Monday, Jan. 14, 1946
Married. Elisabeth de Gaulle, 21, pretty, trained-nurse daughter of French President Charles de Gaulle; and Commandant (Major) Alain de Boissieu, 31; in Paris. Son-in-law De Boissieu, le grand Charlie's military aide, escaped from a German prison camp in 1940, campaigned in Africa and Normandy.
Married. Myrna Loy, 40, redheaded, pretty but jug-eared "perfect screen wife"; and Commodore (on terminal leave) Gene Markey, 50, cinema scenarist and producer, wartime member of Admiral William F. Halsey's staff; both for the third time; on Terminal Island, Calif. At ceremony's end, Gene pecked Myrna's cheek, she pecked Best Man Halsey's. Said the Markeys: "This time it will stick." Her former husbands: Producer Arthur Hornblow Jr., Advertising Executive John D. Hertz Jr. His former wives: Cinemactresses Joan Bennett, Hedy Lamarr.
Divorced. By Jascha Heifetz, 45, Russian-born violin virtuoso: Florence Vidor Heifetz, 44, retired silent-screen star; after 17 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Ana, Calif. Testimony highlight: she spoke disparagingly of Violinist Heifetz's musical ability.
Died. Grayson Neikirk Kefauver, 45, progressive, internationally minded dean (on leave) of Stanford University's School of Education, State Department consultant on re-educating Germany, prime mover in establishing UNO's educational, scientific and cultural branch; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Los Angeles.
Died. George J. ("Slim") Summerville, 51, bulb-nosed, sleepy-eyed, under-chinned veteran comedian who began as a pie-throwing Keystone Kop in Mack Sennett slapstick; of a stroke; in Laguna Beach, Calif.
Died. Bradford Brooks Locke, 54, executive vice president of the $40,000,000 Church Pension Fund (for retired Episcopalian clergymen), one of the most candidly critical but most popular citizens (though he was a Harvardman) of Princeton, N.J.; after an operation; in Princeton.
Died. Will Thorne, 88, Falstaffian British Laborite M.P. for 39 years, who spiced debates in Commons with protesting blasts on a football referee's whistle and stentorian encouragement (e.g., to Lady Astor during a hot discussion: "Stick it, lass, stick it!"); in London. A barber's assistant at six, he never had a day's formal education, believed firmly in marriage (when remarrying at 72 he explained: "I've had three wives and they were all jolly good ones"), once averred that a sensible Frau could keep even Hitler out of mischief.
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