Monday, Feb. 06, 1950
Born. To Count Flemming of Rosenberg, 27, son of Prince Axel of Denmark, and Countess Ruth of Rosenberg (nee Nielsen), 25, Copenhagen businessman's daughter for whom he last year renounced the title of Prince and the right of succession to the throne: their first children, twin sons, the first twins in the history of the Danish royal family; in Copenhagen. Names: Valdemar and Birger.
Born. To Cinemactor Larry Parks, 34 (The Jolson Story), and Musicomedienne Betty Garrett Parks, 28 (On the Town): Their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Garrett Christopher.
Married. Edith Cook ("Drucie") Snyder, 24, only child of Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder; and Major John Ernest Horton, 30, White House aide; he for the second time (first wife: Cinemactress Frances Rafferty) ; in Washington.
Married. Ona Munson, 43, cinemactress (Belle Watling of Gone With the Wind); and Eugene Berman, 50, Russian-born painter and stage designer; she for the second time, he for the first; in Composer Igor Stravinsky's home in Los Angeles.
Divorced. By Gladys George, 45, platinum-blonde actress of stage (Personal Appearance) and screen (Madame X): Kenneth C. Bradley, 36, Los Angeles bellhop, her fourth husband; after 3 1/2 years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles.
Died. Lieut. General Raden Soedirman, fortyish, Japanese-trained commander in chief of the Republican Army which spearheaded the Indonesian fight for independence; of tuberculosis; in Magelang, Java.
Died. Dr. Herbert Eustis Winlock, 65, famed Egyptologist, onetime (1932-39) director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; in Venice, Fla. As associate curator of the museum's Egyptian Department, Winlock was one of the 22 people who saw King Tut-ankh-Amun's sarcophagus opened at Luxor in 1924.
Died. The Rev. Joseph Fort Newton,* 73, rector of Philadelphia's Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany, author (Lincoln and Herndon, The Builders, River of Years'), onetime syndicated columnist ("Everyday Religion"); in Merion, Pa. Impatient of denominational differences ("barbed-wire entanglements about the Altar of God"), Dr. Newton was ordained a Baptist, served in several non-sectarian churches, including London's City Temple ("Cathedral of British Nonconformity"), before joinin'g the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1925.
* Not to be confused with the Rev. Louie De Votie Newton, president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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