Monday, Jun. 15, 1959
Married. Dr. Hans Albert Einstein, 55, son of Physicist Albert Einstein, professor of hydraulic engineering at the University of California; and Elizabeth Roboz, 56, research biochemist at Stanford University Medical School; he for the second time, she for the first; in Berkeley, Calif.
Died. Charles Vidor, 58, Hungarian-born Hollywood director (The Swan, Hans Christian Anderson), who promoted Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford and other stars; of a heart attack; in Vienna.
Died. Dr. Morton Charles Kahn, 63, adventurous bacteriologist who tramped through the jungles of South America on numerous expeditions to study tropical diseases, developed (1948) a trap that could destroy 1,500 malaria-bearing mosquitoes a day (a recording of the hum of the female mosquito lures the males from miles around to an electrified screen that kills them on contact); of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. James Zetek, 72, entomologist who spent 36 years studying the behavior of termites on Barro Colorado Island (a haven for biological study that he helped found in the Panama Canal Zone), discovered a species of termite that could gnaw through 5 in. of concrete; of pneumonia; in Panama.
Died. Sax Rohmer (pen name for Arthur Sarsfield Ward), about 76, creator of 20th century English fiction's most durable villain: Fu Manchu; after long illness ; in London. Modeled on a mysterious Chinese Rohmer spotted one night in 1913 in the Limehouse fog, wily, sinister Fu Manchu outwitted his Anglo-Saxon pursuers in and out of 13 books and the most exotic parts of the world, assembled a memorable team of Oriental ogres to dispose of his victims, lured such connoisseurs of evil as Boris Karloff and Warner (Charlie Chan) Oland to portray him on screen, almost died horribly at times but was so popular and profitable that he managed to survive and thrive: Rohmer sold him to movies, radio and TV. A mystery himself, Rohmer avoided people, tinkered with spiritualism, in later years wearied of Fu. His last book on Fu (Emperor Fu Manchu) will appear posthumously, fulfilling a prophecy that Fu once whispered to Rohmer's inflamed imagination: "It is your belief that you have made me; it is mine that I shall live when you are smoke."
Died. Eugene McAuliffe, 92, president (1923-44), board chairman (1944-47) of Union Pacific Coal Co., a leader of the coal industry who always considered the welfare of his miners: he mechanized his mines without dropping a man, sent Chinese laborers who proved unsuitable for the mines back to China at company expense; in Omaha.
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