Monday, Apr. 16, 1956

Born. To Petter Lindstrom, 49, associate professor of surgery at the University of Utah and first husband of Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman, and Agnes J. Rovanek Lindstrom, 28, Czech-born pediatrician: a son; in Salt Lake City. Name: Peter.

Married. Julius La Rosa, 26, TV and nightspot crooner, whose star burned bright after he was fired before millions of televiewers from the Arthur Godfrey and His Friends show in 1953 because he had lost his "humility"; and Rosemary ("Rory") Meyer, 25, brunette secretary to TV Crooner Perry Como ; in Francis Creek, Wis.

Married. Frank McMahon, 53, multimillionaire Canadian oil magnate, chairman of the board of Pacific Petroleums Ltd.; and Betty Betz, 36, fashion designer and onetime Hearst-syndicated columnist on teen-age doings; in Branford, Conn. (see BUSINESS).

Died. Benjamin Gardner, 59, since 1943 general secretary of Britain's second largest (more than 900,000 members) labor union, the Amalgamated Engineering Union; of complications following pneumonia ; in London.

Died. Manilal Mohandas Gandhi, 63, son of the late great Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi, and editor of the South African weekly, Indian Opinion, after long illness; in Phoenix, Natal. Taken to South Africa as a child, Manilal Gandhi adopted his father's methods for his lone passive resistance struggle against the government's apartheid policy, helped focus world attention on South Africa by his deliberate lawbreaking, jail terms and fasts.

Died. Frank Jay Gould, 78, youngest son of the late buccaneering railroad tycoon, Jay (Black Friday) Gould, who boosted the $10 million inherited from his father to a reported $100 million; at his villa, Soleil d'Or; in Juan-les-Pins, France. Francophile Gould moved to France in 1913 for a "temporary residence" that lasted for 43 years, made a fortune in race horses and real estate, turned the quiet backwater of Juan-les-Pins into a famed international spa.

Died. Mary Louise, 80, Dowager Marchioness of Queensberry, daughter of a Cardiff fishmonger, who twice scandalized English society: in 1918 when she married the tenth Marquess of Queensberry and in 1920 when, after the death of her husband, she went to work in the fish shop that she inherited on St. Mary's, Street, Cardiff, Wales; in Cardiff.

Died. Tsunego Baba, 80, longtime champion of a free Japanese press as president (1945-51) of the nation's third largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun (circ. 2,133,000), of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Tokyo.

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