Monday, Jun. 25, 1956
Married. Genevieve de Galard-Terraube, 31, onetime French flight nurse whose 58 days of selfless ministrations to beleaguered French troops in Indo-China (1954) earned her the title of "Angel of Dienbienphu"; and Captain Jean de Heaulme de Boutsocq, 33, St. Cyr-educated French parachutist and veteran of the Indo-China war; in Paris.
Married. Winthrop Rockefeller, 44, oil-heir-turned-Arkansas-cattle-baron; and Jeannette Edris Barrager Hartley McDonnell, 37, Seattle real-estate million-heiress; he for the second time (his first: Barbara -- "Bobo" -- Jievute Paulekiute Sears), she for the fourth (her first: Nate Barrager, 1929 football captain at the University of Southern California); at Hayden Lake, Idaho.
Married. Gordon Gray, 47, shy, sandy-haired Assistant Secretary of Defense, ex-president (1950-55) of the University of North Carolina, onetime (1949-50) Secretary of the Army and special assistant to Harry Truman on foreign aid (the "Gray Report"), first director of the U.S. Government's Psychological Strategy Board, head of the special security board of the AEC that barred Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer from access to the nation's top atom secrets, publisher; and Mrs. Nancy Maguire Beebe, 31; both for the second time; in Washington, D.C.
Divorced. By Arthur Miller, 40, Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright (Death of a Salesman) and current romantic interest, according to the tabloids, of Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, 30: Mary Grace Slattery Miller, 40; after 16 years of marriage, two children; in Reno.
Divorced. By Jane Froman, 45, brunette singer of stage (Ziegfeld Follies), nightclubs, radio and TV, wartime U.S.A. favorite whose gallant comeback after a 1943 plane crash in Portugal (and 25 leg operations) was recorded in a Hollywood film biography (With a Song in My Heart): John Curtis Burn, 41, Pan American pilot and officer of the Yankee Clipper that went down with Singer Froman (whom he held above icy Tagus River waters for nearly an hour before being rescued); after eight years of marriage, more than one of separation, no children; in Las Vegas, Nev.
Died. Frank Trumbauer, 56, goateed hot saxophonist of the Jazz Age, musicmaking crony of the late great Cornettist Bix Beiderbecke, and wartime test pilot; of a heart attack; in Kansas City, Mo.
Died. Ralph Morgan (real name: Ralph Wuppermann), 72, veteran (since 1908) character actor of stage (Strange Interlude) and screen (Magnificent Obsession), elder brother of the late Comedian Frank Morgan, son of George Wuppermann, founder and first president of the Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. (bitters) ; after long illness, in Manhattan.
Died. Joseph Buell Ely, 75, white-thatched Boston lawyer and textile executive (American Woolen Co.), twice (1931-35) Democratic Governor of Massachusetts, once (1944) anti-Roosevelt candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination; of complications six months after a brain operation; in Westfield, Mass. At the 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Joe Ely nominated his longtime friend Al Smith, gave reluctant support to Franklin Roosevelt only after F.D.R. became the convention's choice. Ely charged that a "pink fringe of Socialists and Communists" surrounded F.D.R., and Ely's supporters averred that his unsuccessful 1944 candidacy was designed to split the Democratic Party and force Roosevelt to withdraw.
Died. Dr. Ernst Leitz, 85, bushy-browed boss (since 1920) of Germany's famed Leitz optical works (Leica cameras) and son of the founder; in Wetzlar, Germany. The Leitzes first introduced the Swiss watch industry's mass production technique to microscopy, later (1924) added the Leica as a sideline. But by 1930 the tail was wagging the dog, and miniature cameras and candid photography became a worldwide craze.
Died. Sir Frank Brangwyn, 89, British mural painter, longtime mainstay of Britain's Royal Academy, best known in the U.S. for his sepia-and-white, archacademic panels (New Frontiers) in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (R.C.A. Building lobby); in Ditchling, England. Because he always hated having his works "pawed over by a lot of strangers," Sir Frank gave away some half million dollars' worth to friends and fans. Others are pawed over in: the Canadian Parliament Building (Ottawa), London's Royal Exchange Building, the Cleveland Court House, Missouri's capitol building, the civic center in Swansea, Wales.
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