Monday, May. 25, 1953

Married. Princess Ragnhild of Norway, 22, shy brunette eldest daughter of Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Maertha; and Erling Svenn Lorentzen, 30, a commoner, well-to-do shipping executive and a hero of the Norwegian underground during World War II; in a simple ceremony attended by European royalty (including Britain's Princess Margaret) and Lorentzen's wartime comrades; in Asker Church near Oslo.

Died. Chet Miller, 50, dean of U.S. racing-car drivers; at the Indianapolis Speedway. Good enough to hold the track's one-lap speed record (139.6 m.p.h.), Veteran Miller never won the annual 500-mile speedway classic, decided that this year's attempt would be his last. He climbed into his V-8 Novi Special for a fast practice spin, lost control, crashed into the barrier, became the speedway's 43rd victim.

Died. Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 59, prizewinning Japanese expatriate painter; of cancer; in New York City.

Died. Hans Jeppesen Isbrandtsen, 61, Danish-born founder of the Isbrandtsen Steamship Co.; of coronary thrombosis; while on a world air tour, at Wake Island.

Coming to the U.S. in 1914, "H. I." built up the nation's largest independent cargo fleet (16 owned, 40 to 70 chartered vessels), beat out competitors by undercutting their rates, hiring tough, experienced captains (e.g., the Flying Enterprise's Henrik Kurt Carlsen), and sending his ships wherever profit beckoned. His lone-wolf ventures often provoked international incidents, State Department migraine; before and during the Korean war, H. I.

insisted on trading with Communist China until a U.S. embargo stopped him. Rugged Individualist Isbrandtsen once remarked: "You are almost a scoundrel to be in business these days." Died. Oren Edgar ("Kickapoo Ed") Summers, 68, oldtime Detroit Tiger pitcher (1908-12), whose 18-inning scoreless game (pitched in 1909, against the Washington Senators) still stands as a record; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Indianapolis.

Died. Nicholai Radescu, 77, exiled former Prime Minister of Rumania; in New York City. Freed from a Nazi prison, General Radescu signed the 1944 pact switching Rumania from the Axis to the Allies, headed the first (and last) democratic, postLiberation government, was ousted after a bloodily successful Communist-led uprising in March 1945, narrowly escaped assassination and came to the U.S., where he formed a Free Rumanian committee to work for his country's liberation.

Died. Merlin Hull, 82, G.O.P. and Progressive U.S. Representative from Wisconsin for 21 years; in La Crosse, Wis.

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