Monday, Apr. 11, 1949
Married. Levi Jackson, 22, Yale's star halfback and first Negro sport captain, and Virginia Lucille Moore, 22, his high-school sweetheart; in New Haven, Conn.
Married. George Sanders, 42, cinemactor (The Moon and Sixpence, Forever Amber); and Sari Gabor ("Zsazsa") Hilton, thirtyish, "Miss Hungary" of 1936, former wife of Hotel Magnate Conrad N. Hilton; he for the second time, she for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev.
Died. Forest ("Nubbins") Hoffman, 7, the solemn little boy who fought a four-year losing battle for his life; of a bladder ailment; in Cheyenne, Wyo. In 1944, newspaper readers across the land helped Nubbins celebrate Christmas six weeks early because he was not expected to live, filled his home with letters and presents (Railroad Tycoon Bill Jeffers sent a toy automobile, Harry Truman sent a book), have since closely followed his two major operations and long fight in hospitals.
Died. Willard Henry Dow, 52, president (since 1930) of gigantic Dow Chemical Co. (600 products); in a private airplane crash; near London, Ont. From a modest beginning by Dow's father in 1897, Dow Chemical became the largest producer of magnesium (mined from sea water) in World War II, did a $170 million business last year in industrial and agricultural chemicals, plastics, pharmaceuticals and magnesium.
Died. John Martin, 64, "Uncrowned King of South Africa" for three decades; after long illness; in Johannesburg. Martin managed the Argus newspaper chain (15 dailies, 13 weeklies), headed famed "Corner House," which controlled 16 gold mines and had a hand in a dozen more.
Died. Friedrich Bergius, 64, German-born scientist who won the 1931 Nobel Prize for chemistry (for converting coal into gasoline), an expert on ersatz foodstuffs which were later used by the Nazi war machine (he succeeded in making sugar out of sawdust); of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires.
Died. Prince Harald of Denmark, 72, brother of Norway's King Haakon VII and uncle of Denmark's King Frederik IX, husband of Princess Helena (expelled, after Denmark's liberation, for her pro-Nazi activities); of a heart attack; in Copenhagen.
Died. John Milton Berdan, 75, longtime Yale professor of English (1903-41); of cerebral thrombosis; in New Haven, Conn. Credited with influencing many well-known writers (Sinclair Lewis, Stephen Vincent Benet, Thornton Wilder) through his popular "Daily Themes" course, Berdan was consulted by Yalemen Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden before they founded TIME in 1923.
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