Monday, Mar. 03, 1958
Marriage Revealed. Geoffrey Home, 24, cinemactor (the commando recruit in The Bridge on the River Kwai); and Nancy Berg, 26, actress-model, onetime sandwoman of Manhattan's WRCA-TV late late mattress-sponsored show Count Sheep; in Manhattan; on Feb. 6.
Died. Dwight Herbert Green, 61, onetime (1941-48) Republican governor of Illinois, early famed as federal prosecutor of Al Capone, later as yes-man to the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert R. McCormick; of lung cancer; in Chicago. Green nominated Thomas E. Dewey for the presidency in 1944, keynoted the 1948 Republican Convention. Trying for an unprecedented third consecutive term, he was defeated by Adlai Stevenson, soon reappeared in the news as the governor who put 51 Illinois newsmen on the state payroll, spent his final years practicing law in Chicago.
Died. Frederick May Eliot, 68, president (since 1937) of the American Unitarian Association, leader of some 100,000 Unitarians in the U.S. and Canada, first cousin ("We're at opposite poles on some issues") of Poet-Playwright-Critic T. S. Eliot; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Joe Frisco (real name: Louis Wilson Josephs), 68, stuttering comedian of vaudeville and nightspots, famed for his nonstop quips ("I, had a g-g-great day at the track. I got a r-r-ride home") and the Frisco Dance, a soft-shoe treatment of The Darktown Strutters' Ball trademarked by a tilted derby and a glowing cigar; of cancer; in Hollywood.
Died. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, 69, Indian Minister of Education, Natural Resources and Scientific Research, Jeader in his country's independence movement, intimate of Gandhi and Nehru, scholar; of a stroke; in New Delhi. At the Moslem service for the Mecca-born philosopherstatesman (with about 100,000 mourners, the largest Indian funeral gathering since the cremation of Gandhi), Prime Minister Nehru wept, said: "The whole nation has been orphaned."
Died. Al (for Alexander) Lichtman, 69, pioneer film distributor, onetime president of United Artists, vice president of M-G-M and 20th Century-Fox (executive producer of Boys Town, The Wizard of Oz); of a heart attack; in West Los Angeles. Two years ago, ailing from asthma and heart trouble, Hungarian-born Lichtman retired from Fox, holed up in Manhattan's Ritz Tower, quietly went to work on a story which no one wanted. A war novel, it had been kicking around producers' offices for about eight years, was considered too diffuse and sprawling for the screen. Lichtman liked it anyway, painstakingly turned out a script, came out of retirement at Fox's request, saw The Young Lions through production, died a month before its release.
Died. Henry Bruere, 76, longtime president of Manhattan's Bowery Savings Bank, dollar-a-year man in F.D.R.'s first Administration, adviser to New York mayors over a span of five decades; in Winter Park, Fla. Bruere, who gave New York its first budget system, was named city chamberlain in 1914, resigned after two year because he thought his $12,000-a-year office should be abolished (it was, 20 years later). Turning to banking at 45, he became president of the world's largest mutual savings bank in 1931.
Died. Eugene Higgins, 83, American painter and etcher, artistic descendant of France's 19th century Romantic Jean Francois Millet; after long illness; in Manhattan. Missouri-born Gene Higgins put in seven bohemian years in Paris, returned to the U.S. in 1904, spent the rest of his life painting slum figures, tramps, refugees --mostly in and around New York City.
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