Monday, Mar. 20, 1950

Born. To Major General Claire Chennault (ret.), 59, granite-faced onetime boss of the Flying Tigers and the Fourteenth Air Force, and second wife Anna Chan, 26, former news reporter: their second daughter (his tenth child); in Hong Kong. Name: Cynthia Louise. Weight: 7 1/2lbs.

Married. Virginia Hill, 33, pretty, hard-boiled mistress of the late Mobster Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel; and her ski instructor, Herman Johann ("Hans") Hauser, 38, Austrian glamour boy who was jailed in 1942 as an enemy alien; she for the fourth time; in Elko, Nev.

Died. Marguerite De La Motte, 47, silent-film leading lady (Mark of Zorro, The Three Musketeers, The Iron Mask) to the late Douglas Fairbanks Sr.; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in San Francisco.

Died. Sidne Silverman, 51, president and owner of show business' weekly trade sheet Variety and Hollywood Daily Variety; after long illness; in Harrison, N.Y.

Died. Daniel Frisch, 52, Palestine-born president of the Zionist Organization of America and a General Zionist world leader; after an operation for a liver ailment; in Manhattan. A retired investment broker and onetime executive of an Indianapolis salvage firm, Frisch campaigned for strong ties between the U.S. and Israel.

Died. Brock Pemberton, 64, Broadway producer who put on the early plays of Zona Gale (Miss Lulu Bett), Sidney Howard (Swords), Maxwell Anderson (White Desert) and Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A Kansas-born onetime reporter for William Allen White's Emporia Gazette (1908-10), Pemberton first introduced to theatergoers such stars as Walter Huston, Miriam Hopkins, Claudette Colbert and Fredric March. His biggest success came late in life (1944), when he produced Broadway's fifth longest run, Harvey.

Died. Heinrich Ludwig Mann, 78, novelist (Henry, King of France; Professor Unrat), German intellectual who fled Hitler's Nazi regime in 1933, elder brother of Nobel Prizewinner Thomas Mann; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Charles A. Windolph, 98, early Congressional Medal of Honor winner, onetime cavalry private under Major General George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of Little Big Horn (1876) where he held an exposed outpost; at Lead, S.D. Promoted to sergeant on the battlefield, Windolph was in Troop H, part of two flanking detachments of the 7th Cavalry which were half destroyed while Custer and 264 troops under his direct command were annihilated.

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