Monday, Oct. 18, 1954
Divorced. By Corinne Calvet, 28, bosomy French-born cinemactress (On the Riviera): John Bromfield, 32, sometime cinemactor (The Cimarron Kid); after six years of marriage, no children; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Divorced. By Guy Madison (real name:
Robert O. Moseley), 32, cinema and TV actor (Wild Bill Hickok): Gail Russell, 29, onetime cinemactress (The Lawless); after five years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif.
Died. Robert Houghwout Jackson, 62, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; of a heart ailment; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).
Died. George W. Mason, 63, president and board chairman of American Motors (Nash, Hudson): of acute pancreatitis and pneumonia; in Detroit. Tireless Carmaker Mason became president of the Kelvinator Corp. when he was 38, engineered the 1936 merger with Nash and consolidation with Hudson early this year (TIME, Jan. 25). At the time of his death, he was dickering with Studebaker-Packard for another merger that would have resulted in the world's second largest auto firm (behind General Motors).
Died. Allen Billingsley, 64, since 1928 president of Cleveland's Fuller & Smith & Ross, Inc. advertising agency (accounts: Westinghouse, "Alcoa," Sherwin-Williams), twice board chairman (1939 and 1944) of the American Association of Advertising Agencies; of a heart ailment; in Cleveland.
Died. Francesco Cardinal Borgongini Duca, 70, one of the chief negotiators in the establishment of a sovereign Vatican state in 1929, since that date the papal nuncio to Italy, author (1952) of The Seventy Weeks of Daniel and the Messianic Date, in which he used the cryptographic prophecies in the book of Daniel to establish the date of Christ's crucifixion as April 7, A.D. 30; of a heart ailment; in Rome.
Died. Yukio Ozaki, 95, donor of Washington's famed cherry trees; of an intestinal ailment; near Yokohama. A longtime (1890-1953) member of the Japanese Diet (which called him the "father of Parliaments") and mayor (1903-12) of Tokyo, Internationalist Ozaki sent a thank-you gift of 2,000 trees in 1909 in gratitude for U.S. mediation efforts in the Russo-Japanese War. When an insect-conscious U.S. Agriculture Department burned them, he patiently sent another 3,000 bug-free trees, which still bloom yearly in the capital. A fragile man with a sensitive face, Ozaki was popular enough to be able to defy the Japanese war machine, from his seat in the Diet denounced Nipponese militarism even at the height of Japan's World War II successes.
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