Monday, Jun. 14, 1954

Married. TV's Wally Cox, 29, who recently (TIME, June 7) got up courage to marry his TV flame in the script of his Mr. Peepers program; and Musicomedy Dancer Marilyn (The Pajama Game) Gennaro, 20; both for the first time; in Bozman, Md.

Divorced. By Cinemactress Shelley (Executive Suite) Winters, 31: Italian Cinemactor Vittorio (Rhapsody) Gassman, 31; after two years of marriage, one daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Paul R. Braniff, 56, commercial-aviation pioneer who, with his brother Thomas (killed last January in the crash of a private plane), built up Braniff Airways from a one-plane charter operation in Oklahoma to the point where it piled up 550,385,051 passenger miles last year and is the first U.S. airline to challenge Pan American's long-held monopoly of Latin-American routes; of cancer; in Oklahoma City.

Died. Harold Giles Hoffman, 58, who zoomed in New Jersey's political firmament as a Republican Congressman (1927-31) and governor (1935-37), then, fizzled like a spent skyrocket; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. With an ambitious eye on the Republican presidential nomination in 1936, Hoffman let his vision stray to the Lindbergh kidnaping case. Bruno Richard Hauptmann stood convicted of the crime, but Hoffman, insisting that he sought justice for Hauptmann and not publicity for himself, impoliticly tried to reopen the case. He died awaiting justice for himself, under suspension as New Jersey's employment-security director since last March, when his purchasing division came under fire.

Died. Maury Maverick, 58, dumpy, dynamic Texas Democrat, onetime clean-up mayor of San Antonio (1939-41), two-term U.S. Representative (1935-39); of a heart ailment; in San Antonio. An ardent New Dealer and champion of small business, he nonetheless scorned Washington bureaucratese; once, after scanning a subordinate's report, he gruffly coined a capital classic: "Gobbledygook!"

Died. Major General Frank Ross McCoy, 79, "America's soldier-diplomat," who became a troubleshooter for Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to Hoover; after long illness; in Washington, D.C. West Pointer McCoy emerged from World War I a medal-covered brigadier. As competent in striped pants as in uniform, McCoy roamed the world on diplomatic missions for the White House, helped set up the Cuban and Philippine governments, fed the "starving Armenians" in 1919, ran Nicaraguan elections, wound up his long career in 1949, when he decided that four years on the Far Eastern Commission were "long enough for . . . that temporary duty."

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