Monday, Aug. 25, 1952
Born. To Moira Shearer, 26, red-haired ballerina (Tales of Hoffmann), and Ludovic Kennedy, 32, wartime Royal Navy lieutenant, author and onetime college librarian: their first child, a daughter; in London. Weight: 8 Ibs.
Married. Anthony Eden, 55, Britain's Foreign Secretary; and Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, 32, the Prime Minister's niece; he for the second time, she for the first; in a private civil service; in London (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Died. Lieut. General William Nafew Haskell (ret.), 74, veteran of the Philippines and St. Mihiel (1918), who directed relief in Russia and the Balkans during the famines that followed World War I, and ran unsuccessfully (in 1943) as Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor of New York; after long illness; in Greenwich, Conn.
Died. Mark Sullivan, 77, author (Our Times), onetime (1914-17) editor of Collier's, and political columnist (syndicated, at his peak, in close to 150 newspapers); of a heart attack; in West Chester, Pa. (see PRESS).
Died. David John ("Little Davey") Lewis, 83, onetime Pennsylvania coal miner who served 14 years as U.S. Congressman from western Maryland, helped found (in 1912) the nation's parcel post system; in Cumberland, Md. When he was nearly nine, Lewis shouldered a miniature pick & shovel, followed his father down a mine shaft to earn $10 a month. He was 17 before he learned to write, was once pulled out of a mine cave-in, half dead, with a physics book in his pocket. In 1910 Lewis was elected to Congress, identified himself as a left-wing Democrat. In 1935 he wrote the old-age pension law (although its sponsor, North Carolina's Representative Doughton, got the credit).
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