Monday, Jul. 20, 1942
Married. Barbara Hutton, 30, Woolworth heiress ("the richest girl in the world"), and Cinemactor Archibald Alexander Leach (cinemonicker: Gary Grant), 38; she for the third time, he for the second; at Lake Arrowhead, Calif. She divorced her first husband, Georgian Prince Alexis Mdivani, in 1935, her second, Danish Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, in 1941; Grant was divorced by Cinemactress Virginia Cherrill in 1934.
Died. Dr. Refik Saydam, 61, Premier of Turkey; of a heart attack; in Istanbul (see p. 27).
Died. Joseph John McAuliffe, 65, famed election forecaster, managing editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat for 26 years; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in St. Louis. In 26 years he guessed wrong on the Presidential elections only twice, on the Missouri gubernatorial elections only once. He retired in 1941.
Died. Ludwig Lore, 67, veteran labor editor, Socialist leader; in Brooklyn, N.Y. Editor of the New Yorker Volkszeitung from 1919 to 1931, he joined the Communists after the Socialist Party split in 1920, helped frame the Communist Party platform, was thrown out by the Communists in 1925.
Died. Thomas F. Dorsey Sr., 70, music teacher and school bandmaster, father of famed Swingsters Tommy (trombone) and Jimmy (sax & clarinet); in Philadelphia. He started giving his sons woodwind lessons when they were little boys.
Died. Marshal Louis Felix Marie Francois Franchet d'Esperey, 86, hero of World War I; near Albi, France. Early in the first Battle of the Marne, he was made commander of the French 5th Army. As commander in chief of the Allied forces in the Balkans in 1918, he moved against the Central Powers from the port of Salonika, drove Bulgaria out of the war and forced the capitulation of Turkey. Aside from Petain he was France's only living Marshal.
Died. Casper Warren Briggs, 96, pioneer maker and distributor of magic-lantern slides; in Atlantic City. His "slip slide," showing figures that moved across a background, was one of the earliest forms of the motion picture.
Left. By the late Sir Abe Bailey, South African sportsman and gold mine tycoon: an estate valued at more than $2,000,000. His will leaves a quarter of it in trust "for the advancement, strengthening and development of the South African people," a $40,000 yearly income for his widow, and $400 each to Winston Churchill, the Duchess of Newcastle, the Marquess of Londonderry, and Horse Trainer Reginald Day.
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