Monday, Mar. 26, 1951

Married. Elliott Roosevelt, 40, successful dabbler in radio and writing ; and Mrs. Minnewa Bell Ross, 39, California heiress (oil, real estate); both for the fourth time; at Miami Beach.

Married. Homer Bigart, 43, Pulitzer Prizewinning correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune; and Alice Veit, 32, former Trib secretary; in New York City.

Married. Elliot Paul, 60, sometime expatriate author (The Last Time I Saw Paris), who now lives in Cranston, R.I. ; and his secretary, Mrs. Serena ("Nancy") McMahon Dolan, 35; he for the fifth time, she for the second; in Providence.

Died. Robert Gerald Riddell, 42, Canada's Oxford-educated permanent delegate to the U.N. ; of a heart attack; on vacation in Virginia Beach, Va.

Died. Val (Vladimir) Lewton, 46, Russian-born producer of high-grade, low-budget movies (Bedlam, The Body Snatcher, The Cat People) ; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood.

Died. Mrs. Bess Fosburgh Kaiser, 64, wife of Tycoon Henry J. Kaiser (ships, cars, aluminum, steel); of heart disease; in Oakland, Calif. She met Kaiser in 1905, when he was making a bare living developing snapshots, married him two years later. She made most of her husband's business trips with him, camped in tents during his early days as a building contractor. After she became ill 18 months ago, Kaiser stuck close to their Oakland apartment, slept on a cot outside her room.

Died. Sam A. (for Adolph) Lewisohn, 66, Manhattan millionaire, financier, esthete; of a heart attack; while on vacation in Santa Barbara, Calif. Along with money, he inherited from his father Adolph the family tradition of cultural philanthropy. In a big-city way, Lewisohn followed the small-town ideal of the civic-spirited citizen; helped run Manhattan's famed Lewisohn Stadium concerts; pioneered in prison reform, was the only businessman ever to head the American Prison Association; tried to smooth labor-management relations (Human Leadership in Industry) ; worked at art collecting and art criticism (Painters and Personality).

Died. Katharine Houghton Hepburn, 73, mother of Actress Katharine Hepburn, known in her own right for her crusades for woman suffrage and birth control; of cerebral thrombosis; in Hartford, Conn.

Died. Emilie Baker Loring, 87, who turned out 30 drugstore-and-newsstand romantic novels (There Is Always Love, When Hearts Are Light Again) which sold over a million copies, a success she attributed to the "wholesome love" she wrote about ; after long illness ; in Wellesley, Mass.

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