Monday, Jan. 21, 1952
Born. To Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 37, Democratic Congressman from New York, and Suzanne Perrin Roosevelt, 30: their first child, his third (first daughter); in Manhattan. Name: Nancy. Weight: 9 Ibs. 1 oz.
Married. Sumner Welles, 59, elegant onetime Under Secretary of State (1937-43), a chief architect of the Good Neighbor policy, author on foreign relations (The Time for Decision, Seven Decisions That Shaped History); and Mrs. Harriette A. Post, 57, Manhattan socialite; both for the third time; in Manhattan.
Married. Ferde Grofe (Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe), 59, American composer (Grand Canyon Suite)', and Mrs. Anna May Lampton, 43; he for the second time; in Las Vegas.
Died. Dr. William Henry Dean, 41, sometime lecturer in economics at New York City College and chief of the U.N.'s African Economic Development Unit; by his own hand; in a gas-filled Harlem apartment.
Died. Harry A. Woodruff, 48, Manhattan importer and onetime vice consul in Tunis (1941-42); by his own hand (gunshot); in Brooklyn. In North Africa, as assistant to Robert D. Murphy, then counsellor of the U.S. Embassy in Vichy, Woodruff worked in the undercover preparations for the U.S. invasion, won the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre and U.S. Medal for Merit.
Died. General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, 62, French High Commissioner and Commander in Chief in Indo-China; of a prostate tumor; in Paris (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Died. Clarence Richard Lindner, 62, publisher of the San Francisco Examiner and vice president-director of Hearst Consolidated Publications; of a heart attack; in San Francisco (see PRESS).
Died. Clement M. Keys, 75, organizer and first president of Curtiss-Wright Corp. and longtime aviation financier; after long illness; in Manhattan. In the post-World War I slump he bought control of the old Glenn Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., by 1929 had 1) financed $80 million worth of aviation enterprises, 2) formed the Transcontinental Air Transport, forefather of T.W.A., with Charles A. Lindbergh as technician-executive, 3) helped finance the first trans-U.S. airmail and passenger services, 4) started the first passenger service in China.
Died. P. R. Crump, 104, Alabama's last veteran of the War Between the States; in Lincoln, Ala. Enlisting in the loth Alabama Regiment in 1863, he saw action in the Virginia campaign, witnessed General Lee's surrender.
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