Monday, Jun. 06, 1955

Married. Heather Menzies, only daughter of Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies; and Peter Henderson, secretary at the Australian Embassy in Indonesia; in Canberra, Australia.

Married. Martha Wright, 29, sprightly singing star of stage and television (The Martha Wright Show), seasoned veteran of a record 1,047 performances as Nurse Nellie Forbush in the hit musical South Pacific; and George J. Manuche Jr., 34, New York restaurateur; in Newburgh, N.Y.

Married. Claude Dauphin, 51, urbane French stage and screen actor (The Happy Time, Innocents in Paris); and Norma Eberhardt, 25, TV actress widely renowned for her unusual heterochromatic (one blue, one brown) eyes; he for the third time, she for the first; in Oakhurst, NJ.

Married. Roy Allison Roberts, 67, president of the Kansas City Star Co. and editor and general manager of the Star, early backer of Eisenhower as a candidate for President; and Mrs. Florence G. Ross, 61, widow of Charles G. Ross, White House press secretary under President Harry Truman; both for the second time; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Alberto Ascari, 36, internationally famed Italian driver of racing cars; in a crash during a test run at the Monza Autodrome (see SPORT).

Died. Phillips Wyman, 60, magazine circulation expert, publisher of Redbook and Blue Book magazines and a director of the McCall Corp.; of a heart ailment; in Redding, Conn.

Died. Richard S. (Skeets) Gallagher, 64, onetime vaudeville headliner and fast-patter comedy star of stage (No, No, Nanette, Good Night, Ladies) and screen (Idiot's Delight); of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Judge Harold M. Stephens, 69, chief justice of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; of cancer; in Washington. An early and ardent New Dealer, Stephens served with distinction during the early years of the Roosevelt Administration as assistant attorney general in charge of antitrust matters, was appointed to the Court of Appeals in 1935, later lost some of his New Deal support (and probably a Supreme Court appointment) by lining up against the Government in the 1938 decision forbidding the National Bituminous Coal Commission to fix the price of coal.

Died. General Juan Vigon Suerodiaz, 75, chief of the Spanish army general staff and one of Franco's principal advisers on military affairs; of paralysis; in Madrid.

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