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Married. Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, 21 ; and Leopold Antoni Stokowski, sixtyish;*he for the third time, she for the second; one day after her divorce from Pasquale ("Pat") di Cicco; in Mexicali, Mexico...
...which she had just learned to drive, Gloria released the clutch as he crossed in front of the car. Only a cadenza-like leap saved him. Unruffled, the heiress drove him to her Lake Tahoe cabin while Manhattan friends & relatives dispatched frantic wires warning her not to marry the sixtyish conductor. Working on the side of the anti-romancers was 1) Stoky's shingles, 2) the weather (which did Stoky's neuritis no good), 3) the carbolated vaseline (to rub on his chest...
...Sixtyish, pince-nezed Harry Burke of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat voted for Missourian Fred Conway's Kids, a noisy battle waged by a back-lot army of small...
Died. Caradoc Evans, sixtyish, Welsh novelist and playwright (Taffy), bitter critic of his own countrymen; of pneumonia; in Aberystwyth, Wales. He was frequently burned in effigy and denounced from Welsh pulpits for his anti-Welsh sentiments (example: "A Welsh choir's preliminary cough is often the most musical part of its performance"), was also so secretive that his own wife did not know his exact...
...armistice. Among his ministers: an author and student of agrarian reform; a history professor jailed by Horthy for "subversive activities" ; a geology professor and cousin of Count Paul Teleki, ex-Premier who committed suicide in April 1941. Notably absent was Hungary's top Communist, Matyas Rakosi, sixtyish, stout ex-commissar in the Communist Government of Béla Kun after World War I, later vice president of the Comintern. Rakosi presumably was in Moscow...