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Died. Sergei M. Trufanov, 71, once known as "Iliodor, the Mad Monk of Russia," demagogic foe of Rasputin, his onetime mentor and ally; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Trufanov lost his political struggle with Rasputin, fled unfrocked to New York, went back to Russia after the Revolution with a quixotic plan to set himself up as the "Russian Pope" and revamp the Orthodox Church to suit the Bolsheviks. Embittered and disillusioned, he came back to the U.S. for good in 1921, became a Baptist, got work as a janitor, passed his final decades in obscurity...
Died. Veteran Comedienne Polly (Pauline Theresa) Moran, 66, who starred in early Mack Sennett two-reelers, hit her peak as Marie Dressler's sparring partner in such early-talkie slapstick wrangles as Prosperity, Caught Short; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood...
Died. Sveinn Björnsson, 70, Iceland's president (twice reelected) since its Parliament broke its last bond with Nazi-dominated Denmark in 1944 and proclaimed the island an independent republic ; of a heart ailment; in Reykjavik...
Invitation (M-G-M), based on a story by Jerome Weidman, bears an astonishing resemblance to Henry James's chilling classic, The Wings of the Dove. Like James's Milly, Dorothy McGuire is a poor little rich girl doomed to an early death from an incurable heart ailment, and her plight provides an opportunity for a pair of fortune hunters. When the film opens, Dorothy-unaware that she has only a few months to live-is being showered with expensive gifts by her grieving father, Louis Calhern, and with little attentions by her husband, Van Johnson. Between presents...
Died. Walter 0. (for Owen) Briggs, 74, founder and board chairman of the Briggs Manufacturing Co., largest independent auto-body maker in the U.S., and since 1936 sole owner of the Detroit Tigers; of a kidney ailment; at his winter home in Miami Beach, Fla. The up-from-the-shop son of a locomotive engineer, Briggs at 27 was a junior magnate in Detroit's mushrooming car production. In 1907, after having trouble getting tickets to see the Tigers in their first World Series, he resolved that some day he would give Detroit a ball park with enough seats...