Monday, Feb. 09, 1953
Born. To General Fulgencio Batista, 52, Cuba's strongman President, and Second Wife Marta Fernandez de Batista, 30 : his seventh child, fifth son, her fourth child, fourth son; in Havana. Name: Fulgencio Jose. Weight: 10 Ibs. 8 oz.
Divorced. By Anne Baxter, 29, Oscar-winning cinemactress (All About Eve): John Hodiak, 38, cinemactor (A Bell for Adano, Battleground} ; after 6 1/2 years of marriage, one daughter; in Hollywood.
Divorced. By Rita Hayworth, 34, cinemactress: Prince Aly Khan, 41, playboy-ing eldest son of the Aga Khan, her third husband (she was his second wife); after 3 1/2 years of marriage, one daughter (three-year-old Princess Yasmin, who was placed in her mother's custody) ; in Reno.
Died. Alan Curtis, 43, cinemactor (Gung Ho, High Sierra) ; following a kidney operation; in Manhattan.
Died. Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, 65, son-in-law of Kaiser Wilhelm II, father of Queen Frederika of Greece and head of the House of Hanover; of a liver ailment; at Marienburg Castle, Hanover, Germany.
Died. Mrs. Susan Homans Woodruff, 83, last of a trio of elderly female angels of the Communist Daily Worker; in Manhattan. Onetime Schoolmarm Woodruff, a Smith College graduate and a D.A.R., joined Anna Whitaker Pennypacker (daughter of Pennsylvania's 1903-07 governor, Samuel W. Pennypacker) and Mrs. Ferdinanda W. Reed (daughter of a Cambridge, Mass, physician) in providing the Worker with an early-American front after 1940. She once explained why Representative Martin Dies had never called her to testify before his Un-American Activities Committee: "The public would certainly make fun of him for bothering three old ladies like us."
Died. Bishop Theophil Wurm, 84, German Protestantism's most consistent and outspoken critic of Naziism after Hitler's rise to power; in Stuttgart, Germany. At war's end, Bishop Wurm set about reviving and consolidating the remnants of the Protestant federation which Hitler had smashed in 1933, succeeded in getting almost all Protestant faiths to join forces in a powerful new German Evangelical Church.
Died. General Sir Reginald Wingate, 91, one of the last of Britain's empire builders who helped establish British rule in the Middle East at the end of the Victorian era; in Dunbar, Scotland. General Wingate (cousin of Major General Charles Orde Wingate, head of "Wingate's Raid ers," who was killed in Burma in World War II) commanded the Egyptian army from 1899 to 1916.
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