Born. To Hephzibah Menuhin Nicholas, 20; and Rancher Lindsay Nicholas, 24; a Leap-Year son; in Australia. Name: Kronrod George. Hephzibah is the ex-piano-playing sister of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin who married Lindsay Nicholas' sister Nola. Divorced recently was the third of Papa Moshe Menuhin's musical children, childless Yaltah (TIME, Feb. 19). Said Moshe then: "Two complete successes out of the marriages of three children is as much as any father can expect these days."

Birthdays. Daniel Harris (his pension checks always read "alias George Irving," under which name he enlisted), sole surviving Jewish veteran of the G. A. R., 94; Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, Labrador medical missionary, 75; Frederic William Goudy, dean of U. S. type designers, 75; Pope Pius XII, on the first anniversary of his election to the papacy, 64; Associate Justice Hugo La Fayette Black of the Supreme Court, 54.

Married. Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, 39, White House counselor; and Peggy Dowd, 27, his attractive, redhaired, hard-working secretary; suddenly, in Leesburg, Va.

Married. George Leslie Harrison, 53, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank; and Alice Gordon Grayson, 48, widow of Admiral Gary Travers Grayson; in Washington.

Marriage Attempted. Mary Cohan, estranged daughter of Actor George Michael Cohan (who never forgave her for eloping with a banjo player in 1927); and one George Ranken, an accordion player. Balked by Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia laws that called for several days' wait. Elopers Cohan & Ranken returned to their Manhattan nightclub jobs. Said she: "Now I don't know if we'll get married at all."

Seeking Divorce. Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., thrice-married, gadabout, society author & lecturer; from Helen Varner Vanderbilt; in Carson City, Nev. Grounds: three years' separation. (Last month Mrs. Vanderbilt announced she would sue Vagabond Vanderbilt for divorce if he stopped in one place long enough to be served.)

Died. Captain Lewis Alonzo Yancey, 44, famed aviation navigator and autogiro pilot; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Yonkers, N. Y. He flew to Rome in 1929 (with Roger Q. Williams).

Died. Prince Aage of Denmark, 52, veteran officer in the French Foreign Legion; after brief illness; in Taza, French Morocco. Cousin of King George V, Tsar Nicholas II, King Christian X of Denmark, King Haakon VII of Norway, King Constantine of Greece, he renounced his rights to the Danish throne when he was 26. Said he then: "It wasn't such a sacrifice."

Died. Elmer Mustard, 67, four-day Fire Commissioner of New York City; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. He succeeded Commissioner John J. McElligott, who retired, then changed his mind.

Died. James O'Donnell ("Eye Witness") Bennett, 69, famed retired Chicago Tribune reporter & correspondent; of coronary thrombosis; in Chicago. An admirer of German efficiency, he picked Germany to win World War I, but scorned the typewriter, wrote in pencil to the end.

Died. James Morgan Hutton Sr., 70, senior partner of Wall Street's W. E. Hutton & Co., investment bankers; of heart disease; in his Manhattan office.

Died. Edward Frederic Benson, 72, novelist, biographer, onetime mayor of Rye, England; in London. Son of a former Archbishop of Canterbury, member of a distinguished literary family, E. F. Benson published 75 books in his lifetime, beginning with the once-famed society novel, Dodo (1893), and including biographies of Alcibiades, Magellan, Charlotte Bronte, Wilhelm II of Germany, in which he was the first to reveal the cause of the Kaiser's withered arm (injury at birth). He finished his autobiography (Late Edition) a week before his death.

Died. Major General William Sidney Graves, retired, 74, commander of the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia (1918-20); of coronary thrombosis; in Shrewsbury, N. J.

Died. Solomon ("Uncle Sol") Levitan, 77, Uncle-Sam-bearded Jewish immigrant pack peddler who became Wisconsin's treasurer six times; of a heart attack; in Madison, Wis. A follower of "Old Bob" La Follette, to whom he once sold a pair of suspenders, colorful Republican Levitan turned Progressive, rose with his Old Bob. Campaigning for his sixth term as State treasurer in 1936, he replied to critics of his age: "It might be good to let an elderly man handle your money. He's looking for the golden gate, not the golden calf."

Died. Hamlin Garland, 79, U. S. novelist, literary confrere of Howells, Crane, James; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. The Middle Border tales, his best books, were about drudging U. S. prairie life.

Died. Dr. Karl Muck, 80, world-famed Wagnerian conductor; after long illness; in Stuttgart, Germany. Anti-German agitation in 1917 forced his resignation as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; his arrest, as an enemy alien followed, and he was interned at Oglethorpe, Ga. for the duration of World War I.

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