Monday, Aug. 04, 1958
Born. To Patrice Munsel, 33, Metropolitan Opera soprano turned television star (The Patrice Munsel Show), and Robert Schuler, 42, TV producer: their second son, third child; prematurely, in Formentor, Majorca, Spain. Name: Scott Carlos. Weight: 2 lbs. 14 oz.
Married. Miyoshi Umeki, 24, doll-like (5 ft. 2 in., 100 lbs.) Japanese cinemactress, who last March received an Academy Award as 1957's best supporting actress for her performance in Sayonara; and Frederick Winfield Opie, 34, TV associate director; she for the first time, he for the second; in Van Nuys, Calif.
Died. Captain Iven C. Kincheloe Jr., 30, U.S.A.F. jet pilot, Korean war ace, holder of the world's altitude record (nearly 24 miles up in the Bell X-2 rocket plane), designated to fly the missile-like X-15 now being built to go higher than 100 miles; in the crash of his F-104 Starfighter; near Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
Died. Alan Magee Scaife, 58, Pittsburgh industrialist and serviceman in both world wars, board chairman of Scaife Co., president of the board of trustees of the University of Pittsburgh, fellow of Yale University's Yale Corporation; of a myocardial infarction; in Pittsburgh. Marrying Sarah Mellon of the banking Mellon family, Scaife stayed with his family firm, became a vice president of T. Mellon & Sons, and member of a dozen big corporate boards, was one of the civic leaders who helped carry out the postwar redevelopment of the city's famed Golden Triangle.
Died. Franklin Pangborn, 60-odd, longtime cinemactor-comedian, stage and TV performer, who played foil to W.C. Fields in The Bank Dick and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, to Jack Benny in The Horn Blows at Midnight and George Washington Slept Here; after an operation; in Santa Monica, Calif.
Died. Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko, 63, Russian satirist, who was at the top of the 1946 Soviet purge list of nonconforming authors; in Leningrad. The work singled out by the purgers was Adventures of a Monkey, the story of a marmoset that escapes from a zoo hit by a fascist bomb, awkwardly adapts to the Soviet society on the outside, at one point decides: "Oh, dear, it was silly to leave the zoo. You could breath more peacefully in the cage."
Died. Lieut. General Claire Lee Chennault, U.S.A. (ret.), 67, fighter pilot; of lung cancer; in New Orleans.
Died. Eugene Millikin, 67, longtime (1941-56) Republican Senator from Colorado, who retired because of rheumatoid arthritis that confined him to a wheelchair; of pneumonia; in Denver. Lawyer Millikin, who turned to politics from a successful career in the oil business, was a Taft-supporting conservative, a tariff protectionist, a tax expert, and the portrait of a Senator in his look and bearing. His wit was cutting; in a debate he once remarked: "If the distinguished Senator will allow me, I will try to extricate him from his thoughts."
Died. William Oberhardt, 75, charcoal portraitist of distinguished sitters, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Warren G. Harding, Richard M. Nixon. Cardinal Spellman, Bernard Baruch, John Foster Dulles, William Howard Taft, Charles Dana Gibson, Luther Burbank, Thomas A. Edison; of a heart attack; in Pelham, N.Y. "Obie" Oberhardt's portrait of the late Joseph G. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, onetime (1903-11) Speaker of the House of Representatives, appeared on TIME'S first cover, March 3, 1923. Drawing VIPs one after another in one-hour sessions, Oberhardt learned to control his awed nerves by recalling the dry advice of one of his portrait subjects, Inventor Hudson Maxim: "The more you get to know celebrities, the more you will find their halo hanging over one ear."
Died. Harry Morris Warner, 76, longtime (1926-56) president of Hollywood's Warner Brothers studios, eldest of four brothers who started a theater in New Castle, Pa. with $150 worth of projection equipment, built a company with 1957 assets of more than $78 million; of a cerebral occlusion; in Los Angeles. Under Polish-born Harry Warner, the brothers pioneered talking pictures (Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer in 1927), acquired a stable of stars that included John Barrymore, Gary Cooper, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Paul Muni, Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Rin-Tin-Tin. Two years ago, when Warner Brothers sold a third of its outstanding common stock to an Eastern syndicate, Harry yielded the presidency to his youngest brother, Jack, retired to raise thoroughbred race horses.
Died. Burton Holmes, 88, lecturer, globetrotter, film maker, autobiographer (The World Is Mine), who in 1904 coined the word travelogue; in Hollywood. Son of a Chicago grain broker, Holmes became a world traveler in his teens, spent 55 summers abroad, circled Sputnik-like around the world, gave more than 8,000 film-illustrated lectures, formed an accurate picture of the world for millions of Americans in the leisurely years before radio and the airliner. "I am not an explorer," said Holmes. "The South Pole belongs to Byrd and Amundsen, and they can have it." He filled his Manhattan apartment with exotic curios and burnished idols, and called it Nirvana; his wife called it Buddha-pest.
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