Monday, May. 08, 1950
Born. To Dominic ("The Little Professor") DiMaggio, 32, spectacled centerfielder of the Boston Red Sox, arch-rival and loyal booster of Yankee ace big brother Joe, and Emily Frederick DiMaggio, 27: their first child, a son. Name: Dominic Paul. Weight: 7 Ibs. 13 1/2 oz.
Married. King Phumiphon of Siam, 22, Boston-born, saxophone-tootling King of Siam; and Princess Sirikit Kitiyakara, 17, his distant royal cousin; in Bangkok (see PEOPLE).
Married. Joan Caulfield, 27, blonde cinemactress (Dear Ruth); and Frank Ross, 45, Hollywood producer (A Lady Takes a Chance); in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Marriage Revealed. Arthur Koestler, 45, expatriate Hungarian author, widely read interpreter of the Communist mind (Darkness at Noon, The God That Failed); and his secretary, 34, who two years ago legally changed her name from Mamaine Paget to Mamaine Paget Koestler; she for the first time, he for the second; in Paris.
Died. Robert James Doyle, 31, TIME-LIFE Far Eastern correspondent; in an attack by Indonesian terrorists in which Yale Sociology Professor Raymond Kennedy, 43, was also killed; near Tomo, U.S.I, (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Died. Generoso Pope, 59, Italian-born New Yorker who rose from $3-a-week water boy to Tammany Hall big shot and publisher of one of the country's largest foreign-language newspapers, Il Progresso Italo-Americano (circ. 78,000) ; after long illness; in Manhattan. With profits from his $8,847,988 Colonial Sand and Stone Co. Inc., Pope bought three Italian-language dailies which he merged into one. After supporting Italy's fascist regime for a dozen years, Publisher-Politico Pope repudiated Mussolini in 1941, was active in pushing the U.S.-to-Italy letter-writing campaign which helped defeat the Italian Reds in the '48 elections.
Died. Walter V. Hutchinson, 62, multimillionaire British publisher and sportsman, after long illness; in Winchester, England. Self-styled "the world's largest" book publisher (10 million a year), Art Patron Hutchinson collected and donated to his country -L-900,000 worth of paintings and prints, known as the National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes.
Died. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, 69, Harvard-educated authority on Russian drama, grandson of Poet Longfellow and Author Richard Henry Dana (Two Years Before the Mast); of a heart ailment; in Cambridge, Mass. He was fired from the Columbia faculty in 1917 for pacifism, barred from England in 1932 for pro-Communist activities.
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