Monday, Sep. 10, 1956
Born. To Staff Sergeant Matthew Charles McKeon, 31, Marine drill instructor whose sentence for leading an unscheduled night march on which six recruits were drowned is under review (TIME, Aug. 13), and Elizabeth Evelyn Wood (Betty) McKeon, 28: a second daughter, third child; in Beaufort, S.C. Name: Bridget Alice. Weight: 7 Ibs. 6 oz.
Married. Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt, 32, wan, wistful heiress (to $4,500,000), mother of two (by Maestro Leopold Stokowski), summer-stock actress, painter and poetess, whose 1955 volume, Love Poems, was dedicated "For S and the Search"; and the book's presumed dedicatee, Sidney Lumet, 32, tenement-raised onetime Broadway actor, horn-rimmed director of TV (You Are There), cinema (Twelve Angry Men) and stage (The Doctor's Dilemma); she for the third time, he for the second (his first: Cinemactress Rita Gam); in Manhattan.
Divorced. Elliott Harold Paul, 65, bearded, portly onetime expatriate author (The Last Time I Saw Paris); by his fifth wife and former secretary, Serena ("Nancy") McMahon Paul, 39; after five years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles.
Died. The Marquis Jason Boniface de Castellane, 53, quiet-living, inconspicuous son of Railroad Heiress Anna Gould (now the Duchesse de Talleyrand-Perigord) and her first husband, the late Marquis Boni de Castellane; in Salernes, France.
Died. Ghulam Mohammed, 61, frail ex-Governor General of Pakistan (1951-55), who, as its first Finance Minister, buttressed his country's shaky economy, allied it with the U.S., was named Governor General and became the strongman of Pakistan; of a heart attack; in Karachi, Pakistan.
Died. Douglas Maxwell Moffat, 74, pince-nezed U.S. Ambassador to Australia (since February), Manhattan lawyer, onetime (1953-55) member of the New York Transit Authority; of a heart attack; in Sydney, Australia.
Died. Jinzaburo Mazaki, 79, war-minded Japanese general who as chief superintendent of Japan's military training (1934-35) taught extreme nationalism to an intensely loyal coterie of young officers, gave Japan much of its impetus to war; in Tokyo.
Died. Dr. Anton Julius ("Ajax") Carlson, 81, peppery, renowned Swedish-born physiologist, leading authority on nutrition, old age and alcoholism (TIME, Feb. 10, 1941), longtime member (and head, 1916-40) of the University of Chicago's physiology department; in Chicago.
Died. Percy MacKaye, 81, white-maned "good grey poet of Gramercy Park," prolific author of masks, verse plays (The Mystery of Hamlet, King of Denmark), poetry, essays and biography; in Cornish, N.H.
Died. George Holden Tinkham, 85, bald, bushy-bearded, longtime (1915-43) fiercely independent Congressman from Massachusetts' Tenth Congressional District (Boston), active campaigner against votes for women and Prohibition (during which he kept one of the best cellars in Washington) who battled cheerfully and energetically against Roosevelt, child-labor reform, the British, labor unions, segregation, the Russians, the Methodists and Willkie Republicans; at Cramerton, N.C. A Mayflower descendant and isolationist Republican, George Tinkham's popularity in his normally Democratic district was so great that he never bothered to campaign, went big-game hunting instead, named his more repulsive trophies for F.D.R., Cordell Hull, other antagonists.
Died. Lloyd Tilghman Binford, 89, crotchety, Crump-backed chairman (1928-56) of the Memphis board of censors, who peered through his pince-nez, peevishly banned films because of: too much sex ("There's a little evil in every one of us"), Negroes in flattering roles, Ingrid Bergman or Charlie Chaplin (he did not approve of their private lives), who retired last January; after long illness; in Memphis.
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