Monday, Aug. 08, 1949
Born. To Princess Shigeko (called Teru no Miya: Shining Highness) Higashi-Kuni, 23, eldest of Emperor Hirohito's six children, and Prince Morihiro Higashi-Kuni, 33, eldest son of Japan's surrender Premier, Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni: their third child, second son (Hirohito's third grandchild); in the imperial household's private hospital, Tokyo. Weight: 7 lbs. 13.7 oz. Name: undisclosed.
Divorced. By Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, 43, F.D.R.'s only daughter and onetime newspaperwoman turned magazine editor, who now gives a daily radio commentary with her mother: second husband John Boettiger, 49, erstwhile Hearstling; after 14 years of marriage, one child; in Phoenix, Ariz.
Died. Vince Dundee (real name: Vincent Lazzaro), 41, onetime world middleweight boxing champion (1933-34), brother of Joe Dundee, world welterweight champion (1927-29); after battling for seven years against multiple sclerosis; in Glendale, Calif.
Died. George Moran, 67, straight man of the richly nostalgic radio and vaudeville black-face comedy team of Moran & Mack (The Two Black Crows); of a stroke; in Oakland, Calif. The act, belly laugh of the Ziegfeld Follies in the '20s, folded in 1934 when Charles E. Mack was killed in an automobile accident.
Died. Humphrey Verdon Roe, 71, pioneer British aviator and co-founder of A. V. Roe & Co., Ltd. (manufacturers of Britain's World War II Lancaster bomber), husband of popular sexologist Dr. Marie Carmichael (Married Love) Stopes; after long illness; in London.
Died. David Albert Schulte, 76, president (1903-48) and principal owner of the nationwide Schulte cigar-store chain, chairman of the board (1923-45) of Park & Tilford, Inc. (liquor and cosmetics), president of Dunhill International, Inc. (tobacco and perfume); in Holmdel, N.J. One of Manhattan's biggest real-estate operators (he had an intuitive genius for choosing the right corner-site retail stores), Schulte began as a $5-a-week errand boy, ended owning nearly 200 stores in 125 cities.
Died. Mrs. Margaret Elaine Damrosch, 82, wife of Conductor-Composer Walter Damrosch, daughter of onetime Secretary of State and Presidential Candidate James G. Elaine; in Bar Harbor, Me.
Died. Walter Miller, 85, classical scholar, longtime dean of the University of Missouri Graduate School, whose 1944 translation (with William Benjamin Smith) of Homer's Iliad into dactylic hexameter was hailed as "a triumph of ingenuity"; in Columbia, Mo.
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