Monday, Aug. 18, 1952

Engagement Announced. Anthony Eden, 55, Britain's elegant Foreign Secretary, and Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, 32, Prime Minister Churchill's blonde, blue-eyed niece, Britain's "most beautiful debutante of 1938," a wartime Foreign Office worker, more recently employed in Film Producer Alexander Korda's office; in London.

Divorced. By Maureen O'Hara, 31, red-haired cinemactress (The Quiet Man --see CINEMA) : Movie Director Will Price, 39; after ten years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles.

Died. Clement George McCullagh, 47, publisher (since 1936) of the Toronto morning Globe & Mail and (since 1948) the evening Telegram, two of Canada's largest (combined circ. 453,974) newspapers; of a heart attack; in Toronto. McCullagh quit as assistant financial editor of the old Toronto Globe in 1928, quipped that "next time I come in I'll be buying the newspaper." He joined a Bay Street brokerage firm, later formed his own company and became a millionaire by the time he was 30. In 1936 he returned with the money ($1,850,000, backed by Gold Mine Owner William Wright) to buy the Globe; a month later he bought its morning rival, the Mail & Empire; twelve years later acquired the Telegram for $3,610,000. A onetime Liberal, he shifted to the Conservative Party in 1943.

Died. Dr. Donald Alfred Stauffer, 50, chairman of Princeton University's English department, George Eastman Professor of English (for the past year) at Oxford University, poet, Shakespearean scholar, critic and novelist (The Saint and the Hunchback); of a coronary thrombosis; in Oxford, England.

Died. Jeffery Farnol, 74, perennial bestselling British novelist (The Broad Highway, The Amateur Gentleman); after long illness; in Eastbourne, England.

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