Monday, Feb. 03, 1947
Born. To Henry Benjamin ("Hank") Greenberg, 36, baseball's current home-run king, and Caral Gimbel Greenberg, 31, an heiress to Gimbel Bros.-Saks Fifth Avenue millions: their first child, a son; in New York City. Name: Glenn Hank. Weight: 8 lbs. 3 oz.
Born. To John Carradine, 40, cadaverous, leonine cinemactor, specialist in Shakespeare and high villainy, and blonde Sonia Sorel Carradine, 22, actress: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Christopher John. Weight: 8 lbs.
Married. Van Johnson, 31, chubby, pink-haired cinema Dream Boy of U.S. bobby-soxers, and Eve Abbott Wynn, 30, onetime stage actress; he for the first time, she for the second; four hours after she divorced Comedian Keenan Wynn, Johnson's best friend; in Juarez, Mexico.
Married. Dean Jagger, 42, cinemactor (Brigham Young, Sister Kenny); and Gloria Ling, 24, secretary to FORTUNE'S executive editor; he for the second time, she for the first; after a Santa Monica, Calif, marriage bureau denied them a license because of Miss Ling's Chinese father (California law prohibits white-Mongolian marriages), in Albuquerque.
Died. Prince Gustaf Adolf, 40, eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince; in the airplane crash that killed Grace Moore; in Copenhagen (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Died. Grace Moore, 45, bubbling, blonde hillbilly girl (selfstyled) who became one of the Metropolitan Opera's first-string divas (Mimi, Tosca), took Hollywood in stride (One Night of Love), toured operatic and concert stages the world over; in a plane crash; in Copenhagen (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Died. Harold Dewey (for the Admiral) Smith, 48, quietly efficient vice president and acting head of the World Bank, longtime (seven years) Director of the U.S. Budget, chief inquisitor for the late President Roosevelt into the management and finances of federal bureaus ; of a heart ailment ; on his Culpeper, Va. farm.
Died. Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, 48, Naples-born, onetime kingpin of Chicago gangdom, longtime U.S. Public Enemy No. 1, for years a mentally incompetent paretic; following a stroke and pneumonia; at his palatial villa near Miami Beach. (See NATIONAL AFFAIRS.)
Died. Lieut. General Roy Stanley Geiger, 61, grizzled, flinty-eyed pioneer Marine airman, hero of two wars ; of phlebitis and pulmonary complications; in Bethesda, Md. Naval Hospital. Forty years a leatherneck, Geiger rose from private to three-star rank, commanded all land-based aircraft which helped .turn the tide at Guadalcanal, led Marine conquests on Bougainville, Guam, Peleliu, Okinawa, became the first Marine ever to command an entire army (the U.S. 10th), on the death of General Simon B. Buckner Jr.; succeeded General Holland M. Smith as commander of the Fleet Marine Force.
Died. James Louis Garvin, 79, longtime (34 years) editor of the conservative London Observer, whose lengthy (average 2,500 words) weekly articles carried tremendous political influence, friend of the mighty (eulogized Winston Churchill: "One of the four or five great figures of the last 100 years of ... journalism"), onetime editor in chief of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; in the house where another great political writer (Edmund Burke) once lived, at Beaconsfield, England.
Died. Pierre Bonnard, 80, great 20th Century impressionist painter, one of France's "Big Four" of modern art (with Picasso, Matisse, Rouault); on the Riviera, near Cannes.
Died. Marcus Allen Coolidge, 81, one-term (1931-37) Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, special envoy to Poland during Wilson's .administration, distant cousin of the late President Coolidge; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Miami.
Died. Mac Harris, 92, bearded, cane-twirling ex-slave, idol of famed Beale Street during the South's Reconstruction, onetime "king of gamblers" along the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans ; in a shabby flat in Memphis.
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