Monday, Feb. 02, 1953

Married. Georgia Neese Clark, 52, Richland, Kans. banker and outgoing Democratic Treasurer of the U.S. (she was the first woman Treasurer, and her signature appears on all U.S. folding money printed since mid-1949); and Andrew J. Gray, 40, Washington public-relations counsel and onetime Boston Post reporter; she for the second time, he for the first; in Alexandria, Va.

Married. Dulcie Hofmann Steinhardt, fiftyish, widow of Laurence A. Steinhardt, onetime (1939-41) troubleshooting U.S. Ambassador to Russia who was killed in the crash of an embassy plane while Ambassador to Canada in 1950; and Air Force Major General Lucas V. Beau, 57, national commander of the Civil Air Patrol and wartime commanding general of the Mediterranean Air Transport Service in Africa and Italy; both for the second time; in Rockville Centre, N.Y.

Died. John C. Montgomery, 42, bachelor chief of the State Department's Finnish desk; by his own hand (hanging); in Washington, in a Georgetown home that he shared with Lawyer-Socialite A. Marvin Braverman, sometime dinner escort of Margaret Truman.

Died. Roger William Riis, 58, Reader's Digest roving editor who specialized in exposing food & drug rackets and airing consumer grievances ("The Truth About Smoking," "The Repairman Will Gyp You If You Don't Watch Out"); of a heart attack; in Stamford, Conn.

Died. Nila Mack, 62, for 23 years writer-producer-director of the Peabody Award-winning children's program Lets Pretend (CBS's oldest continuous dramatic show); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Blonde, childless Widow Mack's Saturday fairy-tale program espoused courtesy and kindness, has long been something of an anachronism on air waves full of G-men, spacemen and cowboy mayhem, yet continues to draw 500-odd letters a week.

Died. Michael Strauss Jacobs, 72, sports promoter who once held the boxing world in the itching palm of his hand; of a heart attack; in Miami. Born on Manhattan's lower West Side, shrewd, deadpan Mike Jacobs opened his first ticket agency in a Broadway hotel, moved into boxing by raising $200,000 to help Promoter Tex Rickard stage the Dempsey-Carpentier championship fight in Jersey City in 1921 (the first million-dollar gate). In the '30s he parlayed his exclusive contract with Joe Louis into a 50% chunk of Madison Square Garden's boxing profits, the say-so at every other major arena around New York, thereafter control of almost every worthwhile fight and fighter.

Died. Walter Boughton Pitkin, 74, author, longtime Columbia University professor (philosophy, psychology, journalism), apostle of self-improvement and professional time-saver ("Never open second-class mail"), who added a phrase to the language when he wrote, at 54, his bestselling Life Begins at Forty; of a heart attack; in Los Altos, Calif.

Died. Charles Aubrey Eaton, 84, Republican Congressman from New Jersey for 14 terms (1925-52) and unwavering internationalist; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Canadian-born (Pugwash, Nova Scotia) "Doc" Eaton entered Congress at 56 after a career as a Baptist minister (he steered his nephew, Cleveland Financier Cyrus Eaton, away from the ministry because "there is more than one way to serve God"), reporter, magazine editor (Leslie's Weekly) and industrial consultant. Although he kept up a running attack on New Deal-Fair Deal domestic policies, he plugged for bipartisanship in foreign affairs, helped found the United Nations as a member of the U.S. delegation to the San Francisco Conference. As chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee during the Republican-controlled 80th Congress, he teamed with Senator Arthur Vandenberg to guide the Marshall Plan and other key foreign-aid programs through Congress.

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