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Died. Henry George Charles Lascelles (rhymes with tassels), 64, sporting, moose-tall sixth Earl of Harewood, wealthy landowner husband of George VI's only sister, Mary, Britain's Princess Royal; of a heart ailment and asthma; in Leeds, England...
Died. Louise Homer, 76, onetime (1898-1932) contralto in the Metropolitan's Golden Era of Caruso, Melba, Farrar, Scotti, Tetrazzini; of a heart ailment; in Winter Park, Fla. Daughter of a Pennsylvania minister, she launched her career at 14 by singing Ruth in a church production of Ruth and Naomi (when the lad assigned the basso-profundo role of Boaz failed to show up, Louise sang that role, too). Dependable and even-tempered in an atmosphere that earned "prima donna" its popular meaning, Presbyterian-born Mrs. Homer once balked at a role: in Faust the Met wanted...
...raised in his capital alone. Last week a onetime Canadian corvette, now called the Presidente Trujillo, lay in Ciudad Trujillo harbor; it was being fitted out with extra new cabins. Dominicans whispered that, elections over, the Benefactor would sail away for France and an operation for an old ailment...
Died. Anna Sage (real name: Ana Cumpanas), 58, the "woman in red" who 13 years ago pointed out Public Enemy John Dillinger to FBI men, who thereupon shot him dead; of a liver ailment; in Timisoara, Rumania, where she was deported in 1936 for running a Gary, Ind. brothel...
Died. Christian X, 76, King of Denmark (and until 1944, Iceland), the Wends and the Goths; of a heart ailment; in Copenhagen. The beloved monarch, Europe's tallest (6 ft. 6 in.-"I know I am too long"), remained in his little country during the war, a virtual prisoner of the occupying Germans, with whom he was coldly, contemptuously uncooperative...