Monday, Aug. 11, 1952

Married. Jack Carson, 41, comedian of stage (Of Thee I Sing), screen (The Good Humor Man) & TV; and Cinemactress Lola (Champion) Albright, 28; he for the third time, she for the second; in North Hollywood.

Divorced. By Valerie Hobson, 35, British cinemactress (Great Expectations): Anthony Havelock-Allan, 47, British film producer (Brief Encounter); after 13 years of marriage, two children.

Divorced. Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., 39, California playboy and sugar heir: by Kay Williams, 35, blonde, onetime cinemactress, his fifth wife; after seven years of marriage, numerous spats, two children; in Los Angeles.

Divorced. J. B. Priestley, 58, bestsell-mg novelist (The Good Companions), actor and playwright; by Winifred May Priestley, fortyish; after 26 years of marriage, four children; in Exeter, England.

Died. Philip Douglas, 62, outstanding pitcher (1919-22) for the New York Giants, who was banned from organized baseball for life; of a stroke; in Sequatchie, Tenn. Towering (6 ft.-4 in.) "Shufflin' Phil" scrawled an offer to go fishing in the middle of 1922's hot pennant race if the St. Louis Cardinals would make it worth his while. "I don't want to see this guy [Giants Manager John McGraw] win the pennant . . ."he wrote Cardinal Outfielder Leslie Mann. "Send the goods to my house ... and I will go home on the next train." Douglas was fired; the Giants won anyhow.

Died. Edward Henry Scudamore Stanhope, 63, twelfth Earl of Chesterfield, who in 1935 succeeded to the title bestowed in 1628 by Charles I; of cardiac asthma; in London. The family name "Chesterfield" survives in the English language, associated with an overcoat, a sofa and an elegant manner. Best known of the Chesterfields: the fourth earl, Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773), famed for his letters to his son.

Died. Andrew Jackson Higgins, 65, rough & ready boss of Higgins, Inc., designers and makers of the snub-nosed landing craft that saw service in every theater of World War II; of complications resulting from stomach ulcers; in New Orleans. Bluff, tough "A.J." personally supervised every phase of his business, posted a sign in the plant: "Any body caught stealing tools from this yard won't get fired--he'll go to the hospital . . . A.J.H." With World War II, Higgins skyrocketed with war orders to an annual volume of $120 million.

Died. Charles Clinton Spaulding, 78, a former slave's son who became one of the richest Negroes in the U.S.; of pneumonia in Durham, N.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS)'.

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