Monday, Sep. 29, 1952

Married. Beatriz Aleman Velasco, 18, only daughter of Mexico's President Miguel Aleman; and Carlos Giron Peltier, 28, Mexico City attorney; in Mexico City.

Married. Senator Charles William Tobey, 72, New Hampshire Republican; and Mrs. Lillian Crompton, sixtyish, a longtime friend and neighbor; he for the third time (he was twice a widower), she for the second; in Wilton, N.H.

Marriage Revealed. Marshal Josip Broz Tito, 60, Premier of Yugoslavia; and Jovanka Budisavljevic, 28, former partisan fighter, now a major in the Yugoslav army; he for the third time, she for the first; in Belgrade (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. William ("Bronco Bill") Schindler, 43, auto racer and first (1940) president of the American Racing Drivers' Club; in a racing crash; in Allentown, Pa. Despite losing a leg in a 1936 speedway accident, Schindler continued racing, appeared at Indianapolis three times, twice (1948-49) won the national midget racing championship.

Died. Joseph Hudson Short Jr., 48, President Truman's press secretary; of a heart attack; at his home in Alexandria, Va. Short began his newspapering on the Jackson (Miss.) News, for almost two decades worked in the Washington bureau of the Associated Press and the Baltimore Sun, in 1950 succeeded Press Secretary Charles G. Ross, who had died of a heart attack at his desk in the White House.

Died. H. T. (Harold Tucker) Webster, 67, cartoonist ("The Timid Soul," "Life's Darkest Moment," "The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime") of a heart attack; on a train near Bridgeport, Conn. Webster's most popular creation was fluttery, myopic Caspar Milquetoast, but he was nearly as well-known for his cartooned jibes at bridge and canasta fiends, radio & TV (for which he received a Peabody Award in 1950), wives who never understand a joke, and for his knowing, sometimes poignant recollections of a turn-of-the-century childhood.

Died. Mme. Frances Alda, 69, longtime (1908-29) Metropolitan Opera soprano; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Venice. With typical bluntness, red-haired Soprano Alda once described her marriage (1910-28) to Met Director Gatti-Casazza as "a sensible arrangement between a man and a woman who liked and respected each other ..." Vacationing in Venice last week with her second husband, Manhattan Advertising Executive Ray Vir Den, she had a fatal stroke 36 hours before they were to hear Old Friend Toscanini conduct at La Scala.*

* Not told of Mme. Alda's death until after the performance, Toscanini conducted believing that she was watching from the Toscanini box.

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