Monday, Mar. 02, 1953

Born. To Shelley Winters, 29, cinema "bad girl" (A Place in the Sun, The Great Gatsby), and Vittorio Gassman, 32, Italian actor of stage (Hamlet) and screen (Bitter Rice): their first child (his second), a daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Vittoria Gina. Weight: 4 Ibs. 10 oz.

Married. Horace E. Dodge Jr., 52, motor millionaire; and Gregg Sherwood (real name: Dora Mae Fjelstad), 29, platinum blonde ex-showgirl; he for the fifth time, she for the second; at his mother's 75-room seaside mansion in Palm Beach, Fla.

Married. Howard Hawks, 56, cinema director (Scarface, Red River); and Dee Hartford (real name: Donna Higgins), 26, brunette New York model; he for the third time, she for the first; in Hollywood.

Divorced. By Ruth Elder. 47, aviatrix of the '20s who made a well-publicized but unsuccessful bid in 1927 to become the first woman to fly the Atlantic (the first: Amelia Earhart, in 1928): sixth husband Ralph King, 54, cinema cameraman; after 1 1/2 years of marriage; in Los Angeles, after she testified that he called her "a grey-headed old bag" and said he "wanted a young chick."

Divorced. By Andre Marty, 66, a skull-breaking ringleader of French Communism for 33 years (and Comintern secretary 1935-43) until he was raked over the Kremlin's coals and expelled from the party last year for "fractionalism": Ray-monde Marty, 53 after five years of marriage; in Paris, after he testified that she walked out on him on Politburo orders.

Died. Allan Shaw Haywood, 64, who rose from pitboy at 13 to be executive vice president and chief organizer of the C.I.O.; of a heart attack; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Hardworking, hard-drinking Allan Haywood, born a miner's son in Yorkshire. England, came to the U.S. in 1906. He followed John L. Lewis and Philip Murray up labor's ladder, recruited unions for the C.I.O., stuck with Murray when Lewis made his trumpeting breakaway in 1942. As right-hand man to ailing President Murray, Haywood seemed heir apparent, but after Murray's death last November the C.I.O. passed over aging Haywood, elected U.A.W. President Walter Reuther instead.

Died. William Waller Hawkins, 69, former chairman of the board of the 19 Scripps-Howard newspapers, onetime (1920-23) president of United Press; of influenza; in Miramar, Calif. Quiet, pincenezed Bill Hawkins was an effective complement to dynamic Roy Howard in their 46-year working partnership. They teamed up when U.P. was founded to rival the formidable A.P.; Howard became its globe-trotting president-reporter-publicist, Hawkins the steady harvester of clients, organizer of bureaus. Hawkins succeeded Howard as U.P. chief, followed him to Scripps-Howard, succeeded him in 1936 as board chairman when Howard became president.

Died. James Garfield Randall, 71, eight-volume biographer of Lincoln (Lincoln and the South, Lincoln the Liberal Statesman) and longtime (1920-49) professor of history at the University of Illinois who pictured the Civil War not as an "irrepressible conflict" but as the tragic error of a "blundering generation"; of leukemia; in Urbana, Ill.

Died. Francesco Saverio Nitti, 84, scholarly Italian elder statesman who was forced by Mussolini into a 20-year exile for his unflinching opposition to Fascism; of influenza; in Rome. The late Premier Vittorio Orlando's World War I Finance Minister, roly-poly Nitti was a Premier himself, in 1919-20. During Mussolini's time he found haven in Paris, returned home in 1945 to help guide Italy's political and economic rebirth, thereafter served in Parliament as an energetic liberal.

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