Married. James Paul Warburg, 52, politically volatile author-economist scion of the banking Warburg family, onetime New Deal braintruster; and Joan Melber, 24, his secretary; he for the third time, she for the first; in Bronxville, N.Y.
Died. Marshal Pavel Semyonovich Rybalko, fortyish, billiard-bald commander in chief of Soviet armored, tank and mechanized troops, who led his tank army into a spectacular breakthrough on the Ukrainian front in December 1943; after long illness; in Moscow.
Died. Helen Lee Worthing, fiftyish, faded onetime Ziegfeld Follies dancer who was once pressagented as “the most beautiful girl in the world”; of seconal poisoning; in Los Angeles. After a few parts in silent movies, she married a Negro physician, Dr. Eugene Nelson, was dropped by the studios, eventually moved on to drink, dope and sanitariums.
Died. Juliana Force, 67, autocratic director of New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, longtime good angel to struggling U.S. artists; after long illness; in Manhattan. As friend and secretary to Sculptress-Art Patroness Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, she began to buy and exhibit promising paintings in 1908, turned the Whitney’s annual exhibition into a bellwether of contemporary U.S. painting.
Died. Charles H. (“Uncle Charlie”) Graham, 70, president of the San Francisco Seals baseball club, known as “the Connie Mack of the minor leagues”; of pneumonia; in San Francisco. Graham was a highly successful developer of young talent, sold more than $1,000,000 worth to the big leagues (including such greats as “Lefty” Gomez, Paul Waner and the DiMaggios).
Died. Oley Speaks, 74, shy bachelor composer and longtime A.S.C.A.P. director (1924-43), whose 250 songs and ballads included music for such oldtime favorites as Sylvia (his own favorite) and On the Road to Mandalay (he had never been there); after long illness; in Manhattan.
Died. Maud Charlesworth Booth, 82, national commander of the Volunteers of America, known as “the little mother of the prison world” for her work in prison reform and the rehabilitation of ex-convicts; in Great Neck, N.Y. Married in 1887 to the son of the Salvation Army’s founder, she and her husband left the Salvation Army in 1896 to found the Volunteers, which eventually, in the U.S., grew to rival its parent organization.
Died. Charles Evans Hughes, 86, eleventh Chief Justice of the United States; in Osterville, Mass, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).
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