Monday, Nov. 09, 1953

Born. To Robert Newton, 48, British-born cinemactor (Androcles and the Lion), and his fourth wife, Vera Budnik Newton, 29; their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Kim. Weight: 8 Ibs. 7 oz.

Married. Marion Anthony (Tony) Trabert, 23, U.S. amateur tennis champion since his upset victory over Wimbledon Winner Vic Seixas (TIME, Sept. 14); and brunette Beauty Queen ("Miss Utah") Shauna Wood, 23; in Salt Lake City.

Divorced. John Wayne, 46, Hollywood's No. 1 box-office attraction (The Quiet Man, Trouble Along the Way); and his second wife, Esperanza Baur Wayne, 31; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles.

Died. William Kapell, 31, Manhattan-born piano virtuoso; in the crash of a transpacific airliner; near San Francisco (see Music).

Died. Herb Roth, 66, longtime collaborator of the late comic-strip humorist H. T. Webster (The Timid Soul, Bridge, The Silent Audience), who,, after Webster's death last year, continued the famed Caspar Milquetoast series by himself; of a heart ailment; in Scarsdale, N.Y.

Died. Emmerich Kalman, 71, Hungarian-born composer (Countess Maritza, Sari, The Gay Hussars); of a heart attack; in Paris.

Died. John G. Scott, 73, the Greenback Party's 1948 presidential candidate, who urged elimination of boom-bust economic cycles by simply printing money when needed; of a heart attack; in East Taghkani, N.Y.

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