Monday, May. 19, 1952
Married. Senator Alexander Wiley, 67, of Wisconsin, ranking Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Judiciary Committees; and British-born Dorothy May Kydd, 41, secretary to Washington Attorney John F. Clagett; both for the second time; in Alexandria, Va.
Died. Canada Lee, 45, top-ranking Negro actor of screen (Cry, the Beloved Country) and stage (Native Son), who was a jockey, prizefighter and leader of an unsuccessful jazz band before he got his start in the theater in 1934 as Banquo in the WPA all-Negro production of Macbeth; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Dr. Clark Leonard Hull, 67, Sterling Professor of Psychology at Yale University and author (Principles of Behavior, Hypnosis and Suggestibility); of a heart attack; in New Haven. In his lifelong effort to bring psychology closer to exact science, Dr. Hull contended that mathematics can be used for an orderly and scientific measurement of human behavior.
Died. William Fox, 73, onetime grand panjandrum of Hollywood, producer of such hits as Cleopatra (with Theda Bara), Seventh Heaven and What Price Glory; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Born in Tulchva, Hungary, ex-Newsboy and ex-Garment Worker Fox launched himself in the entertainment world when he used his $1,666.66 savings to buy a rundown Brooklyn nickelodeon. In 1915 he formed the Fox Film Corp., pyramided it (on paper) by 1929 into a $300 million empire, amassed a personal fortune of $35 million. But the cost of equipping 1,100 Fox theaters for talking pictures proved his undoing. The empire crumbled during the Depression, and bald, sad-eyed Fox was driven out by a coalition of creditors. He went into bankruptcy in 1936, five years later was sentenced to a year and a day and fined $3,000 for conspiring to obstruct justice in connection with his bankruptcy. Afterwards, he lived quietly in Woodmere, L.I., where he practiced his favorite hobby: golf.
Died. Rollin Kirby, 76, three-time (1921, 1924, 1928) Pulitzer Prizewinning cartoonist for the late New York World; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see PRESS).
Died. Alessio Cardinal Ascalesi, 79, Archbishop of Naples and No. 1 ranking member of the College of Cardinals in point of service; after long illness; in Naples. His death leaves 23 vacancies in the 70-member College.
Died. Dr. Maria Montessori, 81, Italian pioneer in education, whose world-famous Montessori system for schools has been both adopted and opposed in Europe, Asia and the Americas; in Noordwijk, The Netherlands (see EDUCATION).
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