Monday, Jan. 10, 1938
Born. To Vittorio Mussolini, 21, II Duce's chubby, film-producing eldest son, and Milanese Orsola Buvoli Mussolini, 23; their first child, a son, Guido; in Rome. Nine days before, Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano had given II Duce another grandson; five weeks before, Sylvia De Rosa Mussolini, Vittorio's cousin Vito's wife, had borne a son, Arnaldo, won a 1,000-lira bet from Orsola by having her baby first.
Birthday. Carter Glass, senior Democratic Senator from Virginia; his 80th; in Washington, day after Congress reconvened. Said he of the President's speech (see p 11): "It was a very agreeable and engaging sort of a message, from his viewpoint."
Engaged. Prince Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, 30, heir apparent of Crown Prince Friedrich William of Germany, one-time automechanic in a Detroit Ford plant, now employed by .Lufthansa German airline; to Princess Kyra Kirillowna, 28, daughter of Russian Grand Duke Cyril; in Doom, The Netherlands.
Married. Stan Laurel, 43, hair-scratch-ing, empty-headed film funnyman, partner of fat Oliver Hardy; to Vera Ivanova Shuvalova, 28, a Russian singer; day after his divorce; in Yuma, Ariz.
Divorced. John Daniel Miller Hamilton, Republican National Chairman, by Laura Hall Hamilton; in Topeka, Kans. Charges: "Gross neglect of duty, abandonment for more than a year."
Died. Harold Russell ("Night") Ryder, 42, onetime self-styled "Brightest young man in Wall Street," twice sentenced to prison on grand larceny charges growing out of stock manipulations; of a heart attack, while waiting for a thorough prison physical examination; in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N. Y. In 1930 an investigation of Woody & Co., his stock firm, led to his first arrest.
Died. Donald Robert Perry Marquis, 59, columnist, humorist, playwright; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Forest Hills, N. Y. Author of Dreams and Dust, The Old Soak, The Dark Hours, he was best known for the adventures of mehitabel the amorous cat ("toujours gaie toujours gaie") and of archie, the cockroach which hopped from key to key of the author's typewriter, composing.
Declared Legally Dead. Paul Redfern, aviator, who disappeared ten years ago, after taking off from Brunswick, Ga., to fly to Rio de Janeiro; by a Michigan circuit court judge in Detroit, at the appeal of his widow. Visionary travelers have reported his survival as "a god that fell from the sky" in Brazil, as a crippled "medicine man" in Dutch Guiana.
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