Milestones, Apr. 22, 1940

• Share

Rumored Expecting. Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands, who, since her marriage in 1937, has presented her husband, Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, with two chubby daughters: a third child; in August or September.

Born. To Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 31, and Mary Lee Epling Fairbanks, 29, his second wife (first: Joan Crawford): their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles.

Name: Daphne. Weight: 7 lb., 7 oz.

Birthdays. Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy, 47; Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, 78 (see p. 14).

Engaged (Really). New Zealander Edgar James ("Cobber") Kain, 22, Great Britain's first World War II Ace (five Nazi kills, a possible sixth), convalescing from 20 shrapnel wounds; and his best girl Joyce Phillips, repertory actress, who doesn't believe in getting married until the war is over (TIME, April 15); after a 90-mile dash from Peterborough, where she is playing in The Importance of Being Earnest, to Birmingham to buy an engagement ring.

Married. Major George F. M. Cornwallis-West, 64; and Georgette Hirsch, 58; he for the third time (first wife: the former Jennie Jerome of New York, widow of Lord Randolph Churchill and mother of Winston Churchill; second wife: Mrs. Patrick Campbell—see p. 77); in London.

Married. "Daddy Snooks" Hanley Stafford, 35; and Vyola Vonn, 21, singer and actress; in Hollywood. Wedding guest: "Baby Snooks" Fanny Brice, 48.

Married. Comedian George Jessel, 42, onetime husband of Norma Talmadge and Florence Courtney; and Showgirl Lois Andrew, 16 and an inch or two taller than he; by a judge; in his suite in Detroit's Book-Cadillac Hotel. Jessel's friend U. S. Minister to Canada James H. R. Cromwell gave the bride away. Shouted the happy bridegroom as he tried to put the ring on the wrong finger of Mrs. Jessel III, who burst into giggles: "Somebody give my wife a drink before she falls on her beautiful puss."

Sued for Divorce. Barney Oldfield, 61, oldtime automobile daredevil; by Hulda B. Oldfield; in Los Angeles.

Divorced. Actor Franchot Tone,34; by Cinemactress Joan Crawford, 32, who in 1934 divorced Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; after sentimental get-togethers while the final decree was pending; in Los Angeles.

Divorced. Artist Rockwell Kent, 57, by Frances Lee Kent, 38, his second wife; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Died. John Alexander Cosinuke, Swarthmore College lacrosse player; day after playing in a lacrosse game at Washington and Lee University; of acute dilation of the heart; in Lexington, Va.

Died. James Francis Smith, New York City Police lieutenant, 56; of pneumonia and heart disease; in Manhattan. Biggest adventure: at 16, as a telegraph messenger boy, he traveled 12,000 miles during the Boer War to deliver a message of sympathy to President Oom Paul Kruger of the Transvaal Republic from 29,000 Philadelphia schoolboys.

Died. Honoré Willsie Morrow, 60, historical novelist (Great Captain, a Lincoln trilogy) and widow of William Morrow, book publisher; after a brief illness; in New Haven, Conn.

Died. Chief White Wolf, 72, one of the survivors of South Dakota's Wounded Knee Massacre; in an automobile crash, while en route to Washington to ask Congress to pay damages for the 1890 slaughter of Sioux by U. S. troops; in Bedford, Pa.