Monday, Apr. 23, 1951

Married. Barbara Bel Geddes, 28, recently divorced Broadway star (The Moon Is Blue); and Windsor Lewis, 30, stage director; both for the second time; in Wooddale, Del.

Married. Henry J. Kaiser, 68, steel, auto and shipbuilding tycoon; and Alyce Pencovic Chester, 34, nurse-companion to his first wife until her death a month ago, an officer in Kaiser's Permanente Foundation, which operates ten charity hospitals; both for the second time; in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Died. Mrs. James Joyce (Nora Barnacle), 65, longtime confidante and literary midwife to her famed author husband; of a heart attack; in Zurich, Switzerland, where Joyce died ten years ago. A practical woman, she helped him settle down and get his work done, sighed after reading Ulysses: "I guess the man's a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, surely!" After he reached success and died, she long endured a genteel poverty, unwilling to live in England, unable to get more than a fraction of his royalties out of the country.

Died. Samuel Rufus Rosoff, 68, rags-to-riches construction tycoon ($50 million worth of Manhattan subways); after an operation for an intestinal ailment; in Baltimore. In 1894, at the age of twelve, he worked his way to New York from Russia, worked his way to the top with some powerful boosts from friendly Democratic politicos, became a millionaire playboy and philanthropist. Something of a bulldozer himself, he boasted that he got ahead through brawn, not brains: "What the hell. I can always hire college graduates to do the pencil-and-paper work."

Died. Ernest Bevin, 70, Lord Privy Seal in the British cabinet, before that for 5 1/2 years Britain's Foreign Secretary; of a heart attack; in London (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Henry DeVere Stacpoole, 88, who gave up medical practice because he "would rather write fiction on a crust than have the best practice in Harley Street," eventually turned out some 50 novels, for 30 years was one of the most popular purveyors of old-fashioned romance (The Blue Lagoon; An American at Oxford); on the Isle of Wight, where he had settled down after leaving his native Dublin.

Died. Vilhelm Bjerknes, 89, Norway's "father of modern meteorology," whose weather "fronts" greatly increased the accuracy of weather forecasts; in Oslo, Norway. Bjerknes' pioneering shifted emphasis from ground observations to the upper air, explained weather change by the interaction of polar and tropical "air masses." His system was gradually adopted by the U.S. Weather Bureau in the early '30s.

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