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Died. Eugene du Pont, 81, a director of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. and great-grandson of its founder, father of Ethel du Pont Warren, onetime wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.; after long illness; in Wilmington...
Died. Charles Francis Adams (TIME, Nov. 4, 1946), 87, great-great-grandson of President John Adams, great-grandson of John Quincy, cousin of Henry, yachtsman and onetime Secretary of the Navy (1929-33); after long illness; in Boston. He became an ardent Hoover supporter, but as Navy Secretary bitterly opposed Hoover's reductions in naval appropriations. America's leading yachtsman, he skippered the Resolute to victory over the late Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV in the 1920 America's Cup races, at the age of 73 brought off an unparalleled sweep of U.S. yachting...
...mother's picture. "All doubts were flung aside," he said. "It was John, all right." Last week, no longer lonely, Fred Jaques was happily reunited at a family party not only with his lost son and a daughter-in-law, but with five grandchildren and a great-grandson, aged one. They had lived less than two miles apart for more than 25 years. "It's odd," Fred told John, "to think that you must have given me a bus ticket hundreds of times, and neither of us ever wondered who the other...
Married. Jay Gould III, 32, namesake and great-grandson of the fabulous railroad financier; and Lina Romay, 29, dark-eyed songstress of stage (Michael Todd's Peep Show) and screen (The Man Behind the Gun); he for the third time, she for the second; in Los Angeles...
With reference to the June 1 item on the death of Andrew Jackson IV, great-grandson of President Andrew Jackson: Andrew Jackson "IV" was my mess sergeant in World War I, and I seem to remember that he explained his name to me as some adoption, saying that he was not a lineal descendant of the seventh President...