Monday, May. 31, 1954
Born. To Mario Lanza, 32, overstuffed Hollywood tenor (The Great Caruso), and Betty Hicks Lanza, 31: their fourth child, second son; in Hollywood. Weight: 7 Ibs. 5 oz.
Born. To Alvin Morell Bentley, 35, U.S. Representative from Michigan, worst-hit of five Congressmen wounded by Puerto Rican fanatics in the Capitol (TIME, March 8), now fully recovered; and his second wife, Arvella Ann Duescher Bentley, 30: their first child, a son; in Washington. Name: Clark Henry. Weight: 6 Ibs. 13 oz.
Married. Wogan Philipps, 52, eldest son of Britain's millionaire Baron Milford and unsuccessful onetime (1950) Communist candidate for Parliament; and Tamara Rust, 40, widow of William Rust, longtime (1930-49) editor of London's Communist Daily Worker; he for the third time, she for the second; in London. When Philipps succeeds to his father's title, he will become the House of Lords' first Communist member, his wife the realm's first Communist peeress.
Divorced. Herbert ("Zeppo") Marx, 53, onetime straight man of Hollywood's four clowning Marx Brothers (Animal Crackers) who quit the quartet in 1934, became president of Norman Products, Inc. (machine parts); by Marion Miller Marx, 50; after 26 years of marriage, two children; in Las Vegas, Nev.
Died. Louis Stark, 66, veteran New York Times newsman, Pulitzer Prize-winning dean of U.S. labor reporters; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan.
Died. Andrew Frederick Wyles McNally, 67, chairman of the board of Rand McNally & Co., the world's largest map publishers; of a stroke; in Chicago.
Died. Fred Waller, 68, veteran Hollywood special-effects man, who after 13 years perfected Cinerama in 1951, first showed it to the public in Manhattan 20 months ago (total box-office receipts to date: $10 million); of Hodgkin's disease; in Huntington, N.Y.
Died. Charles Albert ("Chief") Bender, 71, famed Indian pitcher for the old Philadelphia Athletics, who helped his team win five American League pennants (1905, 1910-11, 1913-14), compiled a record of 206 victories and in defeats, last year was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame; of cancer; in Philadelphia.
Died. Charles Edward Ives, 79. successful, publicity-shy Manhattan insurance broker (Ives & Myrick) and long-obscure composer, whose intricate, highly original Third Symphony (written in 1911) won him belated public recognition and a Pulitzer Prize in 1947; in Manhattan.
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