Monday, Aug. 28, 1950
Married. Princess Alix, 20, daughter of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg; and Prince Antoine de Ligne, 25, Belgian air force captain, son of the Belgian ambassador to India; in Luxembourg.
Married. Samuel Goldwyn Jr., 23; and Jennifer Howard, 24, daughter of the late playwright Sidney Coe Howard (They Knew What They Wanted); he for the first time, she for the second; in Berkeley, Calif.
Divorced. By Rosa Melba Ponselle, 53, longtime (1918-37) Metropolitan Opera diva: Carle Andrew Jackson, 45, son of Howard Wilkinson Jackson, onetime mayor of Baltimore; after 13 years of marriage, no children; in Baltimore.
Died. Christopher Smith Reynolds, 17, only son of Torch Singer Libby Holman and Tobacco Heir Zachary Smith Reynolds, and Steven Rice Wasserman, 17, son of Philadelphia Financier William Stix Wasserman; of injuries after a fall, while trying to scale the craggy east face of California's Mt. Whitney (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).
Died. Saw Ba U Gyi, 46, leader of Burma's Karen rebels; trapped and shot by government soldiers; in a Burmese village near the Siam border (see WAR IN ASIA).
Died. Julien Lahaut, 65, boss of Belgium's Communists, deputy in Parliament since 1937 (TIME, Aug. 21); shot and killed by unidentified assailants; in his home in Seraing, Belgium.
Died. William Thomas Ellis, 76, whose weekly "Sunday School Lesson" is the second oldest syndicated feature (begun in 1897)* in the U.S. press; in Lyndhurst, Ont.
Died. Douglas McGarel Hogg, first Viscount Hailsham, 78, one of Britain's ablest jurists and staunchest Tories, Lord Chancellor, Secretary of State for War and Lord President of the Council during the '20s and '30s; in Hurstmonceaux, England. Viscount Hailsham's father, Quintin Hogg, was a wealthy reformer, founded London's Polytechnic Institute. Viscount Hailsham's eldest son, Quintin McGarel Hogg (who now succeeds to the title and a seat in the House of Lords), is an M.P., a brilliant lawyer, and author (The Case for Conservatism).
Died. Dr. Stephen Duggan, 79, founder (1919) and longtime director of the Carnegie-endowed Institute of International Education (which promotes two-way scholarships between U.S. and foreign universities); in Stamford, Conn.
* Oldest: Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer's "Dorothy Dix" (since 1896).
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