Married. Anatole Litvak, 53, Russian-born cinema director (The Snake Pit; Sorry, Wrong Number); and Sophie Bourdein, 32, French model; both for the second time (his first: Actress Miriam Hopkins); in Las Vegas, Nev.
Divorced. By Linda Darnell, 33, brunette cinemactress (Forever Amber, Second Chance): Philip Liebmann, 40, president of Liebmann Breweries, Inc. (Rheingold); after 21 months of marriage; in Juarez, Mexico.
Died. Carter Glass Jr., 62, copublisher and general manager of the Lynchburg News and the Lynchburg Advance, son of Virginia’s late Senator Carter Glass; of a brain hemorrhage; in Lynchburg, Va.
Died. Charles Edward (“Cow Cow”) Davenport, 63, self-taught Negro composer of more than 100 songs (I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal You; Mama Don’t Allow No Easy Riders Here), onetime piano accompanist for the late Bessie Smith; of a heart attack; in Cleveland.
Died. Arthur Honegger, 63, topflight modern composer (Pacific 231, Joan of Arc at the Stake); of a heart attack in Paris. Of the modern composer’s plight, he said: “Music is dying, not from anemia, but from plethora. There is too much [talented] production and too little demand.”
Died. Major General (ret.) Carl R. Gray, 66, onetime (1947-53) Veterans Administration chief, commander of allied railways in the European theater in World War II, vice president of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway (1946-48); of a circulatory ailment; in St. Paul, Minn.
Died. Glenn Luther Martin, 69, barnstorming flyer and pioneer aircraft builder who made the first plane specifically designed for mail service, first U.S. bomber with an alloy steel fuselage, later built the China Clipper; founder of the Glenn L. Martin Co., early seaplane developer; after two years of illness; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Baltimore.
Died. Hallett Abend, 71, longtime (1927-41) chief New York Times correspondent in China, author (Ramparts of the Pacific, Japan Unmasked); of a heart attack; in Sonora, Calif.
Died. Emma Jung, 73, wife of pioneer Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (TIME, Feb. 14), and onetime vice president of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich; of a heart attack; in Kiisnacht, Switzerland.
Died. Mabel Wellington White Stimson, 89, widow of Henry L. Stimson, four-time Cabinet member under Presidents Taft (1911-13), Hoover (1929-33), Roosevelt and Truman (1940-45); in Huntington, N.Y.
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