Monday, Apr. 09, 1956
Married. Marisa Pavan, 23, lissome Italian film star (The Rose Tattoo), twin sister of Cinemactress Pier Angeli; and Jean Pierre Aumont (real name: Jean Pierre Salomons), 46, wavy-haired French actor (The Heavenly Twins, Lili); she for the first time, he for the second (his first: the late Cinema Siren Maria Montez); in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Married. Renana Ben-Gurion, 30, second daughter of Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion; and David Leshem, 32. engineer; in Tel Aviv.
Divorced. By Ruth Roman, 32, statuesque cinemactress (The Bottom of the Bottle, Strangers on a Train): Mortimer Hall, 32, president and general manager of Los Angeles radio station KLAC; after six years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif.
Divorced. Hal Peary, 46, jowly radio comic and the original giggling star of The Great Gilder sleeve; by Gloria Holiday, 29, onetime radio and TV performer; after ten years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles.
Died. Prince Alfonso of Bourbon, 14, younger son of Spanish Pretender Don Juan and brother of Prince Juan Carlos, Generalissimo Franco's hand-picked candidate for the Spanish throne; of a gunshot wound while cleaning a pistol in the game room of the family residence in exile; in Estoril, Portugal.
Died. William Fletcher Russell, 65, longtime dean (1927-49) and president (1949-54) of Columbia University's Teachers College, deputy director for Technical Services since 1954 of the International Cooperation Administration, author (How to Judge a School); of a heart attack; in Washington. D.C.
Died. Ralph de Palma, 73. Italian-born auto speed king, winner of the 1915 500-mile Indianapolis Memorial Day race (in a Mercedes, averaging 89.84 m.p.h.) and of two AAA national championships (1912, 1914). who drove against such old-time racing greats as Eddie Rickenbacker, Tommy Milton, Ray Harroun, Barney Oldfield; of cancer; in South Pasadena. Calif.
Died. E. (for Edmund) C. (for Clerihew) Bentley, 80. British author of the classic crime novel Trent's Last Case, rated by the late G. K. Chesterton as "the finest detective story of modern times"; in London. While still a schoolboy, Bentley invented his celebrated verse form, the clerihew. Sample:
Sir Christopher Wren
Said "I'm going to dine with some men.
If anybody calls
Say I'm designing St. Paul's."
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