Monday, May. 13, 1940
Married. Nancy Whitney, 23, daughter of the former president of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney; and Socialite Henry Averell Gerry, 26; in Manhattan. The bride was given away by her uncle, Morgan Partner George Whitney.
Married. Julia Ruth, 23, adopted daughter of baseball's ex-King of Swat George Herman ("Babe") Ruth; and Richard Wells Flanders, 31; in Manhattan. The Babe presented the bride with one of his old bats.
Married. Singer Mary Martin (My Heart Belongs to Daddy), 24; to Richard Halliday, 35, cinema story editor; she for the second time, he for the first; in Las Vegas, Nev.
Married. Cinemactress Arline Judge, 28, one day after her divorce (see below); and Cafe-Socialite James McKinley Bryant, 31; she for the third time, he for the second; "somewhere in Kentucky," after the Derby (see p. 79).
Divorced. Arline Judge, cinemactress; from Sportsman Daniel Reid Topping (part owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers), whom she married three years ago five hours after her divorce from Director Wesley Ruggles; in Bridgeport, Conn.
Died. Rosina Galli, 44, dainty onetime premiere danseuse at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, wife of fat Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza; of bronchopneumonia; in Milan.
Died. Josef Alexander Pasternack, 58, bushy-haired symphonic and radio maestro; of heart disease, during a radio rehearsal; in Chicago. In order to avoid confusion with Cinema Producer Joe Pasternak, he always used his middle initial.
Died. Rt. Rev. George Craig Stewart, 60, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Chicago; of a heart attack; on his way to a confirmation class in Chicago.
Died. Edwin Fitch Northrup, 75, onetime Princeton physicist, electrothermic engineer, holder of 104 patents for ways and means of producing and measuring high temperatures; in Princeton, N. J. In 1931 a furnace he invented produced a temperature of 3,600DEG, instantly vaporized rocks and pieces of iron dropped into it.
Died. Evander Berry Wall, 79, New York-born Beau Brummel, last and most elegant dandy of the Gay Nineties; of uremia; in Monte Carlo. A legend in his own time, recognizable by his high spread-eagle collars, violent waistcoats, blimpish mustache, red chowchows, he moved to France in 1912, continued to fulfill his destiny by hobnobbing with royalty, haunting race tracks and salons.
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