Monday, May. 14, 1956
Married. Juanita Deere, 34, altar-prone Creek Indian oil heiress, famed for giving birth to a 9 1/2lb. son by Caesarean section at the age of eleven, daughter of the late Woosey Deere, reputedly the richest Indian woman of the hard-pressed '30s; and John Jackson, 30, Negro service-station attendant; she (by her own count) for the 18th time, he for the second; in Tulsa.
Married. Gardner ("Mike") Cowles, 53, president-publisher of Look Magazine and the Des "Monies Register & Tribune Co.; and Mrs. Jan Hochstraser Cox, 36, onetime model, erstwhile feature writer for the Miami Daily News; both for the fourth time, seven days after her divorce from James Cox Jr., Miami Daily News publisher; in Manhattan.
Divorced. Henry Fonda. 51, drawling actor of stage (The Caine Mutiny Court Martial), screen (Mr. Roberts) and TV; by Susan Blanchard, 27, his third wife, sometime actress and stepdaughter of Producer-Lyricist Oscar (Oklahoma!) Hammerstein II; after five years of marriage, one child; in Reno.
Died. Fielding Lewis Wright, 60, fiery Mississippi Delta lawyer, 1948 candidate for Vice President of the U.S. on the Dixiecrat ticket, 1 1/2time white supremacist governor of Mississippi (1946-52); of a heart attack; in Jackson. Miss.
Died. P. H. Shinicky (real name: Shin Ikhi), 62, bitter political foe and chief opponent of 81-year-old Syngman Rhee in South Korea's forthcoming (May 15) elections; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Iri, South Korea (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Died. Alben William Barkley, 78, Vice President of the U.S. under Harry Truman, junior Senator from Kentucky; of a heart attack; in Lexington, Va. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).
Died. Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, 79, brilliant, Bavarian-born boss of the German army that shattered France's Maginot Line in 1940, sometime (1941-42) commander of the Nazi forces on Russia's northern front, coruscant author (Defense, Chronicle of the Leeb Family); after long illness; in Augsburg, Germany. One of Hitler's most trusted theoreticians, Aristocrat Leeb finally broke with the Fuhrer over Russian campaign strategy, retired in 1942.
Died. General (ret.) Kazushige Ugaki, 87, onetime (1925-31) War Minister of Japan, Foreign Minister (1938), Governor General of Korea (1931-36), member of the Japanese Diet since 1953; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. Acting on the Emperor's mandate in 1937, peace-minded Ugaki made a stab at the premiership, was blocked by rightist warlords who distrusted him for shearing the army of four divisions.
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