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Died. Charles Prendergast, 79, artist brother of the late Impressionist Maurice, reviver of a long-neglected Italian Renaissance technique of painting; in Norwalk, Conn. Prendergast produced gleamingly rich paintings like Persian miniatures by a process called "incised gesso": etching an outline on a plaster-and-glue base, then applying egg tempera and liberal quantities of gold leaf...
Died. Field Marshal Viscount Gort (John Standish Surtees Prendergast Ve-reker), 59, former Chief of the Imperial General Staff, commander of the ill-fated 1940 British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium; after an operation; in London. A wearer of the Old School. Tie but a tough professional soldier, he won the Victoria Cross in World War I for directing from a stretcher an attack across the Canal du Nord near Cambrai. In World War II he led the British in one of their finest hours (the heroic retreat from Dunkirk), held Malta through the racking bombing...
Last week Justice Dennistoun swore in Missouri-born Ewen Alexander McPherson, 65, as the new Chief Justice succeeding James Emile Prendergast, 86. Justice Dennistoun used the occasion to rip into the Free Press. He roared that its editorial was "as treacherous as the attack made by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor. It can be compared only to a raid on a hospital ship flying the Red Cross or a mercy ship with all lights burning and no means of defense available...
Born. To Don Ameche, 32, cinemactor, and Honore Prendergast Ameche, 32, a son, their fourth, five weeks after the release of his latest movie, Four Sons: in Hollywood...
Married. Jacqueline Vereker, 25, daughter of John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker (Viscount Gort), Commander of the B. E. F. ; and Captain W. P. Sidney, 28, of the Grenadier Guards; in London...