Monday, Jan. 30, 1956
Married. Mickey ("The Toy Bulldog") Walker, 54, oldtime welterweight (1922-26) and middleweight (1926-31) world boxing champion turned artist and Manhattan restaurateur; and Martha Gallagher, 35; he for the seventh time, she for the second; in Elizabeth, NJ.
Died. Makbule Atadan, 66, sister and last of the immediate family of the late Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ("Father of the Turks"); of cancer; at Gulhane Military Academy of Medicine; in Ankara.
Died. Charles W. Dingle, 68, longtime character actor of stage (The Little Foxes) and screen (State of the Union); of cancer; in Worcester, Mass.
Died. Johnny Layton, 68, famed billiards champion of the '20s and '30s, seven-time winner (1920-22, 1928-30, 1934) of the world three-cushion title, winner (in 1916) of the world pocket-billiards title; of a heart ailment; at a rooming house in St. Louis.
Died. Rudolf S. Hecht, 70, financier, board chairman of the Mississippi Shipping Co. and of New Orleans' famed foreign-trade center, International House; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. A lifelong advocate of U.S.-Latin American relations, he engineered last year's Inter-American Investment Conference, sponsored by the city of New Orleans and TIME Inc., to persuade U.S. businessmen to invest in Latin American markets.
Died. Louis Oppenheimer, 85, director of London's Diamond Corp., which controls 90% of the world's diamond production; in Gerrard's Cross, England. One of five brothers who built the worldwide Oppenheimer holdings (i.e., the Anglo-American Corp., with more than 200 subsidiaries in gold, diamonds, copper and other enterprises, worth about $3 billion), Louis Oppenheimer headed the marketing apparatus of the family's diamond interests, while his brother Sir Ernest ("The King of Diamonds") became director of the corporation in Johannesburg.
Died. Frederick G. Zinsser, 87, organizer, president (1897-1925) and chairman of the board (1925-52) of Zinsser & Co., chemical manufacturing firm; in Hastings on Hudson, N.Y. Among his noted relatives : his daughters, Ellen, wife of former U.S. High Commissioner for Germany John J. McCloy, and Peggy, wife of former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Lewis Douglas; his brother, the late Bacteriologist-Author Hans (Rats, Lice and History) Zinsser.
Died. Charles J. Hardy, 89, president (1933-44) and board chairman (1944-51) of American Car & Foundry Co. (now ACF Industries. Inc., with 16,500 employees in 20 plants), the second largest U.S. railroad-car maker; in Manhattan.
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