Word: ariz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Emmett McLoughlin, 42, Franciscan priest who quit the order last December when his superior insisted that he give up his post as hospital superintendent in Phoenix, Ariz. (TIME, Dec. 13); and Mary Davis, 34, medical stenographer; she for the third time; at a civil ceremony, in Buckeye, Ariz...
Divorced. By Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, 43, F.D.R.'s only daughter and onetime newspaperwoman turned magazine editor, who now gives a daily radio commentary with her mother: second husband John Boettiger, 49, erstwhile Hearstling; after 14 years of marriage, one child; in Phoenix, Ariz...
Died. Lieut. General Barton K. Yount (ret.), 65, who supervised the instruction of over 2,000,000 World War II flyers and technicians at 453 training schools; at Oak Creek Lodge, Ariz...
Convicted traitor Mildred ("Axis Sally") Gillars asked a U.S. court why she couldn't get out of prison on bail now that the Government was letting convicted spy Judith Coplon "roam the streets unmolested." In Phoenix, Ariz., ex-Publisher John Boettiger filed a divorce complaint against the former Anna Roosevelt, charging extreme mental cruelty. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Boettiger announced that she would file one against him, charging desertion...
...battle. Director D. W. Griffith demonstrated that the jerky, flickering motion picture could be a dramatic form with sweep and magnificence. M.G.M's Louis B. Mayer ran a cheap variety theater in Haverhill, Mass, into a cinema empire. Oilman Edward L. Doheny, a gold prospector from Tombstone, Ariz., found a fortune beneath his feet and exploited the vast oil wealth of Los Angeles. Donald Douglas and "Dutch" Kindel-berger built air armadas, and restless Henry Kaiser, fabricator of dams & ships, gave southern California its first complete steel plant...