Monday, Jan. 31, 1949
Married. William Turner Walton, 46, British composer (Belshazzar's Feast and the musical score for Olivier's Henry V and Hamlet); and Susana Gil de Passo, 22, daughter of an Argentine lawyer; in a religious ceremony five weeks after a civil ceremony; in Buenos Aires.
Died. Theodore Spencer, 46, Harvard University English professor (he held the famed Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, first occupied by John Quincy Adams, 1806-09) and poet; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass.
Died. Paul Humiston Alling, 52, first U.S. ambassador to Pakistan; of amoebic dysentery, contracted last year while at his post in Karachi; in Bethesda, Md.
Died. George Jackson Mead, 57, co-founder of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co., aircraft engine designer (he developed the Wasp engine, which provided the basic design for half the power plants used in World War II U.S. warplanes); after long illness; in West Hartford, Conn.
Died. Mrs. Flora Drummond, 70, militant British suffragette who served nine prison sentences during her campaign to get votes for women; in Carradale, Scotland. "General" Drummond led showy demonstrations while mounted on a white horse, once chained herself in front of 10 Downing St., once tried to wrap up two of her colleagues and mail them by parcel post to the Prime Minister.
Died. Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, 73, Hindu lawyer, Indian Liberal Federation president, who won fame as a mediator between Gandhi and the British, and between the Indian National Congress and the Moslem League; in Allahabad, India.
Died. James Henry ("Dress-Shirt Jimmy") Thomas, 74, British labor leader who was forced to resign from the Cabinet in 1936 for tipping off friends on budget secrets; in London. Starting as a railroad engine wiper in his early teens, Thomas led his first strike at 15, rose to be head of the powerful National Union of Railwaymen, became a Laborite M.P., served in five Cabinets, was slated for the peerage when the budget scandal broke.
Died. Joseph Wright Harriman,*81, Manhattan banker (Harriman National Bank & Trust Co.) who, after his bank failed in 1933, served a two-year prison sentence for misapplying funds; in Sea Cliff, N.Y.
Died. Henry Warner Slocum, 86, two-time U.S. national tennis champion (1888-89), the second man to hold the title; after long illness; in Manhattan.
*First cousin to ECAmbassador-at-Large W. Averell Harriman.
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