Monday, May. 17, 1954
Born. To Enid Margaret ("Peggy") Cripps Appiah, 33, youngest daughter of the late Sir Stafford Cripps. Britain's austerity Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Joseph Manuel Appiah, 33, Ashanti law student and personal representative in Britain of the Africa Gold Coast's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah: their first child, a son; in London. Weight: 8 lbs. 8 oz. Name: Kwame.
Married. Diane Disney, 20, junior at the University of Southern California, elder daughter of Hollywood Producer Walt (Living Desert) Disney; and Ronald William Miller, 21, onetime U.S.C. varsity left end, now employed by his father-in-law; in a quiet church ceremony; in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Died. Crown Princess Cecilie of Prussia, 67, widow of the late Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and daughter-in-law of Germany's last emperor, the late Kaiser Wilhelm II; after long illness; in Bad Kissingen, Germany.
Died. Bertie Charles ("B.C.") Forbes, 73, Scottish-born onetime Hearst financial editor and columnist 'who started his own semimonthly business magazine, Forbes (circ. 128,623), in 1917; of a heart attack; at his desk in his Manhattan office. A prolific chronicler of tycoons' careers--e.g., Andrew Carnegie, James B. Duke, John D. Rockefeller--B.C. strove to "humanize" Big Business, larded his Forbes columns with hearty aphorisms. Examples: "Rest? Yes. Rust? No! . . . The self-starter never allows his steam to run down . . . Everything may not be for the best, but let's make the best of everything."
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