Monday, Jan. 17, 1955
Born. To Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, 36, Premier of Egypt, and Mme. Nasser, 30: their fifth child, third son. Name: Abdel Hakim. Weight: 9 1/4 lbs.
Married. Thomas E. Millsop, 56, president of National Steel Corp., fifth largest U.S. producer; and Mrs. Frances Weir, widow of David M. Weir, one of the founders of the Weirton Steel Co. (a National subsidiary); he for the third time, she for the second; in San Francisco.
Married. Mrs. Mona Harrison Williams, 57, perennially "best dressed" widow of Public Utilitycoon Harrison Williams, who left her the bulk of his estimated $12 million fortune when he died 14 months ago, aged 80; and Count Albert Edward Bismarck, 51, interior decorator and grandson of Prince Otto von Bismarck, first chancellor of the German Empire; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Edgewater, N.J.
Married. Herbert S. Morrison, 67, deputy leader of the British Labor Party and onetime Foreign Secretary; and Edith Meadowcroft, 47, retired credit-clothing-store manager; he for the second time (his first wife died in 1953), she for the first; in Rochdale, England.
Died. Charles Christian Wertenbaker. 53, longtime (1931-48) FORTUNE and TIME writer and editor, World War II chief TIME-LIFE military correspondent in Europe, writer on U.S. foreign policy (A New Doctrine for the Americas), novelist (Death of Kings); of cancer; in Ciboure, France. Wertenbaker directed TIME'S coverage of the Normandy beachhead, was among the first newsmen to enter liberated Paris, received the Medal of Freedom from the U.S. Army for "exceptionally meritorious achievement." In 1948 he retired to write fiction.
Died. Raissa Irene Berkman Browder, 58, Russian-born wife of Earl Browder, deposed head (1946) of the Communist Party in the U.S., and mother of his three sons; after long illness; in Yonkers, N.Y. Raissa Berkman married Browder in Moscow in 1926, entered the U.S. from Canada in 1933, waged a four-year fight to avoid deportation on grounds of illegal entry. In a politically unpopular decision, the Board of Immigration Appeals permitted her to leave the country and re-enter as a quota immigrant in 1944. She was later barred from naturalization, at the time of her death was again subject to deportation and, with her husband, under perjury indictment on charges of falsely denying Communist Party membership.
Died. General Jose Mendes Ribeiro Norton de Mattos, 88, leading light of Portugal's Liberal Party and bitter opponent of Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar; after long illness; in Ponte do Lima, Portugal. In the 1949 presidential election, De Mattos became the first candidate ever to run in opposition to the Salazar regime, established in 1928. He later withdrew, charging unfair electoral practices.
Died. Sir Arthur Keith, 88, top-ranking British anthropologist, director of the surgical experimental station of the Royal College of Surgeons, renowned for his studies in the origins of modern man, and widely criticized in the 1930s for his defense of war as nature's indispensable "pruning hook"; of a stroke; in Downe, England. An ardent believer in Darwinism (which he called "impregnable"), Sir Arthur devoted his lifetime to searching for the missing link between man and the ape, saw man's prehistoric past as justification for his belief that racial prejudice and nationalism "work for the ultimate good of mankind."
Died. Edward R. Pease, 97, last survivor of Britain's original Fabian Society, founded in 1883 to preach the inevitability of socialism without revolution; in Limpsfield, England. Onetime London Stock Exchange Member Pease represented the Fabians at the conference of socialist organizations in 1900 that gave birth to the British Labor Party.
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