Monday, Nov. 09, 1959
Married. Marine Corps Reserve Colonel Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, 46, World War II ace (28 Japanese planes), reformed tosspot and bestselling autobiographer (Baa Baa Black Sheep); and TV Actress Dolores ("Dee") Tatum, 33; he for the third time ("first time I've been married sober"), she for the second; in Denver.
Married. Debbie Montgomery Minardos Power, 27, widow of Cinemactor Tyrone Power; and Movie Scion Arthur Loew Jr., 33 ; she for the third time, he for the first; in Las Vegas, Nev.
Died. James Allan Mollison, 54, Scottish aviator, first (in 1932) to fly the Atlantic solo from east to west (in a tiny de Havilland Puss Moth monoplane) ; of pneumonia ; in London. A Royal Air Force pilot while still in his teens, Jimmy Mollison went on to set a flock of post-Lindbergh records, including Australia-England (1931) in 8 days, England-Cape Town (1932) in less than 5, and, with First Wife Amy Johnson Mollison, also a headlined pilot, England-India (1934) in 22 hours (not a record).
Died. G. (for Gustaf) Aaron Young-quist, 73, Swedish-born member of the U.S. Supreme Court's Advisory Committee on Rules of Criminal Procedure, leader of the investigation that put Al Capone behind bars; in Minneapolis.
Died. Sisavang Vong, 74, longtime (1904-59) King of Laos; in Luangprabang (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Died. Henning Webb Prentis Jr., 75, scholarly careerman (52 years) with Armstrong Cork Co., who rose to be president (1934-50), chairman (since 1950), president of the National Association of Manufacturers (1940); of a cerebral thrombosis; in Lancaster, Pa. As president, Prentis raised annual sales of Armstrong Cork from $22 million to $163 million, assets from $47 million to $112 million, by expanding into over 30 new businesses.
Died. Louis Shattuck Gates, 77, onetime (1930-47) president and board chairman (since 1947) of Phelps Dodge, which he helped make into one of copper's Big Three; in Manhattan.
Died. Dr. Valeria Hopkins Parker, 80, longtime social hygiene specialist and marriage counselor, whose crusades made her a pioneer suffragette, Connecticut's first woman probation officer, later its first state policewoman; in Greenwich, Conn.
Died. Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways, 85, sixth Earl of Ilchester, historian (Chronicles of Holland House) of his ancestors, swan fancier, who in 1935, when the R.A.F. took over some of his Dorset property for an airbase, cried: "Most lamentable!"; in London.
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