Monday, Sep. 14, 1953
Married. Captain John Lindley Marmion Dymoke, 26, British army officer and commoner, who, as 34th hereditary Queen's Champion, led Elizabeth II's coronation procession last June; and Susan Cicely Fane, 20, dark-haired debutante daughter of a Royal Navy lieutenant; near Grantham, England.
Married. Sir Edmund Hillary, 34, co-conqueror of Mt. Everest; and Louise Mary Rose, 23, daughter of James H. Rose, president of New Zealand's Alpine Club; in the chapel of Diocesan High School at Auckland, New Zealand.
Died. Lee M. (for Mohrmann) Thurston, 58, onetime Michigan superintendent of public education, recently appointed U.S. Commissioner of Education (TIME, June 29); of a coronary thrombosis; in Washington, B.C.
Died. Mikhail Markovich Borodin (real name: Mikhail Gruzenberg), 68, top international Communist agent during the '20s; of unannounced causes; somewhere in the Soviet Union. Born in Byelorussia, he joined the Bolshevist underground at 19, in 1906 fled from Czarist police into exile in the U.S. Back in Russia after the 1917 revolution. Borodin soon went abroad as a Communist legman, fomented abortive "workers' revolutions" in Spain (1919) and Mexico (1920), directed Communist infiltration of labor unions in the U.S. and Scotland. In 1923 came Agitator Borodin's big assignment: advising (and infiltrating) China's struggling revolutionary movement under Sun Yatsen. With some Moscow gold and his own silver tongue, he engineered a working alliance between Communists and Nationalists, showed Sun Yat-sen how to organize the Kuomintang on the tight Moscow pattern, including a Soviet-type secret police. Borodin barely escaped when Chiang Kai-shek turned against the Communists in 1927. Back in Moscow, he fell from party favor, wound up as editor of the English-language Moscow News.
Died. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, 70, lean, hard-bitten hero of Bataan and Corregidor during the darkest days of the war in the Pacific; of a stroke; in San Antonio (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).
Died. Jacques Thibaud, 72, famed French violin virtuoso; in an airline crash near Barcelonnette in the French Alps. Ardent Patriot Thibaud fought as an infantryman in World War I, and before and during World War II turned down all offers to play in Hitler's Germany. In 1947, still spry and healthy, he made his last U.S. appearance with the New York Philharmonic, devoted most of his last years to encouraging a new generation of young violinists and pianists.
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