Monday, Mar. 24, 1958
Born. To Lew Hoad, 23, Australian pro tennis star, and Jennifer Hoad, 23: their second child, second daughter; in Melbourne. Weight: 7 Ibs. 12 oz.
Born. To Princess Grace of Monaco, 28, and Prince Rainier, 34: their second child, first son; in Monaco. Name: Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre. Weight: 8 Ibs. 12 oz. (see PEOPLE).
Born. To Lord Ogilvy, 31, heir to the 300-year-old earldom of Airlie, and Lady Ogilvy, 25, the former Virginia Fortune Ryan, daughter of New York Socialite John B. Ryan, granddaughter of the late Banker Otto Kahn, great-granddaughter of Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan: their third child, first son; in London.
Married. Francoise Sagan (real name: Franchise Quoirez), 22, bestselling French novelist (Bonjour Tristesse, A Certain Smile), who has often expressed the belief that young girls should marry men in their 40s; and Guy Schoeller, 42, her publisher, to whom she dedicated her third book (Those Without Shadows); she for the first time, he for the second; in Paris.
Divorced. By Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, 38, Shah of Iran: Soraya, 25, his Queen; in Teheran (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Died. Woop (real name: William Wolpe), 54, German-born French political cartoonist (L'Aurore); of a coronary thrombosis; in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Died. Air Force Brigadier General James W. McCauley, 57, vice commander of the Eastern Air Defense Force, architect of air warning systems, World War II commander of the 70th Fighter Wing (Europe); of a heart attack; at Stewart Air Force Base, Newburgh, N.Y.
Died. Leopold H. Lorraine, 61, a Habsburg archduke, grandnephew of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, who renounced his titles to become a U.S. citizen; an extra in Hollywood, later a maintenance man at the American Screw Co. plant in Willimantic, Conn.; of cancer; in Willimantic.
Died. Giuseppe Romita, 71, post-World War II Italian Cabinet minister, anti-Communist Socialist who once shouted in a party convention: "We have become just the boot cleaners of the Communists, who--if the truth were known--are highly amused with our efforts to discover our soul," later led an intraparty revolt against Communist ties; in Rome.
Died. Wang Chung-hui, 77, jurist, statesman, first Foreign Affairs Minister of the Chinese Nationalist Republic, onetime judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague, World War II Secretary-General of China's Supreme National Defense Council, onetime Chief Justice (appointed 1920) of the Supreme Court of China; after long illness; in Taipei, Formosa. Born in Canton, educated at Peiyang University, Yale University and in Europe, ubiquitous Scholar Wang was author of the standard English translation of the German Civil Code, onetime co-editor of the Journal of the American Bar Association, pen behind the Yueh Fa (China's modernized code of laws).
Died. John J. Dempsey, 78, Democratic Congressman from New Mexico and the state's former two-term (1943-47) governor; of complications following a virus infection; in Washington. Once a vice president of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. Jack Dempsey moved west, served New Mexico in the U.S. Congress from 1935 to 1941, again since 1951, last month pushed through an amendment that calls for the immediate beginning of construction on one of his pet projects: the $37 million Navajo Dam in the Upper Colorado Basin.
Died. Princess Ingeborg of Sweden, 79, daughter of Frederik VIII of Denmark, widow of Prince Carl (who turned down the Norwegian crown), mother-in-law of Norway's King Olaf V and Denmark's Prince Axel; in Stockholm.
Died. Rush Roberts (also known as Fancy Eagle), 98, last survivor of the 100 Pawnee scouts recruited by the U.S. Army in the autumn of 1876 to help avenge the death of General George A. Custer; in Pawnee, Okla. The expeditions assisted by the Pawnees were moderately successful, but never got the best of the Sioux victors of the Little Bighorn River: Chief Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.
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