Monday, Sep. 23, 1957

Married. Justice Hugo La Fayette Black, 71, Roosevelt's first (1937) Supreme Court appointee, onetime (1927-37) Senator from Alabama, scholarly, quick-witted champion of New Deal policies, member (with Warren and Douglas) of the liberal core of the court; and Elizabeth Seay DeMeritte, 49, his secretary; both for the second time; in Alexandria, Va.

Married. Anthony Drexel Duke, 39, millionaire grandnephew of Tobacco (Lucky Strike) Baron James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke; and Diane M. Douglas, 24, Social Registerite; he for the third time, she for the first; in Manhattan.

Died. Clendenin James Ryan, 52, millionaire grandson of Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan (whose empire was once valued at $1,500,000,000), ambitious, name-calling reformer whose major success was Black Angus cattle-raising on his New Jersey farm; by his own hand (a .45-cal. automatic); in the Manhattan town house where his father committed suicide in 1939. Tammany Tiger Hunter Ryan often interrupted his moneymaking ventures (Guaranty Trust Co., I.T. & T.) for money-splurging political dreams. After efficiently campaigning for Fiorello La Guardia in 1933, he became a secretary to the mayor and later held a couple of city posts, but the two reformers fell out, and Ryan never again held a political job. In 1953 Ryan ran poorly (23,000 votes) as an independent for the New Jersey governorship. Five years ago he went under psychiatric care for manic-depression.

Died. Albert Eugene Cobo, 63, popular nonpartisan mayor of Detroit since 1950; of a heart attack; in Detroit. In 1933, Burroughs Adding Machine Co., where he was a top sales executive, lent Cobo to the city to salvage its Depression-hit, near-bankrupt finances (city employees were being paid in scrip), and he soon worked out a tax-payment plan that saved many Detroiters their homes. Remaining in the city government, he was seven times elected city treasurer (1935-49). As mayor, Cobo used his financial know-how to start, then speed up, the $195 million expressway system and $112 million Civic Center development which gave Detroit's downtown a needed face lift. Considering himself primarily a businessman, he was asked by the G.O.P. to run against Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams in 1956, returned to his duties as mayor when Soapy handily won reelection.

Died. Edgar Vincent Durling, 64, old-time reporter and (since 1939) King Features (Hearst) Syndicate columnist, whose homey, shaggy-dog column appeared in more than 100 papers, generally under the title "On the Side"; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan.

Died. Henry Francis Grady, 75, big, jovial educator, economist, onetime president of American President Lines, postwar U.S. ambassador to troubled areas; of a heart attack; while on a Pacific cruise aboard the S.S. President Wilson. An economic aide to Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover (1921), Grady was dean of the University of California's College of Commerce (1928-37), a wartime boss of various economic missions (to India, Italy). In 1947 President Truman appointed him the first U.S. ambassador to newly independent India, switched him to Greece the following year as troubleshooting envoy for the Truman Doctrine, next sent him to Iran (1950-51), where he dealt with Mossadegh in the Anglo-Iranian oil crisis. In 1955 he became one of the founders of the Fund for Asia.

Died. Hadj Mohammed el Mokri, chubby, white-bearded centenarian (estimated Moslem age: 116), Grand Vizier (Premier) to the last five Sultans of Morocco, dishonored and disfortuned for serving the wrong boss (i.e., France) in his country's successful struggle for independence; in Rabat, Morocco.

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