Monday, Oct. 02, 1950
Born. To Sir Ibrahim, 77, opulent Moslem ruler of the Malayan sultanate of Johore, and Sultana Marcella, 34: their first child, his 5th (his eldest, Crown Prince Ismail, is 56), a daughter; in London. Name: Meriam. Weight: 6 Ibs.
Married. Madeleine Carroll, 44, cinemactress; and Andrew Heiskell, 35, publisher of LIFE; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Spain.
Died. Richard Edward Lauterbach, 36, TIME & LIFE correspondent in Russia in 1943-44, author (These Are the Russians), editor in chief of the short-lived monthly magazine called '47, then '48; of poliomyelitis; in Manhattan.
Died. Eugene O'Neill Jr., 40, teacher of literature at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, Greek scholar, critic, son of the playwright; by his own hand (slashing his wrist with a razor) ; in Woodstock, N.Y.
Died. Edward Arthur Milne, 54, Oxford mathematician whose theory of dual time was one of the half-century's major physical syntheses; after long illness; in Dublin. Milne's theory resolved many apparent contradictions of modern physics (to his own satisfaction) by propounding two kinds of time -- "dynamical time" (the pendulum time of everyday life) and "kinematic time" (measured by subatomic phenomena) -- which run on simultaneously but at different rates.
Died. Countess Tatyana Tolstoy, 86, eldest daughter of Russian Novelist Leo Tolstoy; in Rome. An expatriate since 1925, a resident of Rome since 1928, Countess Tolstoy remained a Soviet citizen. Her sister Alexandra, a U.S. citizen (Reed Farm, Valley Cottage, N.Y.), and president of Manhattan's Tolstoy Foundation (which aids Russian refugees), is now the only survivor of Tolstoy's 13 children.
Died. Victoria, Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven, 87, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, sister of the last Czarina of Russia, widow of Prince Louis of Battenberg (Mountbatten), first Marquess of Milford Haven, mother of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, grandmother of the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Elizabeth's husband; in London.
Died. Mrs. Mabel Young Sanborn, 87, the last surviving of Mormon Leader Brigham Young's 56 children; in Salt Lake City.
Died. John Bayne Maclean, 87, founder and builder of Maclean-Hunter Publishing Co. Ltd., Canada's biggest ($11 million last year) publishing empire (Maclean's, 35 other periodicals); in Toronto.
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