Monday, Nov. 26, 1956
Married. Joseph Wilbur (Joe) Adcock, 29, lofty (6 ft. 4 in.), fence-busting first baseman for the Milwaukee Braves; and pretty, brunette Secretary Joan James, 23; in Dodgeville. Wis.
Died. Vice Admiral Ralph Andrew Ofstie, 59, bemedaled onetime hot Navy pilot (he set three speed records for seaplanes in a 1924 meet), later commander of naval forces in the Far East (1951-52), who served with the Joint Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Group for the 1946 Bikini tests, in 1949 declared that strategic atomic bombing was little more than "random mass slaughter," militarily unsound and morally questionable; after long illness; in Bethesda, Md.
Died. Princess Elizabeth of Rumania, 62, beauteous, dark-haired sister of the late King Carol II of Rumania, and onetime (1922-35) Queen of Greece; of a heart ailment, a month after she adopted the Marquis Marc de Savrat, her handsome, 33-year-old French equerry, gave him her family name of Hohenzollern; in Cannes, France. Elizabeth married the Greek Crown Prince in 1921, shared the throne with him when he became King George II of Greece (September 1922), fled to Rumania in exile when the late George was ousted after 15 months, rocked the Balkans by charging unfaithfulness and desertion, pouting, "I never wanted to be a queen," when she divorced him in 1935.
Died. Dr. Juan Negrin, 64, round-faced socialist and University of Madrid physiologist, who became Loyalist Spain's last premier (May, 1937) ten months after the Spanish Civil War broke out, for two years led the crumbling republic's fight against Franco's Axis-backed forces; of a heart attack; in Paris. Left-winger Negrin got aid from Russia, later was charged by onetime Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto with having smuggled $566 million in Loyalist bullion to Russia while finance minister in 1936.
Died. Clifford Mooers, 67, horse breeder and onetime Alaska gold prospector, dirt-track auto racer, World War I flyer, lawyer and oil wildcatter, who settled down to horse racing after his wells started to gush, hit the big time fast (1949) when his Old Rockport went to post at 33 to 1, copped the $141,800 Santa Anita Derby; between planes at New York's LaGuardia Field, en route from Kentucky to Pawtucket. R.I., to see one of his horses at Narragansett Park.
Died. Floyd Buckley, 82, Broadway's oldest performing actor (he played the mustached pappy of Mountain Boy Will Stockdale in No Time for Sergeants), who started trouping in 1899 witn Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; of an aortic aneurism suffered after his 445th straight performance in Sergeants; in New York City.
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