Monday, Sep. 28, 1959
Born. To Groaner Bing Crosby, 55, and Cinemactress Kathy Grant, 25: their first daughter, second child (Bing's sixth); in Los Angeles. Name: Mary Frances. Weight: 6 Ibs. 15 oz.
Married. Kristin Norstad, 21, only daughter of NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad; and Nicholas Wesson Craw, 22, student at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and son of Medal-of-Honor-winning Army Air Corps Colonel Demas Craw, who was machine-gunned by Vichy troops on a truce mission in the North Africa campaign in 1942; in Paris.
Died. Bert deWayne Morris, 45, pre-World War II screen glamour boy (Kid Galahad), who won his wings as a fighter pilot (57 missions, seven kills, Distinguished Flying Cross) in the Pacific in World War II, returned to a series of B-grade films, recently made a comeback on TV; of a heart attack, while visiting his old squadron commander, Captain David McCampbell, top U.S. Navy ace in World War II, aboard the carrier Bon Homme Richard; at Oakland. Calif.
Died. Vera von Schuschnigg, 55, gracious, musical Viennese beauty who married Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg by proxy (1938) when he was held incommunicado by the invading Nazis, followed him from one concentration camp to another, until both were liberated by U.S. troops in 1945, came to the U.S., where the ex-Chancellor is now professor of government at St. Louis University; of cancer; in Kirkwood, Mo.
Died. Dr. Gregory Zilboorg, 68, Russian-born Manhattan psychiatrist, secretary to the Minister of Labor in Kerensky's short-lived provisional government, who fled to the U.S. in 1919, helped found (1936) the Committee for the Study of Suicide in hopes of finding a prevention for suicide, psychoanalyzed well-heeled patients, wrote several books (Sigmund Freud, Freud and Religion); of cancer; in Manhattan.
Died. William H. Werner, 69, chiropractor who rallied his colleagues against the American Medical Association, in 1931 served a six-month jail sentence for practicing medicine without a license, on his release was honored at a testimonial dinner by 500 friends; of a hemorrhage; in Columbus.
Died. Howard Gould, 88, third and last surviving of the four sons of Railroad Baron Jay Gould, a yachtsman and globetrotting chum of European royalty who developed a weakness for actresses, married a jaunty member of Buffalo Bill's circus troupe named Katherine Clemmons who in 1909 enlivened a separation trial by complaining that it was hard to dress well on $40,000 a year; in Manhattan.
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