Monday, Feb. 09, 1942
Birthday. Franklin D. Roosevelt; his 60th; in Washington.
Born. To Austrian Skiing Ace Siegfried Buchmayr and British Mary Banbury Buchmayr: male triplets; in Littleton, N.H.
Divorced. By Cinemactress Nancy Kelly, 20: Cinemactor Edmond O'Brien, 26; in Los Angeles.
Divorced. By Orator Francis Woodward, 56, multimillionaire gelatin heir (Jell-O): Mary Trask Woodward, his second wife; in Reno. Reported to have settled $1,000,000 on his first wife, Persis Davis Woodward, he was ordered last June to pay Wife No. 2 $42,000 a year separate maintenance.
Died. Stacy Woodard, 39, co-producer with his brother, Horace, of scientific cine-shorts (The Struggle for Life, The City of Wax); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Woodard was photographer of the documentary The River.
Died. Marion Sayle Taylor, 52, radio's "Voice of Experience"; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Squat, rain-barrel-voiced, he dispensed advice on everything from cookery to marital relations, at the peak of his popularity a few years ago drew from listeners some 30,000 anxious letters a week. He was married three times, divorced twice.
Died. Paul Knabenshue, 58, U.S. Minister to Iraq; of tetanus after an operation; in Bagdad. He signed the first commercial treaty between the U.S. and Iraq in 1938.
Died. Mrs. Hranoush Aglaganian Sidky Bey ("Madame Bey"), sixtyish, beetle-browed, square-rigged operator of the famed Bey's Training Camp for prize fighters near Summit, N.J.; of a heart attack; in Morristown, N.J. Widow of a onetime Turkish Consul General in New York, she had fed and mothered fighters on her farm for nearly 20 years. Among her "boys" were Tunney, Camera, Berlenbach, Schmeling, Battling Siki. She never bet on a fight.
Died. Major General Mason Mathews Patrick, 78, first Chief of the Army Air Service; in Washington. General Pershing put him in charge of A.E.F. Air Force development in World War I; starting with a handful of "flying coffins," he boosted the force to 45 battle-worthy squadrons in 18 months. He trained as a flyer and qualified as a pilot when he was 58.
Left. By Circusman John Ringling; to the State of Florida: some $20,000,000, the bulk of his estate. A $5,000 annuity was left to a sister, Ida Ringling North, in a codicil to an original will that left her half the estate.
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