Monday, Apr. 25, 1955
Born. To Princess Josephine Charlotte, 27, sister of King Baudouin of Belgium, and Prince Jean, 34, heir apparent to the throne now occupied by his mother, Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg: their second child, first son; in Betzdorf Castle, Luxembourg. Name: Henri. Weight: 6 Ibs. 10 oz.
Married. Corinne Calvet, 29, busty, French-born cinemactress (So This Is Paris'); and Jeffrey Stone, 29, TV actor (The Three Musketeers); she for the second time, he for the first; in Tangier.
Died. Vice Admiral Lyman A. Thackrey, 57, former chairman of the Joint Amphibious Board. World War II senior U.S. naval planner for the Normandy landings, commander of Amphibious Group 3 in the 1950-51 landings at Inchon and Iwon in Korea; of cancer; in San Diego.
Died. William A. Roberts, 57, president (since 1951) of Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., member of President Eisenhower's five-man advisory committee on a national highway program; of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. In his 29 years with Allis-Chalmers, Bill Roberts served as salesman, agricultural sales manager of the tractor division and later its general manager, helped push the company from ninth among U.S. farm-equipment manufacturers to third.
Died. Vice Admiral C. A. F. ("Alphabet") Sprague, 59, veteran naval aviator, commander of the group of six escort carriers, three destroyers and four destroyer escorts that helped save the U.S. beachhead in the Philippines by turning back the bulk of the Japanese fleet in the Battle for Leyte Gulf in October, 1944; of a heart attack; in San Diego.
Died. Edgar Jonas Kaufmann, 69, president (since 1924) of Kaufmann's Department Store in Pittsburgh (which was merged with the May Department Stores Co. in 1946), philanthropist, civic leader, fancier of modern homes (the most famous of his houses: Falling Water, the lavish $90,000 Frank Lloyd Wright mountain retreat located at Bear Run, Pa., which features concrete slabs cantilevered over a waterfall); of a heart condition; in Palm Springs, Calif.
Died. The Rev. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., 74, world-renowned, French-born paleontologist, co-discoverer (in 1924) of the Peking man, the first actual remains of paleolithic man found in Asia; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Father Teilhard regarded the Peking man as an important link between the anthropoids and modern man, saw no contradiction between Roman Catholic doctrine and scientific evidence of man's animal origin. "The significant fact about man," he said, "is the coming of thought with and through him."
Died. General Peyton Conway March, 90. bearded, sharp-tongued World War I U.S. Chief of Staff; of complications resulting from a broken hip; in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital. West Pointer March, commissioned in 1888, served with distinction in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. He was General John Pershing's artillery commander on the Western Front when he was recalled to Washington in March 1918 to become Army Chief of Staff. To provide the men to meet the last massive German offensive, he got draft ages extended to 18 and 45, in eight months swelled the American Expeditionary Force from 300,000 to more than 2,000,000 men. Scornful of political protocol, he alienated many Congressmen, retired in 1921, regarding himself as one of the "forgotten men" of World War I. He reappeared in the news in 1932 when he published his book, The Nation at War, which sniped at General Pershing for faulty leadership, preposterous supply demands and failure to understand French military policy.
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