattan.
Died. Sidney Arthur ("Sid") Field, 45, bulb-nosed British comic who soared to fame in wartime revues (Strike a New Note, Strike It Again); in Richmond, Surrey. Disdaining the fast gag, Field mixed the pathetic and the preposterous into an art reminiscent of Chaplin's, but with a slapdash gusto of his own.
Died. Sir Ahmed Ibn Al Jabir Al Subah, 64, oil-rich ruler of the Arab sheikdom of Kuwait, near the head of the Persian Gulf; of a heart attack; in his capital, Al Kuwait.
Died. Montagu Collet Norman, Baron Norman of St. Clere, 78, fox-bearded "Sphinx of Threadneedle Street," who as Governor of the Bank of England (1920-44) ruled the Empire's finances with a skilled and autocratic hand; in London. Attempting to rebuild the international monetary structure shattered by World War I, Norman, with the approval of Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, pushed Britain back onto the gold standard in 1925, was bitterly criticized when the worldwide breakdown forced her off again in 1931. When he finally stepped down, he had held office longer than any other Governor in the Bank's 256-year history.
Died. Karl Seitz, 80, greybeard of Austrian socialism, first president (1918-19) of the newborn Austrian Republic's national assembly, onetime Burgomaster of Vienna (1923-34); in Vienna. Ousted from office and thrown into jail by the Dollfuss regime in 1934, Seitz was released after ten months, but did not return to political life until 1945. He spent the last year of the war in Nazi concentration camps.
Died. William ("Billy") Gould, 81, oldtime vaudeville star, once a $3,500-a-week performer at Oscar Hammerstein's Victoria Music Hall, later a $22.77-a-week WPA hand; in Manhattan.
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