Monday, Apr. 09, 1951
Remarried. William Saroyan, 42, playwright (The Time of Your Life) and novelist (The Human Comedy); and Carol Stuart Marcus Saroyan, 26, onetime Manhattan socialite, who divorced him in 1949 after more than six years of marriage; in Los Angeles.
Died. Ralph Forbes, 45, mannered actor of the old school, who came to the U.S. from his native London in 1924, stayed on to appear in more than 60 roles on Broadway (Hedda Gabler) and Hollywood (Frenchman's Creek); ex-husband of Actresses Ruth Chatterton and Heather Angel; of post-operative pneumonia; in The Bronx, N.Y.
Died. Countess Ida Coudenhove-Kalergi, fiftyish, onetime Viennese actress, longtime collaborator with her Austrian-Japanese husband, Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, in his career as the founder and most articulate advocate of the Pan-European Union, designed to combat nationalism and prevent war; of a heart attack; in Nyon, Switzerland.
Died. Jerome Dunstan Travers, 64, top golfer in the pre-Bobby Jones era, four times National Amateur champion (in 1907, '08, '12 and '13), National Open champion in 1915; of a coronary occlusion; in East Hartford, Conn.
Died. Sir Harold Beresford Butler, 67, a founder of the League of Nations' I.L.O. (International Labour Organization), who served as its director (1932-38), then as warden of Oxford's Nuffield College (r939-43), finally as Director General of the British Information Services in America during the war years; of acute pancreatitis; in Reading, England.
Died. Porter Sargent, 78, Boston's Brooklyn-born, pleasantly eccentric critic of education, who poked at educators' weak spots in his annual Handbook of Private Schools; after an operation; in Boston. In his hit-or-miss way, he denounced snobbery, prudishness, convention, academism, alumni influence, regimentation, kept his scholastic audience--"scared prostitutes, pimps and panderers" --always amused, often edified. He thought Alma Mater in general was a "flatulent old bawd," said of his own in particular: "Harvard practically ruined me!"
Died. Rabbi Zvi Rabinsohn, 88, father of Communist Boss Ana Pauker of Rumania ; after long illness; in Tel Aviv, Israel. Fanatically Orthodox himself, he brought his ungainly daughter up strictly, left Rumania for Israel after the Reds (aided by Ana) took over, never saw Ana again.
Died. Eugene Bouton, 100, whose life as high-school educator and tax board clerk was brightened by his claim to distinction as Yale's oldest son (class of '75); in Bloomfield, NJ.
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