Monday, Jun. 23, 1947

Married. Captain John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, 24, only son of the U.S. Army's chief of staff; and Barbara Jean Thompson, 20, a colonel's daughter; both for the first time; at Fort Monroe, near Norfolk, Va.

Died. Air Vice Marshal Sir Umaid Singh Bahadur, 43, Croesus-rich Maharaja of Jodhpur, absolute ruler of 2 1/2 million people in the state that gave its name to a kind of riding breeches; after an appendectomy; in Mount Abu, Rajputana. Westernized at India's Mayo College (for princely sprouts), the Maharaja learned to fly, imported tile bathrooms, favored his subjects with land, judiciary and educational reforms; but he visited England as an Oriental despot with 70 polo ponies, four wives, 100 servants.

Died. The Rev. J. Hugh O'Donnell, 52, president (1940-46) of Notre Dame University, a letter man as center on the 1915 Irish eleven; of cancer; at South Bend, Ind.

Died. Bronislaw Hubermann, 64, Polish-born violinist, rated among Europe's best; at Nant sur Corsier, Switzerland. Noted for his virtuosity (at 13, Hubermann played Brahms for Brahms himself, moved him to tears), Hubermann was one of the first artists to leave Hitler's Germany, spent much of his time thereafter organizing the Palestine Symphony of Tel Aviv and scribbling books in support of a United States of Europe.

Died. Dr. Emily Hickman, 66, professor of history at New Jersey College for Women, lifelong crusader for world peace, member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations conference at San Francisco; when her auto swerved and plunged into a reservoir; in Lincolndale, N.Y.

Died. J. Warren Kerrigan, 67, whose small fortune made (and shrewdly saved) as an early (1911 to 1923) cinematinee idol allowed him to spend his last years pleasantly puttering around his garden; of pneumonia; in Balboa, Calif.

Died. David Ignatius Walsh, 74, hulking Massachusetts politician, longtime favorite of Boston Irish-Catholic Democrats, who kept him in the U.S. Senate for 26 years, twice elected him Governor; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston. A violent Anglophobe (he was known to Capitol Hill wags as "Ireland's Senator"), Isolationist Walsh finally lost his Senate seat in 1946 to Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

Died. Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon, 83, oldtime Royal Navy submarine expert, commander of World War I's famed Dover Patrol, which protected thousands of Allied soldiers from U-boats on the dangerous Channel crossing; in Romsey, Hampshire.

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