Monday, Jan. 15, 1951
Married. John William Maxwell ("Max") Aitken, 40, wartime R.A.F. ace, onetime Tory M.P., son of Britain's No. 1 newspaper tycoon, Lord Beaverbrook; and Violet de Trafford, 24, baronet's daughter; he for the third time, she for the first; in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
Died. Richard Hart, 35, actor of stage (The Happy Time), screen (Green Dolphin Street) and TV (Ellery Queen); of a coronary occlusion; in Manhattan.
Died. Kenneth Burt Griffin, 43, Chicago radio voice (actor, announcer, master of ceremonies), familiar to serial fans as Vic Hardy of ABC's Jack Armstrong; of undetermined causes; in Chicago.
Died. Richard Julius Herman Krebs ("Jan Valtin"), 45, who pursued a sordid international course as Communist revolutionary, San Quentin jailbird, roving OGPU agent and fugitive, then told all in 1941's bestselling Out of the Night; of pneumonia; in Chestertown, Md. After barely escaping deportation, German-born Author Krebs served as a combat soldier in the Pacific, became a U.S. citizen and president of a Chestertown P.T.A.
Died. Walter Rautenstrauch, 70, longtime Columbia University professor of industrial engineering, a founder-leader in the Depression-born technocracy movement (he abandoned it in 1933); in Manhattan.
Died. Albert Summers Howell, 71, co-founder of Bell & Howell Co. (movie cameras), inventor, in moviemaking's pioneer days, of devices and techniques which took the flicker out of movies; in Chicago.
Died. Dr. Francis Carter Wood, 81, longtime head of Columbia University's Crocker Institute for Cancer Research; in Englewood, NJ. Practical-minded Dr. Wood greeted most reports of new cancer preventives and cures with bluff skepticism, devoted himself to improving existing surgical and radiological means of treatment.
Died. Samuel D. Riddle, 89, textiles heir and horseman, owner of the late great Man o' War and his illustrious son War Admiral; in Glen Riddle, Pa. Riddle always insisted that it was his own idea to buy one-year-old Man o' War for $5,000 --although "you'll hear 50 persons tell how they influenced me."
Died. Bushman, 22, Cameroons-born Chicago celebrity, since 1930 the star attraction at Lincoln Park Zoo; of a heart attack; in Chicago. One of the biggest (550 Ibs.) and most ferocious-looking gorillas ever seen in a zoo, Bushman loved spectators, endeared himself to them with good-natured hamming.
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