Married. Rosa Prado, 20, chic, Paris-born amateur flyer and horsewoman,
only daughter of Peru's President Manuel Prado y Urgarteche; and Hugo
Peter Parks, 24, tall, freckled, British-educated son of Peru's
socialite Clubwoman Mercedes Gallagher Parks and U.S. Citizen Henry W.
Parks; in Lima, Peru. Married. Signal Corps Sergeant Robert Hopkins, 23, thin-faced
photographer son of Presidential Adviser Harry Hopkins ; and Brenda Stephenson, 18, daughter of a Lancashire
engineer; in Perryvale, Middlesex, England. Married. Freeman Gosden, 45, philosophic, long-suffering “Amos” of
radio's perennial Amos 'n' Andy ; and Jane
Stoneham, 21 daughter of the New York Giants' late owner, Charles
Stoneham; he for the second time; in Scotia, Calif. Married. Dorothy Ledyard Knight, former wife of Manhattan's hooligan
Lawyer Richard Allen Knight, who once stood on his head outside the
Metropolitan Opera House; and Reville Kniffen, 39, onetime cinema
executive, now vice president of Zenith Home Products; in Reno Nev.
Fumed ex-Husband Knight: “He's nothing but a traveling salesman—a
peddler of B-pictures. . . . She's headline-crazy. Mrs. Knight will
come crawling back to me.” Killed in Action. Marine Sergeant Lee Powell, 35, circus and cinema
portrayer of the masked vigilante “The Lone Ranger” after two years'
Pacific service including Tarawa and Saipan. Died. Bella Chagall, 48, wife and only model of Russian-born,
Paris-loving Artist Marc Chagall, now painting his bucolic, sentimental
fantasies in U.S. exile; of diabetes; at Tupper Lake, N.Y. Died. Mrs. Julia Columbo, 78, mother of the late famed Bing Crosby-style
crooner, Russ Columbo; in Los Angeles. When Russ Columbo was killed in
1934 by the accidental discharge of an antique dueling pistol, his
mother was too ill with heart trouble to be told of his death, soon
after began losing her eyesight. For ten years the family kept Russ's
death secret from her, explained he was having great success in
England, read her affectionate weekly letters signed “Russ,” inclosing
the monthly $398 insurance annuity he had taken out in her favor. Died. Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, 80, British geologist, co-discoverer
with Charles Dawson of the Piltdown skull, long believed England's
oldest, near-human fossil ; in Haywards Heath,
Sussex.
