Monday, Jun. 06, 1949
Married. Rita Hay worth, 30, Holly-wood cinemactress, and Prince Aly Khan,
37, son of the Aga Khan (fabulously wealthy Moslem leader); she for the third time. he for the second; in Vallauris,
'ranee (see INTERNATIONAL).
Married. George S. Kaufman, 59,
Broadway playwright-director-producer
(Dinner at Eight, Stage Door), co-winner
of two Pulitzer Prizes (Of Thee I Sing,
You Can't Take It With You); and Leueen MacGrath, 35, blonde British actress
(Edward, My Son); he for the second
time, she for the third; in Bucks County,
Pa.
Died. Robert LeRoy Ripley, 55, world-famed cartoonist, who parlayed a sports cartoon. Believe It or Not, into a fabulously wealthy career in journalism, book writing, show business, radio, cinema and television; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan.
Died. James Monroe Smith, 60, onetime $18,000-a-year president of Louisiana State University, whose resignation in 1939 disclosed widespread corruption and graft in the Huey P. Long political machine; after a heart attack; in Angola, La. Plucked from obscurity by Huey ("[I'm] the Chief Thief for L.S.U.") Long to head his pet college, Smith helped his mentor (and Huey's political heir, ex-Gov. Richard Webster Leche) spend some $13,500,000 "improving" the university. was indicted on 40 counts, served six years (plus ten months for mail fraud). He ended in obscurity as director of vocational rehabilitation at the State Penitentiary.
Died. William Hulme Lever, second Viscount Leverhulme, 61: of an internal hemorrhage; in Minneapolis (while on a world tour). He was governing director (and son of the founder) of Britain's sprawling mercantile empire of Lever Bros. & Unilever Ltd. and its Dutch twin, Lever Bros. & Unilever N.V. (337 factories, 516 companies in 17 nation. with assets totaling $1.1 billion), among the world's leading* manufacturers of soap (Rinso, Lux, Lifebuoy), edible oils (Spry) and margarines.
Died. Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 15th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 64, eldest brother of Britain's Queen Elizabeth; after long illness; in Glamis Castle (legendary site of Shakespeare's Macbeth'), Angus, Scotland.
Died. W. (for William) A. (for Alexander) Julian, 78, $10,330-a-year Treasurer of the United States, custodian of some $251 billion, whose signature appears on all U.S. folding money issued since he was appointed in 1933; in an automobile accident; in Bethesda, Md.
-Sales last year: $1.7 billion.
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