Monday, Feb. 10, 1958
Married. Rita Hayworth, 39, cinemactress (Pal Joey); and James Henry Hill, 41, Hollywood writer-producer; she for the fifth time, he for the first; in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Married. Joanne Woodward, 27, Hollywood blonde voted (by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures) 1957's best actress (for her performance in The Three Faces of Eve); and Paul Newman, 33, Methodical cinemactor; she for the first time, he for the second; in Las Vegas, Nev.
Died. Jan Muller, 35, German-born painter who came to the U.S. in 1941, rebelled against the "New York School" ("Abstract art is too esoteric"), was one of the best semi-traditionalists; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Henry ("Pete") Salomon, 40, moving spirit, producer and co-author of NBC's high-rated, 26-week teledocumen-tary, Victory at Sea; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan.
Died. Robert Daniels Levitt, 47, longtime (1931-55) Hearst syndicate reporter, columnist (New York Journal) and publisher (The American Weekly), onetime (1941-52) husband of Musicomedienne Ethel Merman; by his own hand (barbiturates); in East Hampton, N.Y.
Died. Prince Oskar Karl Gustav Adolf of Prussia, 69, last surviving son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who got bounced from army ranks (he was a major general) in 1940 when Hitler slapped down on old royalty; of cancer; in Munich.
Died. Ernst Heinkel, 70. German airplane pioneer, designer (with a propulsion unit developed by Wernher von Braun) of the world's first (in 1939) rocket plane (the He 176) and jet-propelled aircraft (the He 178), a shrewd mastermind of Luftwaffe production whose farseeing predictions and plans were thumbed down by Hitler and Goring; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Stuttgart, West Germany. Denazified in 1949, Heinkel made motor scooters and midget cars, recently announced plans to go back into big-time planemaking with Willi Messerschmitt.
Died. Dr. Andre Crotti, 84, Swiss-educated, internationally famed goiter specialist and author (Thyroid and Thy-mus); in Columbus, Ohio, on the day that his French Artist-Brother Jean Crotti, 79, a forerunner of the surrealist movement and first developer of the now popular gemmaux technique (TIME, March 25), died in Paris.
Died. Bertrand H. Snell, 87, longtime (1914-38) hardshell Republican representative from upstate New York, bitter foe of the New Deal as House Minority Leader (1931-38); in Potsdam, N.Y.
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