Monday, Jan. 02, 1956
Born. To Major John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, 33, only son of President Dwight Eisenhower, and Barbara Thompson Eisenhower, 29; their fourth child, third daughter; in Washington. Name: Mary Jean. Weight: 7 Ibs. 2 oz.
Married. Dorothy Warren, 24, second daughter of Chief Justice Earl Warren; and Dr. Carmine E. Clemente, 27, assistant professor of anatomy at U.C.L.A.'s Medical Center; in Palos Verdes.
Married. Enos ("Country") Slaughter, 39, outfielder for the Kansas City Athletics, longtime (1938-53) heavy-hitting star of the St. Louis Cardinals; and Helen Spiker, 25, TWA stewardess; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Cumberland, Md.
Married. Thurgood Marshall, 47, counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (TIME, Sept. 19); and Hawaiian-born Cecilia Suyat, 28; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan.
Died. Sir Keith Macpherson Smith, 64, Vickers Ltd. aircraft representative in Australia, who with his brother, Sir Ross Smith, made the first (1919) England-to-Australia flight; in Sydney, Australia.
Died. Charles F. M. Browne, eighty-fivish, U.S. Negro messenger at the British embassy in Washington for 67 years, author (A Short History of the British Embassy in Washington, or Forty Years in a School of Diplomacy); in Washington. Among his kudos: an honorary L.L.B. from Howard University, the British Empire Medal from the late King George VI.
Died. Mary Agnes Fisher Thurber, 89, mother of The New Yorker Humorist James Thurber and subject of his essay Lavender with a Difference: "Lavender and old lace ... are not for Mary Thurber. It would be hard for me to say what it is ... She never wears black . . . 'Black is for old ladies,' she told me . . . not long ago"; in Columbus, Ohio.
Died. Josephine D. Peary. 92, widow of Admiral Robert E. (North Pole) Peary; in Portland, Me. Josephine Peary accompanied her husband on three arctic journeys, fashioned the taffeta U.S. flag that he planted in the ice at the top of the world in the first expedition to the pole in 1909, was delivered in 1893 of the famed "snow baby," the most northerly born white child on record (now Mrs. Edward Stafford of Washington, D.C.).
Died. Major General (ret.) Charles Stewart Farnsworth, 93, first Chief of (U.S.) Infantry (1920-25), commander of the U.S. 37th Division in World War I, one of the developers and onetime head (1919-20) of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga.; in Corona, Calif.
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