Monday, May. 20, 1957
Born. To Donna Reed, 36, Oscar-winning cinemactress (From Here to Eternity, 1953), and Tony Owen, 50, movie producer (Beyond Mombasa): their second daughter, fourth child (two adopted); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Mary Anne. Weight: 7 Ibs. 10 oz.
Married. Lady Iris Mountbatten, 37, honey-blonde great -granddaughter of Queen Victoria, cousin of the late King George VI and Admiral Viscount Mountbatten and well-publicized victim (1947) of the quaint American custom of not honoring hot checks (in England "the bank notifies you and you cover the overdraft, all in good taste"); and Michael N. Bryan, 41, well-to-do broker; she for the second time, he for the first; in Pound Ridge, N.Y.
Married. Charles Daly (Charlie) Barnet, 43, saxophonist-jazzband leader ("Sing and Sweat with Charlie Barnet"); and Joy Windsor, 26, blonde singer; he for the ninth time, she for the second, in Yuma, Ariz.
Died. Alfonso Cabeza de Vaca, 17th Marquis de Portago, 28, Spanish millionaire sportsman; in a Mille Miglia road-race crash at the wheel of his Ferrari; at Castelgrimaldo, near Mantua, Italy (see SPORT).
Died. Ezio Pinza, 64, Metropolitan opera basso and Broadway star; of a stroke; in Stamford, Conn. (see Music).
Died. Katie (The Ladykillers) Johnson, 78, elfin, apple-cheeked British actress, who retired "officially" in 1940 (after a 44-year stage and film career), was coaxed back to play the screen role of a fragile, oaken-hearted old lady in the midst of a gang of criminals, won international acclaim and the British Film Academy's 1955 best British actress award; in Elham, England.
Died. Baron James ("Jimmie") Armand de Rothschild, 78, gaunt, monocled (he lost the sight of one eye when struck by a golf ball) millionaire racing-stable owner, great-grandson of Meyer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the fabled European banking dynasty, and onetime (1929-45) Liberal Member of Parliament; of a heart attack; in London. The French-born baron, who followed his father, Baron Edmond, in giving enormous sums for Jewish colonization of Palestine, and after 1948 to Israel, inherited the lush Buckinghamshire estate of a great-aunt and became a British subject; he reportedly won between $390,000 and $1,000,000 when his horse Brigand, a 33-to-1 shot, took the Cambridgeshire Stakes in 1919, and further ample sums when his La Reine Lumiere (120 to 1) won the 1925 Grand Prix de Paris.
Death Revealed. Johnny Torrio, 75, compact (5 ft. 5 in.), button-eyed dean of Chicago's Prohibition-era gang leaders, (e.g., Dion O'Bannion, Hymie Weiss) who brought Al ("Scarface") Capone from Brooklyn as a $75-a-week mug, tutored him, later (1925) bequeathed him his underworld empire and title of Public Enemy No. 1; of a heart attack; on April 16, in Brooklyn. Dapper Torrio, a topnotch organizer, executive and marksman (tagged by colleagues as "Terrible Johnny" long before police got anything on him), joined Big Jim Colosimo in Chicago as chief triggerman in 1910, gathered the reins of vice (bribery, brothels, bootleggers) into his own hands when Colosimo was rubbed out (in 1920, perhaps by Torrio), escaped erasure (but lost part of his chin) in a 1925 bullet riddling, and left for New York, where he later ran an outfit acquiring Government revenue stamps for bottles of cut whisky. In 1939 Torrio was jailed for 2 1/2 years for income-tax evasion, settled in Brooklyn after his release and lived until the end in obscurity as a real-estate agent.
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