Monday, Sep. 06, 1954
Divorced. By Gloria de Haven, 28, Hollywood musicomedy singer (Down Among the Sheltering Palms): Manhattan Real Estate Broker Martin S. Kimmel, 38, her second husband (first: Cinemactor John Payne); after fourteen months of marriage, no children; in Las Vegas, Nev.
Died. Raymond M. Eastman, 29, advertising copywriter, author three years ago of a provocative safe-driving tract, Ten Seconds to Live; in an automobile crash, when his Jaguar clipped another car while passing and careered into a bridge; in Atlantic, Iowa.
Died. Captain Joseph McConnell Jr., 32, world's leading jet ace (16 kills in Korea); in a test-flight crash; near Edwards Air Force Base, Calif, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).
Died. Lansing Hatfield, 44, onetime (1941-45) Metropolitan Opera bass-baritone (the king in Aida), Broadway singer (Sadie Thompson); of cirrhosis of the liver; in Asheville, N.C.
Died. Willis W. Bradley, 70, retired U.S. Navy captain, onetime (1929-31) governor of Guam and Republican Congressman from California (1947-49), winner of the Medal of Honor in 1917 for heroism during an ammunition explosion aboard the cruiser Pittsburgh (he rescued a sailor, then put out a fire that had almost reached other explosives); of a heart ailment; in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Died. Getulio Vargas. 71. onetime (1930-45) dictator and, since 1950, the constitutionally-elected President of Brazil; by his own hand (shooting); in Rio de Janeiro (see HEMISPHERE).
Died. Adrian D. (for Dwight) Joyce, 81, chairman of the board of the far-flung Glidden Co.; of a heart ailment; in Cleveland. Resourceful Tycoon Joyce bought the Glidden Varnish Co. in 1917, turned waste materials into byproducts and byproducts into big business; in 37 years he built Glidden from a $2,500,000-a-year company to one nearly 100 times that size, ranging the market from powdered copper to charcoal, from soybeans to sandwich spreads.
Died. Marquis Pierre de Chambrun, 89, great-great-grandson of the Marquis de La Fayette; of a heart ailment; in Marvejols, France. An honorary American citizen by virtue of his descent from La Fayette (and husband of Cincinnati-bred Margaret Rives Nichols), Old Statesman de Chambrun put in nearly half a century in the French government, is best remembered as the only Senator to vote against giving Marshal Petain dictatorial powers and establishing the sellout Vichy regime in 1940.
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