Monday, Jan. 29, 1940

Born. To Louise Carnegie Miller Thomson, 20, granddaughter and heiress-apparent of the late fabulous Andrew Carnegie; and James Frederick Gordon Thomson, 43, sporty Edinburgh lawyer: their first child, a daughter; on the Carnegie estate, Skibo Castle, Scotland. Once reminisced an old Skibo servant: "I'll not forget the way he [Carnegie] looked up at the castle with that queer smile o' his. 'Steel built yon hame,' the auld mon said, 'but it's love that'll keep it together when I'm called away!'"

Married. Lieutenant Sabiha Gokgen, 25, only woman officer in the Turkish air corps, adopted daughter of late Dictator-President Kamal Atatuerk of Turkey; and Captain Kamal Esiner, aviator; in Ankara.

Married. Benvenuta Rose Crooke Kelley (Benay Venuta), 27, Broadwayfaring songstress and comedienne (Anything Goes, Kiss the Boys Good-Bye); and Armand S. Deutsch Jr., 27, Manhattan adman; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan.

Died. Prince Christopher of Greece, 51, youngest brother of the late King Constantine, uncle of George II of the Hellenes, uncle of the Duchess of Kent, known to the U. S. for his marriage to wealthy Mrs. William B. Leeds; from a lung abscess; in Athens.

Died. Edwin Carewe, 56, oldtime cinema director (Ramona, Resurrection, etc.) ; of heart disease; in Hollywood.

Died. Giuseppe Motta, 69, five-time (1915-20-27-32-37) President of Switzerland, onetime Foreign Minister, Catholic-Conservative party leader, president, in 1924, of the League of Nations Assembly; at Berne.

Died. Major General Omar Bundy, U. S. A., 78, much-decorated veteran of 40 years of campaigning (Sioux Indians, Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, World War I--in which, to a French order to retire at Chteau-Thierry, he replied: "We are going to counter-attack." and did); after a two-year illness; in Washington.

Died. J. (for Joshua) Bertram Lippincott, 82, urbane board chairman of J. P. Lippincott Co. (book publishers), famed for a handsome goatee and for being third Lippincott to be a Lippincott president; of a cerebral hemorrhage during pneumonia; in Philadelphia.

Died. One of the three pet canaries (all pure yellow without mark of any other color) of Pope Pius XII; in Vatican City. While the Pope lunches, as according to court etiquette he must alone, he used to let them out of their cage to fly around him.

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