Monday, Sep. 11, 1950
Born. To George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl Jellicoe, 32, First Secretary of Britain's Washington embassy, son of the admiral who commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland,* and Countess Jellicoe, 31: their third child, first son. Name: Patrick John (Viscount Brocas). Weight: 10 Ibs.
Born. To Tony Martin, 36, butter-voiced cinemactor and nightclub crooner, and Cyd Charisse, 26, ballerina turned movie dancer (Fiesta): their first child (her second), a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Tony. Weight: 8 Ibs. 1 oz.
Married. Margaret Sullavan, 41, husky-voiced star of stage (The Voice of the Turtle) and screen (No Sad Songs for Me); and Kenneth Arthur Wagg, 41, London businessman (malted milk); she for the fourth time (previous husbands: Actor Henry Fonda, Director William Wyler, Producer-Agent Leland Hayward), he for the second; on Long Island, N.Y.
Died. Representative Alfred Lee Bulwinkle, 67, Congressman from North Carolina since 1921 (with one break, 1929-31); after long illness; in Gastonia, N.C. He was co-sponsor of the Reed-Bulwinkle bill, passed in June 1948 over President Truman's veto, to exempt common carriers from antitrust prosecution for entering into rate-fixing agreements.
Died. Sheik Mohamed Mamoun El Shinawi, 74, rector of Cairo's thousand-year-old El Azhar ("The Resplendent") University, fountainhead of Islamic orthodoxy; in Ismailia, Egypt.
Died. Edward H. Moore, 78, onetime schoolteacher who made millions in Oklahoma oil, became a U.S. Senator (1943-49); in Tulsa. A lifelong Democrat who turned against the New Deal, Moore was elected to the Senate (his first and last public office) on the Republican ticket, as an outspoken champion of rugged individualism. He was the first Republican elected Senator in Oklahoma since 1924.
Died. Frank Leslie Smith, 82, Illinois Republican, a delegate to every G.O.P. national convention from 1912 through 1948, once a U.S. Senator-elect (but never a Senator); in Dwight, Ill. Elected by a 67,000-vote margin in 1926, he was barred from office by vote of a Republican Senate on the grounds that his campaign expenditures in the primary election had been excessive and that most of the money was a slush fund: upwards of $200,000 had come from Illinois utilities magnates, including Samuel Insull, who gave $125,000, while Smith was still serving as chairman of the State Commerce Commission.
*The only grand-scale naval battle of World War I (May 31, 1916), in which the British lost 14 ships, the Germans 11.
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