Monday, Oct. 24, 1949
Born. To Cristobal Colon de Carvajal, 17th Duke of Veragua, 24, lieutenant in the Spanish navy, who, as ranking male descendant of Christopher Columbus, holds the hereditary title of Admiral of the Indies ; and former Anunciada Gorosabely Ramirez, 23, Madrid socialite: their first child, a son; in Madrid. Name: Cristobal Colon, 17th Marquess of Jamaica. Weight: 7 Ibs.
Married. Zoe Ann Olsen, 18, blonde Olympic aquastar, holder of 14 national diving championships; and Jack. Jensen, 22, University of California All-America (1948) fullback and minor league baseball player (he was bought last week by the New York Yankees, got a $15,000 a year contract and a $35,000 bonus); in Oakland, Calif.
Married. George Orwell (real name: Eric Blair), 45, British-born political satirist (Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four'); and Sonia Brownell, 30, an editor of London's highbrow literary monthly, Horizon; he for the second time ; in 'a London hospital where he is suffering from tuberculosis.
Married. Cornelia Mary Vanderbilt, 49, expatriate great-granddaughter of the late "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt (in 1925 she inherited some $40 million from her father, George Washington Vanderbilt) ; and Vivian Francis Bulkeley-Johnson, 58, bank secretary; both for the second time; in London.
Died. Mark Warnow, 47, topflight radio orchestra leader (MARCH OF TIME, We, the People), conductor (since 1937) of 493 broadcasts of Your Hit Parade; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan.
Died. Cecile White Stainback, 55, wife of Hawaii's Governor (since 1942) Ingram Macklin Stainback; after a brain operation; in St. Louis.
Died. Fritz Leiber, 66, Chicago-born, longtime Shakespearean trouper, since 1935 a Hollywood character actor (A Tale of Two Cities, The Life of Louis Pasteur) ; of a heart ailment; in Santa Monica, Calif. In a long career (beginning in 1905) of cross-country barnstorming as actor-producer, Leiber became one of Shakespeare's chief interpreters (everything from Romeo to Lear) for two generations of smalltown Americans.
Died. George Clinton Densmore Odell, 83, onetime Columbia University professor of dramatic literature (he retired in 1939), compiler (since 1920) of a monumental (15 volumes, over 5,000,000 words) Annals of the New York Stage, a chronicle of the theater from 1750 through 1894; in Manhattan. He had planned one more volume to end his annals at 1900.
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