Monday, Nov. 12, 1945

Born. To Eddie Condon, 39, guitarist, leader of Manhattan's "pure" jazzmen (who scorn "semi-pro" canned jive and give concerts at Carnegie Hall) ; and Phyllis Reay Condon, 37, magazine writer: their second child, second daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Liza (from the title of his first recording). Weight: 7 Ibs.

Married. Charles Vidor,* 45, director of plushy, gilt-edged films (Cover Girl, A Song to Remember); and Doris Warner LeRoy, 33, daughter of cinema Tycoon Harry B. Warner and former wife of Director Mervyn LeRoy; he for the third time, she for the second; in Hollywood.

Died. Henry Ainley, 66, London matinee idol of the early 1900s, considered one of England's handsomest men, ardent Shakespearean who acted in popular plays "to permit the luxury of losing on Shakespeare"; after long illness; in London.

Died. Wincenty Witos, 71, leader of Poland's Peasant Party, three-time Premier, member of the present Polish Government; of pneumonia, culmination of a long illness begun in a German concentration camp; in Cracow. Wise, independent self-educated Wincenty Witos teamed with Marshal Josef Pilsudski and Ignace Paderewski to form the Polish Republic after World War I; later forced into exile by the reactionary Pilsudski, he became the martyr of Polish peasantry, returned to his people during the 1939 crisis, became their best-loved, most trusted statesman.

Died. Oliver K. Bovard, 73, austere, softspoken, longtime managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and power behind his paper's famed crusades against political and industrial corruption (Teapot Dome, Tom Pendergast, Union Electric) ; of bronchial pneumonia; in St. Louis. He paid his men well, fired them only for indifference or disloyalty, ruled his roost with icy justice. One of Bovard s ex-copyreaders, fired for sneaking P-D copy to a public utility before publication, once asked for his job back, pleading that he "had to live." Asked Bovard: "Why?

Died. Ignacio Zuloaga, 75, famed Spanish painter of some bullfighters and many socialites, self-conscious antiquarian who said he belonged to the 16th Century and set up a studio in a ruined Romanesque monastery ; in Madrid.

Died. Archbishop Joseph Schrembs, 79, Bavarian-born, tireless preacher (some Sundays, five sermons totaling as much as eight hours), hymn-writing head of the Roman Catholic diocese of Cleveland, outspoken participant in secular affairs (he opposed Prohibition as "fanaticism ); after three years illness in Cleveland.

*No kin to better-known Director King Vidor (The Citadel, Northwest Passage).

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