Monday, Feb. 04, 1946
Born. To Mayris Chancy Martin, 34, distaff side of the la-de-da Chancy & Fox dance team, Eleanor Roosevelt protegee whom Congress waltzed out of OCD in 1942; and Hershey Martin, 34, San Francisco orchestragent: their first child, a daughter; in San Francisco. Name: Anna Eleanor (for Mrs. R., godmother-to-be).
Married. James Ramsay Ullman, 38, venturer and adventurer who wrote the current best-selling White Tower, produced four Broadway flops in one season (1936-37), then quit because "I like to eat"; and Elaine Heineberg Baron Luria, 27; he for the second time, she for the third; in Manhattan.
Married. Brian Aherne, 43, flamboyant British-born stage & screen actor, lately ETO-touring in a melodramatized Barretts of Wimpole Street; and Eleanor de Liagre Labrot, 33, socialite sister of Broadway Producer Alfred de Liagre Jr.; both for the second time (his first: Joan Fontaine); at Sneden Landing, N.Y.
Married. Lieut. General Lewis Hyde Brereton, 55, rough-&-tough Annapolis-graduated air corps oldtimer, whose varied World War II commands took him from the Philippines (at Pearl Harbor time) to India to Africa to Europe, where his Ninth (tactical) Air Force helped blast the way for invasion; and Londoner Zena Amanda Bell Groves, 34, whom he met in England when she was chauffeuring dignitaries as a Motor Corps member; he for the third time, she for the second; at Mitchel Field, L.I.
Died. Feliks Nowowiejski, 68, first-rank conductor and patriot composer of Poland's national hymn, Rota,* who was stricken in 1942, while a Nazi captive, with complete, permanent paralysis; in Poznan.
*Poetess Maria Konopnicka wrote the words: Our native tongue, our native land, Shall we renounce them? Never! . . . Must we be Germans? Rather die; So help us God on high!
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