Monday, Jul. 06, 1942
Married. Dorothy Maynor, 31, famed Negro soprano; and the Rev. Shelby Rooks, 36, head of the divinity school of Lincoln University, near Oxford, Pa.; in Princeton, NJ.
Married. Actor John Emery, 37, ex-husband of Tallulah Bankhead; and Dancer Tamara Geva, 35, ex-wife of Choreographer George Balanchine (now the husband of Dancer Vera Zorina); in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Sued for Divorce. Julius ("Groucho") Marx; by Ruth Marx; after 21 years; in Los Angeles. She charged the loping, rapid-fire comedian with causing her "physical pain and mental anguish."
Died. John Work Garrett, 70, retired career diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Italy from 1929 to 1933; in Baltimore. Onetime Minister to Venezuela (1910-11), Argentina (1911-14), The Netherlands and Luxembourg (1917-19), he served as secretary general of the Washington arms limitation conference.
Died. Wilbur John Carr, 71, "father of the American Foreign Service"; of a heart attack; in Baltimore. A member of the Department of State for 47 years, he was largely responsible for reforms which tended to take foreign service out of politics and to put it on a merit basis. He became Assistant Secretary of State in 1924 under Secretary Charles Evans Hughes, resigned the post in 1937 to become Minister to Czecho Slovakia, retired in 1939.
Died. Ernest Bramah Smith (pen name: Ernest Bramah), 74, British writer of detective fiction (The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, Max Carrados); in Somerset, England. A popular writer for some 40 years, he managed to keep his private life so private that little was known about him except that he had once lived in China, the scene of his famed Kai Lung stories. His widow asked that the place he died in be permitted to remain unnamed.
Died. William James Tatem, Lord Glanely, 74, Welsh shipping tycoon, famed breeder and racer of horses; killed by a German bomb; in a southwest English coast town. He founded one of the world's greatest stud farms, at Exning, once had more horses in training than the Aga Khan and Lord Derby, won more than 500 races. His Grand Parade won the Derby in 1919.
Died. Henry Parish, 82, vice president of the Bank of New York, family friend of the Franklin D. Roosevelts; of a heart ailment; in Llewellyn Park, N.J. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were married in his Manhattan house. His widow, Susan Ludlow Parish, is Eleanor Roosevelt's second cousin and godmother.
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