Monday, Jan. 12, 1959

Married. Ashley Cooper, 22, Australian tennis player, world's top-ranked amateur, 1958 champion at both Forest Hills and Wimbledon; and Helen Wood, 20, Miss Australia of 1957; two days after Australia lost the Davis Cup to the U.S. (see SPORT); in a wedding mobbed by 5,000 fans; in Brisbane.

Died. Seymour Berkson, 53, publisher (since 1955) of the New York Journal-American, longtime (1945-55) vice president and general manager of the International News Service; of a heart attack; in San Francisco.

Died. Valentina Pavlovna Guercken Wasson, 57, Russian-born Manhattan pediatrician who, with her husband, stood in the absolute front rank of amateur experts on the mushroom; of cancer; in Manhattan. Dr. and Mrs. R. Gordon Wasson (a vice president of J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc.) traveled around the world in pursuit of exotic mushrooms, published in 1957 the two-volume Mushrooms, Russia and History. Probably the most recondite work on mycology ever printed, it was limited to 512 copies, sold for $125, now brings $250.

Died. Doris Humphrey, 63, Illinois-born, Denishawn-trained dancer, teacher and choreographer, who with Charles Weidman formed her own school and company in 1928 (opening what New York Times Critic John Martin soon called "a new chapter in American dancing"), creator of such modern dance masterpieces as The Shakers, With My Red Fires and (for Jose Limon) Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias; of cancer; in Manhattan. Her active career was stopped by crippling arthritis in 1945, but Doris Humphrey went on teaching, organized the Juilliard Dance Theater in 1954. After ten years of preparation, Doris Humphrey's Guggenheim-financed book, The Art of Making Dances, is on Rinehart's spring list.

Died. Edward Adam Strecker, 72, emeritus professor of psychiatry at the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, expert on behavior disorders of children, author, whose 1946 study Their Mothers' Sons examined the U.S.'s "mom-archie" society, attributed much mental disease to "momism"; of lung cancer; in Philadelphia. In Strecker's lexicon, a "Mom" was not a mother. "Mom is a maternal parent who fails to prepare her offspring emotionally for living a productive adult life on an adult social plane. A Mom does not untie the emotional apron string," and the result is an immature son or daughter. What is maturity? "It is the ability to see a job through, to give more than is asked for or required in any given situation . . . dependability . . . independence of thought and action . . . the capacity to cooperate. The mature person is pliable and can alter his own desires according to time, persons and circumstances. He is tolerant, he is patient, he is adaptable."

Died. Edward S. Jordan, 76, early automaker (the sporty Jordan Playboy), president (1916-31) of the Jordan Motor Car Co., which collapsed under the Depression; in Manhattan.

Died. Edward John Noble, 76, upstate New Yorker who pooled funds with a friend, bought the Life Savers Co. in 1913 for $2,900, poked a hole in the candy mints, packaged them brightly, watched his business grow into Beech-Nut Life Savers, Inc. with sales well over $100 million a year; in Greenwich, Conn. Owner of one of the first Autogiros, Yaleman Noble had a lifelong interest in aviation, was made first chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Authority in 1938, also served for a year as first Under Secretary of Commerce. In 1940, Republican Noble quit the Roosevelt Administration to participate in the presidential campaign of Fellow Businessman Wendell Willkie. In 1943 he bought radio's Blue Network for $8,000,000. created the American Broadcasting Co.

Died. The Rev. Laurence J. Kenny, 94, professor emeritus of history at St. Louis University, veteran of 57 years of teaching, and the oldest member of the Jesuit order in the U.S.; in St. Louis.

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