Monday, Aug. 13, 1956
Married. Princess Christine Margarethe of Hesse, 23, beauteous niece of Britain's Duke of Edinburgh; and Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia, 27, brother of former King Peter II of Yugoslavia; in Kronberg. Germany.
Died. Thomas D. Bourdillon, 31, British physicist and rocket expert who in 1953, with Dr. Charles Evans, climbed to within 300 feet of Mt. Everest's peak before being turned back by bad weather and lack of oxygen, three days before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkey made it to the top; in a fall while climbing Ausserberg in southern Switzerland.
Died. John Augustin McNulty, 60, old-time newsman, bar correspondent and gentle troubadour of cabbies, rummies and $2 bettors in Manhattan (Third Avenue, New York) and other places where elbows are bent (A Man Gets Around), veteran sketch writer for The New Yorker; of a heart attack; in Wakefield, R.I.
Died. Dr. John Adam Fleming, 79, top-level geophysicist, director (1935-46) of the department of terrestrial magnetism at the Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C., supervisor of the institution's world magnetic survey, authority on sunspots and radio disturbance; in San Mateo, Calif.
Died. Dr. Maude Royden Shaw, 79, first woman preacher in London (because Anglican precedent did not allow women clerics, she became an assistant minister at the nonconformist City Temple in 1917), Oxford-educated suffragette, onetime pacifist (she renounced pacifism as "negative" at the outbreak of World War II) who shocked American bluenoses by smoking cigarettes on a preaching tour in 1928, married (1944) the Rev. George W. H. Shaw after a 43-year, triangular love affair described in her book, A Threefold Cord; in London.
Died. The Most Rev. John Francis Noll, 81, Roman Catholic archbishop of Fort Wayne, Ind., founder (1912) of the weekly Our Sunday Visitor (circ. 762,-353), one of the founders of Hollywood's Legion of Decency; in Fort Wayne.
Died. Albert Woolson, 109, last surviving Union veteran of the Civil War,* at 17 enlisted (October 1864) as a drummer in the 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment, traveled with Union occupation forces through Tennessee but saw no action; of lung congestion; in Duluth. Chipper, cigar-smoking Woolson was senior vice commander of the once influential (peak membership in 1890: 408,489) Grand Army of the Republic, which held its last encampment in 1949.
* Three Confederate veterans remain: Walter W. Williams, 113; John Sailing, no: William A. Lundy, 108.
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