Monday, Nov. 11, 1957
Married. Vera Franceschi, 27, petite (about 5 ft.) San Francisco-born concert pianist; and Daniele Barioni, 27, Italian tenor who made his Metropolitan Opera debut last year in Tosca on a few hours' notice; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan.
Died. Dr. Richard C. Hubley, 31, zestful, white-haired geologist, glaciologist, coordinator of the U.S. International Geophysical Year glaciological program for the Northern Hemisphere, leader of a four-man scientific expedition encamped (at 8,000 ft.) since April on McCall Glacier in Alaska's Brooks Range; apparently by his own hand (stripped to the waist, he walked some 200 yd. from camp, lay down in zero weather, froze in time-honored Eskimo-suicide fashion).
Died. Herman Welker, 50, outspoken, aggressive one-term (1951-56) Republican Senator from Idaho, diehard reactionary and staunch McCarthy supporter; of a brain tumor; in Washington.
Died. Charles W. (Charlie) Caldwell Jr., 56, Princeton University's canny head football coach since 1945; of cancer; in Princeton, N.J. A onetime (class of '25) Tiger gridiron great (fullback on the 1922 "Team of Destiny"), Caldwell stubbornly clung to his modern version of the old-fashioned single-wing formation, brought Old Nassau untied and undefeated elevens in 1950 and 1951, won six Big Three (Harvard-Princeton-Yale) championships in six years (1947-52), was voted 1950's ''coach of the year.''
Died. Gianni Caproni, Count of Taliedo, 71, Italian aviation pioneer, whose first 1912 Caproni monoplane set speed, altitude and distance records; of a heart attack; in Rome. Builder (in 1914) of the first multimotored airplanes to stay aloft, Caproni converted them to bombers, prospered during World War I on the side of the Allies, later became a Fascist and provided Mussolini with planes for his Ethiopian raids.
Died. Louis B. (for Burt) Mayer, 72, one of the founders of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; of leukemia; in Los Angeles (see CINEMA).
Died. Peter Goelet Gerry, 78, longtime (1917-29, 1935-47) Democratic U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, wealthy great-grandson of Elbridge Gerry, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; after long illness; in Providence. His state's first popularly elected Senator, shy Peter Gerry was a staunch New Deal foe, helped organize the opposition that killed F.D.R.'s 1937 Supreme Court packing bill but, as an internationalist, supported New Deal foreign policies.
Died. Robert Livingston Gerry, 80, Manhattan realtor and investment banker; after long illness--and unaware of the death a few hours earlier of his brother Peter (see above); in Delhi, N.Y.
Died. Mahonri Mackintosh Young, 80, versatile sculptor, painter, etcher, one of Mormon Prophet Brigham Young's 300-odd grandchildren; of a bleeding ulcer complicated by pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Young taught (on and off since 1917) at Manhattan's Art Students League, kept within the realistic tradition, created two of his best-known works for his native Salt Lake City: Sea Gull Monument and Pioneer Monument.
Died. Mrs. Martha ("Mattie") Louise Munger Black, 91, sharp-witted onetime Tory member of Canada's Parliament, hard cussin' ("I'm no lady"), Chicago-born "first lady of the Yukon," who took off for the Klondike gold fields in 1898, prospected, managed a sawmill, was elected an M.P. from the Yukon in 1935; after long illness; in Whitehorse, Yukon.
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