Monday, Dec. 08, 1952
Married. Nancy Nugent, 19, actress (The Male Animal) and daughter of Elliott Nugent, Broadway actor-playwright-producer; and Francis de Bethencourt, 29, sometime cinemactor; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan.
Died. Sister Elizabeth Kenny, 66, Australian nurse who discovered a new treatment for infantile paralysis (hot packs and massage); of a cerebral thrombosis; in Toowoomba, Australia (see MEDICINE).
Died. Elena, 79, ex-Queen of Italy, Consort of the late King Victor Emmanuel III; in Montpellier, France. A towering (6 ft.), black-haired princess of the Black Mountain (her father was Nicholas, Chieftain of Balkan Montenegro), Elena was courted by tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Victor Emmanuel (then Prince of Naples) at the coronation of Czar Nicholas II in St. Petersburg. When the shy, awed prince fell in love with her, she was a daredevil horsewoman, had rustic manners and a deep, resonant voice. Married in 1896, they ascended the throne in 1900, where they remained until exiled in 1946.
Died. Theresa Capone, 85, mother of eight children, including three blacksheep --Matt, Ralph and Al; in Chicago.
Died. Vladimir Nikolaevich Ipatieff, 85, Russia's chief of chemical research during World War I, who developed a polymerization process for making high-octane gasoline; in Chicago.
Died. Sven Anders Hedin, 87, Swedish author-explorer (The Silk Road, Riddles of the Gobi Desert) who did more than anyone since Marco Polo to unveil the geographical mysteries of Central Asia; of cerebral inflammation; in Stockholm. He retraced the ancient silk routes from Cathay to Tyre and, in a series of expeditions covering half a century (1885-1935), put names and colors into blank areas of Asian atlases. At home on Asia's plains, he often got lost in the jungle of closer-to-home politics. A fervent admirer of Hitler ("one of the greatest men in world history"), he declared in 1944 that "Germany was never a danger to British soil, and far less to American."
Died. Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, 92, onetime (1917-19) Italian Premier and last of the "Big Four," who (with Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau) drafted the World War I peace treaty; in Rome (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Died. Walter Arlington ("Arlie") Latham, 93, oldtime (1885-88) third baseman for the old St. Louis Browns, whose hard-hitting (.303 in 1886), base-stealing (his claim: "About 150 a year") performances helped St. Louis win its first World Series in 1886; in Garden City, N.Y.
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