Monday, Jan. 27, 1958
Born. To Felix Gaillard, 38, Premier of France, and Dolores Gaillard, 36: a girl, their second child, her fourth; in Paris. Name: Isabelle-Aimee. Weight: 8 Ibs. 14 oz. (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Married. Jayne Mansfield, 24, show-off blonde cinemactress (Kiss Them for Me); and protein-packed, Hungarian-born Miklos ("Mickey") Hargitay, 29, otherwise "Mr. Universe of 1956"; both for the second time; in Portugese Bend (south of Los Angeles), Calif.
Married. Edward G. Robinson, 64, Rumanian-born, onetime cigar-munching cinema tough guy (Little Caesar), now cast as a middle-aged Romeo in Paddy Chayefsky's play Middle of the Night; and Jane Adler, 38, sometime New York dress designer now working backstage; both for the second time; in Arlington. Va.
Died. William Vincent Griffin, 72, longtime vice chairman of the board of directors of TIME, INC.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. After Yale, where he took an LL.B. ('08) and a B.A. ('12), wise, devoted Bill Griffin started a business career without any sign of a silver spoon, became a trustee of the estate of James C. Brady and chairman of the board of the Brady Security & Realty Corp.; invested in Chrysler in the '205, was soon a member of the board of directors of the Bank of Manhattan, Continental Oil Co. and more than a dozen other large industrial and financial corporations. Wartime ("dollar-a-year") special assistant to the administrator of the lend-lease program, later director of its British Empire branch, prominent Roman Catholic Layman Griffin was longtime (1947-57) president of the English-Speaking Union and co-chairman of the American Fund for
Westminster Abbey, was cited by the Vatican (Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great), once headed the Yale University Catholic center and chapel fund-raising committee. In 1947 President Truman awarded him the President's Certificate of Merit, and in 1952 Queen Elizabeth II made him honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire.
Died. Jesse Louis Lasky, 77. pioneer moviemaker who cranked out (in 1914) Hollywood's first feature-length film (The Squaw Man) in a barn studio; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills. After his first movie venture (with a brother-in-law, Glove Salesman Samuel Goldfish, now Goldwyn. and a young playwright named Cecil B. DeMille), Lasky joined forces (in 1916) with Adolph Zukor to form the Famous Players-Lasky Corp., which evolved into Paramount Pictures.
Died. General Jose Miaja, 79, "Savior of Madrid" and hero of Spanish Republican resistance during the disastrous (about 1.000,000 killed out of a 23 million population) 1936-39 rebellion led by Francisco Franco; of a heart attack; in Mexico City.
Died. Matthew Mansfield Neely, 83, longtime (almost 25 years) Democratic Senator from West Virginia, onetime Representative and governor whose acid-tongued criticism and flowery eulogies became congressional legends; of cancer., after long illness; in Bethesda. Md. A fiery New Dealer, Neely served (since 1949) as chairman of the Senate's District of Columbia Committee (Washington's "unofficial mayor"). Republican Governor Cecil H. Underwood's expected appointment of a successor to Neely's Senate seat will reduce the Senate's Democratic majority from 50-46 to 49-47.
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