Monday, Jun. 29, 1953

Married. Robert Bruce Mathias, 22, Stanford's two-time Olympic decathlon winner (1948, '52) and star fullback; and Melba Wiser, 21, a college classmate; in Stanford Memorial Church, Stanford, Calif. After his graduation next January, Mathias will report for two years' active duty as a Marine Reserve second lieutenant.

Divorced. By Martha Raye, 36, cavern-mouthed comedienne of screen (Monsieur Verdoux) and TV (All Star Review): her fourth husband, Nick Condos, 45, manager of her Miami Beach nightspot, the Five O'Clock Club; after ten years of marriage, one daughter; in Miami.

Divorced. Peter Lorre, 49, droop-eyed cinemenace (M, Mr. Moto, Double Confession); by Kaaren Verne Lorre, 35, former cinemactress (The Seventh Cross, Kings Row); after eight years of marriage, no children; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Died. Norman ("Uncle Normie") Ross, 57, Chicago disk jockey and onetime Olympic swimming champion (1920); of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill. "Big Moose" Ross claimed that he learned to swim by reading an instruction manual, but he broke 72 world records, won both the 400 and the 1,500-meter Olympic races at Antwerp in 1920. Hired by a Chicago radio station in 1931, Ross attracted over a million Midwestern listen ers with his early morning "400 Hour" of classical music and light chatter.

Died. Colonel Rene Fonck, 59, France's top air ace of World War I (in 32 months of aerial combat he got credit for 75 kills, unofficial credit for 51 more); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Paris. A national hero after the 1918 armistice, Fonck turned to civilian flying, narrowly escaped death when his S-35 crashed on the take-off of a 1926 transatlantic attempt. Back in uniform in 1939, Colonel Fonck led a fighter group until France fell, in 1942 disguised himself as a Trappist monk and helped organize an escape route through Belgium for downed Allied airmen. Arrested in 1944 on charges of Vichy collaboration, but never officially indicted, Old War Bird Fonck spent his remaining years running a chemical-products firm in Paris.

Died. Margaret Grace Bondfield, so, Britain's first woman cabinet minister (1929-31) and pioneer in the British labor movement; in Sanderstead, England. Self-educated daughter of a Somerset lacemaker, she began her career as a 14-year-old salesgirl working a 76-hour week in London, soon organized a union among her sister workers. No ultra-feminist, "Saint Maggie" rose through the ranks of the male-led labor movement to head its powerful Trades Union Congress. Elected to Parliament (1923), Socialist Bondfield became Minister of Labor in Ramsay MacDonald's short-lived Labor government.

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