Monday, Sep. 26, 1955
Married. Milton Eisenhower Jr., 25, Pan American Airways traffic analyst, nephew of Dwight Eisenhower, son of Dr. Milton Eisenhower, president of Pennsylvania State University; and Sally Ann Booth, 22, schoolteacher; in Florala, Ala.
Married. Barbara Ann Scott, 27, Canada's pert, blonde 1948 Olympic figure-skating champion, star of the Hollywood Ice Revue (1952-55); and Tommy King, 31, press agent for Chicago Stadium Sports Enterprises; she for the first time, he for the second; in Toronto, Canada.
Divorced. Thomas Franklyn (Tommy) Manville, 61, aging asbestos heir; by wife No. 9, Burlesque Queen Anita Roddy-Eden Manville, 32; after three years of marriage, three of separation, name-calling and money-haggling; in Reno.
Died. Thomas Mercer Backhouse, 51, officer in charge of the war crimes section in the British Army of the Rhine in World War II, successful prosecutor in 1945 of Joseph ("The Beast of Belsen") Kramer and other Nazi operators of Belsen and Oswiecim concentration camps; of pleurisy; in Nottingham, England.
Died. Robert Butler, 58, president of St. Paul's Builders Trust Co., president of Walter Butler Shipbuilders, Inc., first U.S. Ambassador to Australia (1946-48), Ambassador to Cuba (1948-51); of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Walter Riehl, 73, Austrian founder of the German National Socialist Workers' Party, which was first (1918) to use the swastika as a party emblem, was one of the splinter groups later welded by Hitler into the Nazi movement; of a heart attack; in Vienna.
Died. Leopold Stennett Amery, 81, Tory elder statesman, onetime First Lord of the Admiralty (1922-24), Colonial Secretary (1924-29), wartime Secretary of State for India and Burma under the Commonwealth (1940-45), author (Empire and Prosperity); in his sleep at his home; in London. India-born Amery delivered the oratorical coup de grace to Chamberlain in 1940 when he quoted in the House of Commons from Oliver Cromwell: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing ... In the name of God, go!" A lifelong imperialist, he lived to see his son John convicted and hanged for high treason in 1945 for broadcasting Nazi propaganda; his other son, Julian, Conservative M.P. since 1950, parachuted into occupied Albania in World War II, worked with partisans as a liaison officer.
Died. Andrew Weir, Baron Inverforth, 90, British shipping (Andrew Weir Shipping & Trading Co., Ltd.) and communications tycoon, Minister of Munitions (1919-21); in London.
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