Monday, Nov. 17, 1947
Married. Robert John Herwig, 32, first husband of Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor (who became interested in Restoration England while student-husband Robert was writing a thesis on it); and Nadine Hegeman, 20, University of California student; he for the second time, she for the first; in Las Vegas, Nev.*
Married. Haila Stoddard, 33, topnotch Broadway replacement (starring roles in Blithe Spirit, Dream Girl) ; and Broadway Producer Harald Martin Bromley, 37; she for the second time (her first was Tobacco Road Playwright Jack Kirkland), he for the first; in Los Angeles.
Married. J. Strom Thurmond, 45, balding bachelor Governor of South Carolina; and Jean Crouch, 21, his ex-secretary (whom he crowned Miss South Carolina at the Charleston Azalea Festival last April); each for the first time; at the Governor's mansion in Columbia.
Divorced. By Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, 29: Jack-of-all-Theatrics Orson Welles, 32; after four years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles.
Divorced. James McCauley Landis, 48, leathery CABoss, onetime Harvard Law dean, onetime SEC chairman; by Stella McGehee Landis, 50; after 21 years, two children; in Salem, Mass. She charged that he had not returned home since he went off to Cairo on a Government economic mission in 1943.
Died. Sir Alexander Paterson, 62, Britain's kindly Commissioner of Prisons for 25 years before his retirement last January, a leader in modern prison reform; in London.
Died. General Constantin Sanatescu, 62, reluctant Premier of Rumania's first, pro-Allied Government after her surrender in August 1944; of cancer; in Bucharest. Co-engineer with King Michael of the coup d'etat that overthrew the Fascist puppet-masters, Sanatescu fell into disfavor with the Russians after three months as premier, quit, became inspector general of the Army.
Died. Walter Henry Rich, 67, president of Atlanta's easy-credit Rich's Inc., busiest department store in the South (last year's sales: $42,000,000); of a heart attack; in Atlanta. Publicity-minded Merchant Rich attracted attention in the depression by proposing that Atlanta's teachers be paid in scrip (to be honored at his store, later redeemed by the city), sold $645,000 worth of goods, gained Atlanta's gratitude.
*But the Herwigs will live apart in California--as Novelist Winsor and new husband Artie Shaw are required to--until the Herwig-Winsor divorce becomes final Dec. 9. Neither the Herwigs nor the Shaws are legally married in California.
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