Monday, Dec. 13, 1954
Married. Fred Waring, 54, veteran sweet-and-low bandleader; and Virginia Morley, 39, pianist for Waring's Pennsylvanians; he for the third time, she for the second; in Indianapolis; the day after Waring was divorced by wife No. 2, Evalyn Nair Waring, in Las Vegas, Nev.
Marriage Revealed. Barbara Billingsley, 18, daughter of Manhattan Saloonkeeper Sherman (Stork Club) Billingsley; and John Rogers Christoffers, 28, commercial photographer; in Folkston, Ga., on Nov. 29, after her father had reported her as a missing person.
Died. Sol Butler, 59, onetime (1920) U.S. running broad-jump champion, one of the first Negroes to play professional football (on the Canton Bulldogs in the early '20s, with Jim Thorpe); of gunshot wounds; in Chicago. Butler, a bartender, was shot down by a customer he had thrown out for annoying a waitress.
Died. Sir Girja Shankar Bajpai, 63, governor of Bombay, former (1947-1952) secretary-general of India's Ministry of External Affairs; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bombay. In 1941 Bajpai became the first agent-general from India to the U.S., supported the Allied war effort when it was receiving lukewarm backing from Gandhi and other Indians.
Died. Nelson Trusler Johnson, 67, retired U.S. career diplomat and specialist on the Far East, onetime (1927-29) Assistant Secretary of State, Ambassador to China from 1929 to 1941; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C.
Died. Wilhelm Furtwangler, 68, famed conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Or chestra, one of Europe's leading interpreters of Beethoven, Schubert and Wagner, often in hot water because of his equivocal attitude toward the Nazis; of pneumonia; in Baden-Baden, Germany.
Died. Dr. Leon M. Birkhead, 69, crusading Unitarian minister, founder of Friends of Democracy, Inc., antitotalitarian propaganda agency; in Manhattan.
Died. Major General Charles Scott, 71, pioneer in mechanized armor, commander in 1940 of the 2nd Armored ("Hell on Wheels") Division, later (1943-45) chief of U.S. Armored Forces; of emphysema; in Washington, D.C.
Died. Wallace Brett Donham, 77, longtime (1919-1942) dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration; of a heart ailment; in Cambridge, Mass. Onetime Banker Donham took over Harvard's Business School when it had some 400 students, hired a first-rate faculty, saw enrollments more than double while the school became the model on which most other business schools patterned themselves.
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