Monday, Jul. 13, 1942
Born. To the Duchess of Kent, 35, formerly Princess Marina of Greece: her third child, second son; at Coppins, Iver, Buckinghamshire, England. Weight: 7 Ib. 4 oz. The infant (not yet named) is sixth in the line of direct succession to England's throne.
Marriage Revealed. Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll, 36; and seafaring ex-Cinemactor Stirling Hayden, 26; three months ago; in an undisclosed New England town. Her first husband was Captain Philip Astley, a London real-estate broker, whom she divorced in 1939. Hayden, who quit Hollywood after a brief career, said his wife would soon quit, too.
Died. Daniel Willard, 81, last of the old-line, up-from-the-tracks U.S. railroad presidents, savior of the Baltimore & Ohio; in Baltimore. Farm-born Uncle Dan started railroading in 1880 as a tie-tamper, wound up bossing the giant B. & 0. for 32 years. Unlike most railroaders, Dan Willard got along with labor, was regarded as a liberal by his good friend President Roosevelt.
Died. William Henry Jackson, 99, pioneer photographer of the West; of complications following a fall; in Manhattan. At 22, a Civil War veteran who had fought with the Army of the Potomac, he escorted migrant Mormons over the Oregon Trail, drove a mule train over the Rockies, rode herd on 300 mustangs bound from Sacramento to Omaha. He photographed the building of the Union Pacific, the boom days of Cripple Creek and Leadville, made camera records of the Indians and frontiersmen of the Wyoming Territory, gave stay-at-home Easterners their first graphic pictures of the West.
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