Monday, Jan. 05, 1959
Born. To Rory Calhoun (real name: Francis Timothy Durgin), 36, cinemactor, and Lita Baron, 28, Spanish-born onetime singer for Bandleader Xavier Cugat: their second child, second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Tami Diane. Weight: 6 Ibs. 13 oz.
Married. Donald Campbell, 37, aqua-motive speedster who--in his buglike jet hydroplane Bluebird--has established himself as the fastest man afloat (248.62 m.p.h.), son of the late land-sea Speed Merchant Sir Malcolm Campbell; and Tonia Bern, 28, TV and cabaret entertainer; he for the third time, she for the second; in London. Would Campbell stop risking his life in pursuit of more speed records? Said he: "Don't be daft."
Marriage Revealed. Mitsue Tojo, 40, who has lived in seclusion since her father, Japan's World War II Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, was hanged as a war criminal in 1948; and General Shigeru Sugiyama, 56, chief of staff of Japan's Defense Agency; she for the first time, he for the second; Dec. 17.
Married. Ingrid Bergman, 42, cinemactress; and Swedish Impresario Lars Schmidt, 45; she for the third time, he for the second; in London.
Divorced. Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales, 30, self-assured ("I'm the best player in the world") professional tennis champion; by Henrietta Gonzales, 28; after ten years of marriage, three children ; in Los Angeles.
Died. Eva Gauthier, 73, concert mezzo-soprano, niece of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canada's first French-Canadian Prime Minister; in Manhattan.
Died. Lion Feuchtwanger, 74, Munich-born novelist (Proud Destiny, Josephus, The Pretender, Jephta and His Daughter, This Is the Hour), anti-Nazi who escaped from a concentration camp dressed as a woman and made his way to the U.S. during World War II; in Los Angeles.
Died. Thomas F. Ford, 85, onetime (1933-45) Democratic Congressman from California, former literary editor of the Los Angeles Times; in South Pasadena, Calif. Re-election in 1944 would have been a sure thing for Congressman Ford, but he refused to run, called the U.S. House of Representatives "the least enlightened and dumbest bunch I ever had anything to do with."
Died. Edith Stuyvesant Dresser Vanderbilt Gerry, 85, widow of Rhode Island's longtime Democratic Senator Peter Goelet Gerry, onetime wife of George Washington Vanderbilt, direct descendant of Nieuw Amsterdam's Peter Stuyvesant; after long illness; in Providence.
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