Monday, Dec. 19, 1955
Marriage Revealed. Marlene Bauer, 21, topflight golfer, onetime barnstormer with her older sister Alice ("the golden Bauers"); and Robert Hagge, 28, towering (6 ft. 5 in.) golf pro; he for the second (his first: sister Alice), she for the first time; on Dec. 1, in Geneva, N.Y.
Died. John Caskis Collet, 57, judge of the Eighth U.S. Court of Appeals, who was "borrowed" from the bench in 1945 by President Truman to head the Office of Economic Stabilization; after long illness; in Kansas City, Mo.
Died. Henry Suydam, 64, two-time State Department press chief (since 1953 under John Foster Dulles; 1921-22 under Charles Evans Hughes), longtime newsman (the defunct Brooklyn Eagle, the Newark News); in Washington.
Died. Herman Weyl, 70, famed German-born mathematician, professor emeritus at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study, author (The Open World, Mind and Nature); of a heart attack; in Zurich. One of the original faculty members, Dr. Weyl joined the institute in 1933 after repeated invitations from the late Dr. Albert Einstein.
Died. Jiro Minami, 81, onetime hard-drinking, samurai-style Japanese army general (at 60 he was a good fencer, an expert with the broadsword), war minister in 1931, when the Japanese army marched into Manchuria, ambassador and commander-in-chief in Manchukuo 1934-36, tyrannical governor general of Korea 1936-42; of uremic poisoning; in Kamakura, Japan. In 1945, Minami was ordered arrested by General MacArthur with ten other class A war criminals; he was paroled last year from Tokyo's Sugamo Prison because of ill health.
Died. John Peter ("Honus") Wagner, 81, the "Flying Dutchman," famed as baseball's greatest shortstop; in Carnegie, Pa. (see SPORT).
Died. Charles P. Gaither, 88, developer in 1901 of an early automobile (the Fredonia B-68, which won a 500-mile New York-Boston-New York race in 1902) and an early half-tone newspaper engraving process; in Youngstown, Ohio.
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