Monday, May. 15, 1950
Married. Elizabeth Taylor, 18, cinemactress (Father of the Bride); and Conrad ("Nick") Hilton Jr., 23, son of the hotel magnate; in Beverly Hills, Calif. (see PEOPLE).
Married. Libeth Adenauer, 22, youngest daughter of West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer; and Hermann Josef Werhahn, 26, son of a Ruhr banker; at Maria Laach, Germany.
Married. Mischa Auer, 44, perch-eyed film comic (For You I Die); and Suzanne Kalish, 21, daughter of a New York chemical exporter; she for the first time, he for the third; in Rome.
Died. Agnes Smedley, 56, Missouri-born journalist, Daily Worker contributor, fervent propagandist for a Communist China (China Fights Back), free-lance foreign correspondent in Soviet-dominated lands; after long illness; in Oxford, England.
Died. William Rose Benet, 64, Pulitzer Prize poet (The Dust Which Is God), brother of the late Stephen Vincent (John Brown's Body) Benet, husband (1923-28) of the late poet Elinor Wylie; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Moody William Benet, editor of the recent Reader's Encyclopedia of world literature and arts, once defined a poet as simply "a man who takes his craft seriously."
Died. Clarence A. Dykstra, 67, former President of the University of Wisconsin (1937-45), more recently provost of the University of California at Los Angeles; of a heart attack; in Laguna Beach, Calif. Dr. Dykstra acted as chief of the Selective Service System for a year, resigned in 1941 to head briefly the National Defense Mediation Board.
Died. Frank A. Tichenor, 69, untiring advocate of air power, publisher of Aero Digest, onetime owner of the New Outlook (with the late Al Smith editing); in Greenwich, Conn.
Died. Dr. Victor Manuel Roman y Reyes, 77, mild-mannered, figurehead President of Nicaragua since 1947, uncle and loyal retainer of strong-arm Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza; after an operation for cancer; in Philadelphia.
Died. Joseph Hampton Moore, 86, twice mayor of Philadelphia (1920-23, 1932-35), eight times a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives; after long illness; in Germantown, Pa.
Died. John Deferrari, 87, an unschooled fruit peddler who saved, studied and invested his earnings from a successful grocery business until he was able to give the Boston Public Library $1,000,000; of a heart attack; in Boston.
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