Monday, Jan. 10, 1955

Married. Renee ("Zizi") Jeanmaire, 30, tiny, cat-quick ballerina and musi-comedy star (The Girl in Pink Tights); and Roland Petit, 30, founder and director of France's famed Ballets de Paris, in which Jeanmaire first starred; in Saint-Cyr-la-Riviere, France.

Divorced. Gregory Peck, 39, lanky-Lincolnesque cinemactor (Roman Holiday, Man with a Million); by Finnish-born Greta Konen Peck, 42, onetime hairdresser to Actress Katharine Cornell; after twelve years of marriage, three children; in Hollywood.

Died. Jose Antonio ("Chichi") Remon, 46, President of Panama since 1952, prior to that his country's president-making police chief; at the hands of machine-gunning assassins, at Juan Franco race track outside Panama City.

Died. Sir Robert Beaufin Irving, 77, trained-in-sail ex-commodore of the Cunard White Star line, captain of the Queen Mary in 1938 when she broke the eastbound and westbound transatlantic speed records established by the French liner Normandie a year earlier; in Carlisle, England.

Died. Dr. William M. Burton, 89, onetime (1918-27) president of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, inventor (in 1913) of the Burton cracking process, which doubled the potential yield of gasoline available from crude oil and made mass motoring possible; of a heart ailment; in Miami.

Died. Eugen von Habsburg, 91, Archduke of Austria, distant cousin of the late Emperor Franz Josef, commander in chief of Austrian forces on the Italian front in World War I, grand master of the Order of German Knights; of pneumonia; in Merano, Italy. In 1918 Archduke Eugen was exiled from the Austrian republic for failure to renounce his claims to the throne, was invited back by Chancellor Dollfuss in 1934 as a concession to Vienna's imperial sentimentalism.

Died. Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey, 96, top U.S. horticulturist, founder of the nation's first college department of horticulture (at Michigan Agricultural College onetime (1903-13) dean of

Cornell's College of Agriculture and until 1951 director of the university's world-famed Bailey Hortorium, for which he collected more than 250,000 plants;, in Ithaca, N.Y. In his endless search for plants, Dr. Bailey traveled more than 250,000 miles in tropical and semitropical lands (including a trip to West Indian jungles when he was 91), described his findings in more than 65 books. He saw the knowledge of plants as one of the great hopes of mankind and an expression of true internationalism. "My pinks," he once said, "speak all languages alike."

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