Monday, Jan. 01, 1951
Married. Deanna Durbin, 29, onetime cinema songbird (100 Men and a Girl); and Charles Henri David, 44, French movie director; she for the third time, he for the second; in Sarreguemines, France.
Married. Jean Simmons, 21, doe-eyed British cinemactress (Ophelia in Olivier's Hamlet); and Stewart Granger, 37, No. 1 movie idol of British bobby-soxers; she for the first time, he for the second; in Tucson, Ariz.
Died. Lieut. General Walton Harris Walker, 61, commander of the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea; in a jeep accident; north of Seoul (see WAR IN ASIA).
Died. Count Konrad, Cardinal von Preysing-Lichtenegg-Moos, 70, since 1935 Roman Catholic bishop of Berlin; in Berlin. Bora into an ancient Bavarian family, strapping Count Konrad gave up a diplomatic career at 28 to enter the priesthood. As bishop of Berlin, under both Nazi and Communist rulers, he defiantly spoke up for Christian principles.
Died. Hattie Wyatt Caraway, 72, first woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate;* in Falls Church, Va. Widow of eloquent, acid-tongued Senator (1921-31) Thaddeus Horatius Caraway of Arkansas, she was appointed to his seat by Governor Harvey Parnell, got elected to full terms in '32 and '38. She sat quietly in the Senate for 13 years, always dressed in black, made about one speech a year, voted the straight New Deal line.
Died. Mrs. Ida Ringling North, 76, only sister of the Ringling brothers who founded Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows Inc., mother of John Ringling North, the circus' current president; in Sarasota, Fla.
Died. Sallie Lindsay White, 81, widow of famed Editor (the Emporia Gazette) William Allen White (1868-1944), mother of Author-Editor William Lindsay (They Were Expendable) White; in Emporia, Kans.
Died. Walter Johannes Damrosch, 88, German-born music man who spent a full life as conductor, impresario and master of ceremonies bringing classical music to U.S. listeners, found time to do some composing of his own (The Man Without a Country); in Manhattan. During the '30s, his Friday-morning radio hour introduced the masters to millions of schoolchildren. "Realizing the joys that music can bring to men," he once said, "I have done my utmost to spread its gospel."
*But not the first woman Senator. In October 1922, Georgia's Governor Thomas W. Hardwick appointed 87-year-old Rebecca Latimer Felton, widow of a U.S. Representative, to the seat left vacant by the death of Tom Watson. She was a Senator for two days.
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