Monday, Dec. 24, 1951
Married. Lewis S. (for Samuel) Rosenstiel, 60, Cincinnati-born liquor baron, founder and president of Schenley, who once embarked on an unsuccessful campaign to teach 5,000 parrots to say "Drink Old Quaker" and install them in bars; and Louise Johnson Stark, 53, his first cousin, a surgeon's widow; he for the third time, she for the second; in Atlanta.
Died. Mildred Bailey (real name: Rinker), 48, blues-moaning jazz singer, whose trademark was Rockin' Chair; of a heart ailment; in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Half Coeur d'Alene Indian, she got her start at 17, plugging tunes in a Seattle store for $10 a week, became a radio star with Paul Whiteman's orchestra (1929-34), made records, which have since become collector's items, with most of the leading jazzmen of her day (including ex-Husband Red Norvo).
Died. Russell Allen Firestone, 50, second of five sons of the late tire tycoon Harvey Firestone and a director of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; after long illness; in Manhattan. He devoted his leisure to a series of civic-minded hobbies: the Victory Garden movement (he was a vice president), the 4-H Clubs, the Future Farmers of America.
Died. Dorothy Dix (Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer), 81, first and most famous newspaper dispenser of advice to the lovelorn; in New Orleans. Herself the victim of an unhappy marriage (her husband was stricken with a mental illness within a year of their marriage) and a pioneer sob sister (six years on the New Orleans Picayune, 16 on Hearst's New York Journal), she had a large stock of common sense bromides handy by the time she settled in New Orleans to give counsel to readers. As her column expanded to more than 200 newspapers, and brought her more than $50,000 a year, she became a sort of universal grandmother, marrying off millions of problem children, reconciling the married ones to their mates. For the hundreds who wrote her every week, she became a standard reference for what is proper. Sample problems and solutions: whether to marry a rich or poor man (rich, other things being equal); how to lure men ("the come-hither look in the eye, a sort of come-on, if you know what I mean"); how to deal with a husband who pays no compliments (forget it; few do).
Died. Viscount Addison, 82, oldest of Britain's leading politicians; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Radnage, England. Starting out as a physician, he went to the House of Commons as a Liberal in 1910, later switched to Socialism, in 13 governments successively became Munitions Minister, Minister of Health, Minister of Agriculture and Dominion Secretary, and after he got his title, became Labor's leader in the House of Lords.
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