Monday, Jul. 28, 1952

Married. Nackey Elizabeth Scripps Gallowhur, 28, granddaughter of News-magnate E. W. Scripps; and William Loeb, 46, Old Guard Republican publisher of the Manchester (N.H.) Union-Leader; both for the second time; in Reno.

Married. Mrs. John J. Raskob, 67, widow of the Manhattan financier and onetime (1928-32) chairman of the Democratic National Committee; and John P. Corcoran, fiftyish, grass-seed executive, who formerly managed Raskob's Maryland farm; she for the second time, he for the first; in Tucson, Ariz.

Died. Sir Hugh Cairns, 56, professor of surgery at Oxford University and world-famed brain surgeon (among his patients: General George Patton, Lawrence of Arabia); after long illness; in Oxford.

Died. Mrs. Alice Warder Garrett, sixtyish, great lady of Baltimore society and widow of John W. Garrett, Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to Italy; of a heart attack; in Baltimore. A longtime patron of the arts, she was the main support of Baltimore's Musical Arts Quartet, a chamber music group for which she built a special theater in her home.

Died. Norman Stephen Taber, 60, financial consultant, managing director of the U.S. Council of the International Chamber of Commerce, former (1948-49) budget director of ECA, and for eight years (1915-23) holder of the world's record for the mile run (4 min. 12.6 sec.);* of cancer; in Orange, N.J.

Died. Sisley Huddleston, 69, author (In My Time, With The Marshal) and for nearly 20 years between World Wars I and II European correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor; of a heart attack; in Saint-Pierre-d'Autils, France. Throughout the Occupation he stayed in France, published The Myth of Liberty, an attack on the democracies, and won French citizenship from Vichyite Marshal Henri Petain. In 1944, after the Normandy landing, he was arrested but subsequently released by Free French forces.

Died. Frau Elly Heuss-Knapp, 71, wife of Theodor Heuss, President of the West German Federal Republic; after long illness; in Bonn. The daughter of Economist George Knapp, she founded the first evening school for women in Strasbourg when she was only 19. When the Nazis burned her husband's books and banned him from teaching in Berlin, Frau Heuss-Knapp supported the family by writing jingles for soap ads.

Died. The Rev. Dr. Frederick Herbert Sill, 78, founder and headmaster emeritus of the Kent School; in Kent, Conn.

(see EDUCATION).

*Present record: 4 min. 1.4 sec., set by Sweden's Gunder Haegg in 1945.

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