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Born. To Francis Xavier Shields, 30, onetime No. 1 U.S. tennist, and Donna Marina Torlonia Shields, 24, daughter of Princess Torlonia and the late Prince Torlonia of Italy: a son, Francis Alexander (7¾ lb.); in Manhattan...
...busy propheteering for Moral ReArmament to write his stockbroker father oftener than every six weeks (and then in letters "full of religious fervor"), elegant little British Davis Cup Tennist Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin suffered public paternal rebuke. Cried Austin pere to London's press: "I have not answered his letters because there is nothing I can usefully say. I have been told I ought to be proud of Bunny for his good work. I should be much prouder if I were taking him to Buckingham Palace to receive...
Divorced. William du Pont Jr., 46, banker-sportsman member of the Wilmington Du Ponts; from Jean Austin du Pont, his wife for 22 years; for cruelty; in Reno. Brushing aside questions about whether he meant to marry Tennist Alice Marble, Banker du Pont rushed to pack his bags, fly to see his Fairy Chant lose the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap...
Engaged. Dorothy B. Andrus, granddaughter of the late, subway-riding "Millionaire Straphanger" John E. Andrus, and Wightman Cup tennist, who married her first husband three times in a year, in 1933 divorced him; and Charles E. Voorhees, member of the Pennsylvania Legislature; in Philadelphia...
...last fight, many a boxer has turned barkeep. Joe Madden, onetime lightweight, is probably the only ex-pug who can trace his clicking cash register to his ability to write rather than fight. One night last week 500 of Madden's loyal customers jammed his Manhattan-cafe. Tennist Alice Marble sang, Sportswriter Richards Vidmer helped wait on table. They rang up $1,500 in his cash register-not for Joe Madden but for New York City's needy kids...