Monday, Jan. 24, 1955

Born. To Dawn Addams. 24, undulous British-born cinemactress (The Moon Is Blue), and Prince Vittorio Emanuele Massimo of Roccasecca de' Volsci, 43, Italian gentleman-farmer: their first child, a son. Weight: 8 lbs. 10 oz.

Married. Jack Webb, 34, deadpan star (Sergeant Joe Friday) and director of TV's Dragnet; and Dorothy Towne, 25, Hollywood starlet; both for the second time (his first: Cinemactress Julie London); in Chicago.

Died. James B. Verdin, 36, Douglas Aircraft Corp. test pilot, World War II winner of the Navy Cross and the D.F.C., holder of the three-kilometer air speed record of 753.4 m.p.h. set in a Douglas Skyray at Salton Sea, Calif., on Oct. 3, 1953; when he bailed out of his disabled Skyhawk jet bomber over California's Mojave Desert.

Died. Robert Hood Saunders, 51, lawyer, onetime (1945-48) mayor of Toronto, chairman of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario; of injuries suffered in a private-plane crash near London, Ont.

Died. Yves Tanguy, 55, French-born pioneer surrealist painter of impeccably drawn dream landscapes (Mama, Papa Is Wounded!; Slowly Toward the North; Indefinite Divisibility); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Waterbury, Conn. One of the group of young painters who formed the original surrealist school in Paris in the 1920s, Tanguy came to the U.S. in 1939, became renowned for his stark pictures of rubble-strewn deserts and towering geometrical forms.

Died. General John Kenneth ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 62, board chairman of Fletcher Aviation Corp., retired veteran of 32 years' service with the Air Force, postwar commanding general of U.S. Air Forces in Europe; of a heart attack; in Arcadia, Calif. Trainer of hundreds of military pilots (among his pupils: Generals Nathan F. Twining, Hoyt Vandenberg, Curtis E. LeMay), four-star Uncle Joe won renown as one of World War II's great tactical airmen; devised "Operation Strangle," which severed Nazi rail transport to central Italy in preparation for the push on Rome.

Died. Mario Avelino Peron, 64, only brother of Argentina's President Juan Domingo Peron; of peritonitis; in Buenos Aires. Appointed director of the Buenos Aires Zoo by brother Juan in 1946, Mario Peron avoided the spotlight and politics, once said: "I prefer my zoo, where I have all my animals labeled."

Died. The Rev. Daniel Aloysius Lord, S.J., 66, nationally known Roman Catholic pamphleteer, writer of religious songs (Mother Beloved, For Christ the King), national organizer (in 1925) and director of the Sodality of Our Lady (membership: 2,000,000 plus), producer (in 1929) of the strict movie production code for Hollywood's Hays Office; of cancer; in St. Louis.

Died. Baron Louis de Rothschild, 72, sportsman, patron of art and science, former head of the Austrian branch of the international banking family; of a heart attack; in Montego Bay, Jamaica. When the Credit Anstalt, the family's Vienna bank and Central Europe's biggest financial house, failed in 1931, Rothschild handed over $10 million of his private fortune to the Austrian government to help cover losses. Held for a year by the Gestapo after Hitler's Anschluss, he was released after payment of a $21 million "ransom."

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