Monday, Apr. 21, 1947
Married. Rear Admiral Ellery Wheeler Stone, 53, former Allied Control Commissioner in Italy, onetime president of Postal Telegraph, Inc.; and Countess Renata Arborio-Mella di Sant'Elia, 25, niece of the Pope's social secretary; he for the third time, she for the first; in Vatican City. Stone, who became a Roman Catholic a month before the wedding, was allowed to remarry in the church because 1) his first wife, a Catholic, died after their divorce, and 2) his second marriage (ending in divorce) to a Protestant was not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church.
Married. Abram Garfield, 74, Cleveland architect, son of the 20th U.S. President; and Helen Matthews, 45; he for the second time, she for the first; in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Died. Charles Bernard Nordhoff, 60, coauthor, with James Norman Hall,* 59, of Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, and other South Seas adventure novels; of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Nordhoff & Hall met a few weeks after World War I, formed a writing partnership, later moved to Tahiti--where Nordhoff married a native, by whom he had six children before their divorce in 1936.
Death Revealed. Langley Collyer, 61, shy Harlem hermit; of asphyxiation, under a pile of debris ten feet from the spot where the body of his blind brother was discovered 17 days earlier (TIME, April 7); in Manhattan. Death came to the recluse, police decided, when he hit a tripwire to one of the booby traps he kept in his rotting mansion to trap thieves, causing a pile of hoarded junk to fall and smother him.
Died. The Most Rev. Derwyn Trevor Owen, 70, British-born Archbishop of Toronto and Anglican Primate of All Canada, longtime crusader for a united church; of a heart attack; in Toronto, Canada.
Died. Count Hideo Kodama, 71, perennial Japanese Cabinet member, onetime majority leader in the House of Peers, a wartime Minister of Education and chief of the economic committee that hoped to develop Asia's occupied areas; of cancer; in Tokyo.
Died. Eugene E. Mapes, 86, onetime president of Brooks Brothers, Manhattan's elegant, tradition-draped men's clothing store; in Manhattan. In March 1888, on the day of the Big Blizzard, Mapes--then a Brooks clerk--made the day's only sale: a pair of white flannels to a southbound vacationer.
* Now in California, preparing to return to Tahiti, where he will work on a movie about South Seas life & love.
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