Birthday. TIME; its 20th; on March 3; in Manhattan;* celebrated by 252 editors, writers, researchers and correspondents working on its 1,042nd issue.

Born. To William Buehler Seabrook, 57, writer on voodoo, cannibalism and himself (Witchcraft, Jungle Ways, No Hiding Place), and Constance Kuhr Seabrook, 31, his third wife: a son, William Kuhr, 7 lb. 3 oz.; in Rhinebeck, N.Y.

Married. Writer Kay Boyle (The First Lover, My Next Bride), 40; and Private Joseph Maria Franckenstein, 32; she for the third time, he for the first; five days after she divorced Writer Laurence Vail; in Salt Lake City.

Divorced. By Helen Lee Eames Doherty Wessel, stepdaughter of the late multimillionaire utilitycoon Henry L. Doherty: Theodore William Wessel, former Danish Charge d'Affaires in Santiago; seven years after marriage; in West Palm Beach. Her extravagant Washington debut in threadbare 1930 was the target of Congressional criticism; party favors for some of the guests were automobiles.

Divorced. Manhattan Lawyer Richard Allen Knight: by Dorothy Ledyard Knight; in Reno, on her third try.

Died. Colonel Clinton Roy Dickinson, 54, longtime chief editorialist of the advertising world, short-story writer, for the past year executive assistant to Draft Director Hershey; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington. Through advertising's No. 1 tradepaper, Printers' Ink, Editor Dickinson plumped for honesty, dignity, decency in advertising, was an influential booster and lambaster.

Died. Steve Vasilakos, 58, the nation's most publicized peanut vendor (outside the White House for 37 years); of a heart ailment; in Washington.

Died. Henry Edward Dixey, 84, matinee idol of the 80's; of injuries in a traffic accident; in Atlantic City. The Great Profile of his day, romantic juvenile, tragedian, comic-opera star, specialty dancer, he played the title role in Adonis for a record 603 performances on Broadway.

Left. By the late Maxine Elliott, famed stage beauty: an estate appraised at $1,140,065 net; the bulk of it to her sister, Lady Gertrude Forbes-Robertson, the rest to four nieces (including Mrs. Vincent Sheean), one maid.

*And by TIME correspondents in Cairo, London, Washington, Chungking, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Boston, Mexico City, Algiers, Buenos Aires, Poona, Ankara, New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro, Ottawa, Detroit, San Francisco, Atlanta, the Gold Coast, Chicago, Honolulu, Dublin, Seattle, New Delhi, Anchorage, Johannesburg; and with U.S. Navy task forces and Army expeditionary forces.

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