Monday, Jan. 30, 1950
Married. Carl Ludwig von Habsburg, Archduke of Austria, 31, fourth son of Emperor Karl I, last ruler (1916-18) of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; and Princess Yolande de Ligne, 26, daughter of Prince Eugene de Ligne, Belgian ambassador to India; in an elaborate ceremony performed by the Primate of Belgium, at the De Ligne family castle, Beloeil, Belgium.
Divorced. Elliott Roosevelt, 39, peripatetic author (As He Saw It); by Faye Emerson Roosevelt, actress (cinema, theater, radio, TV), his third wife (he was her second husband); after five years of marriage, no children; in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Died. George Orwell (real name: Eric Blair), 46, Bengal-born British novelist, critic, political satirist (Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four) ; of tuberculosis; in London. A product of Eton, Orwell became a non-Communist leftist, fought for the Republicans in Spain. He was an independent radical who disliked party labels and instinctively fought all forms of dictatorship. His Animal Farm was a truly aimed, destructive satire on Stalin's Russia. His last book, bestselling Nineteen Eighty-Four, gave a chillingly ugly blueprint of a future slave state.
Died. Alan Hale (real name: Alan Mac-Kahn), 57, veteran cinemactor (The Covered Wagon, Robin Hood), part-time inventor (a sliding theater seat); of pneumonia; in Hollywood.
Died. Samuel Putnam, 57, author (Marguerite of Navarre, Marvelous Journey), translator, ex-Communist (he quit in 1944 after eight years of "misguided humility"); of a heart attack; in Lambertville, N.J. Translator of some 50 French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian works, he capped his career last year with an exemplary version of Don Quixote.
Died. Dr. Grace M. Fernald, 70, pioneer teacher of remedial reading, retired professor of psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. In 27 years at the U.C.L.A. clinic school, Dr. Fernald taught thousands of "word-blind" children (i.e., those who have trouble summoning up a mental image) to read & write.
Died. Vasil Kolarov, 72, bald, bull-necked old Comintern handyman who in July 1949 succeeded Georgi Dimitrov as Premier of Bulgaria; after long illness.
Died. Henry Justin Allen, 81, onetime editor (Topeka State Journal), governor of Kansas (1919-23) and U.S. Senator (1929-30), longtime foe of the New Deal; in Wichita, Kans. G.O.P. publicity director during the 1928 campaign, Allen was appointed to the Senate seat vacated by Vice President-elect Charles Curtis.
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