Monday, Jan. 06, 1958

Born. To Ann Blyth, 29, cinemactress (The Helen Morgan Story), and Dr. James McNulty, 39, Los Angeles obstetrician, brother of Singer Dennis Day: a third child, second daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Kathleen Mary. Weight: 6 Ibs. 15 oz.

Married. Natalie Wood (real name: Natasha Gurdin). 19 pert, petite cineminx (Kings Go Forth) known as "the teen-ager"; and brown-haired Cinemale (the "bobby-soxer's delight") Robert (Prince Valiant) Wagner, 27; in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Married. Mattiwilda Dobbs, 32, coloratura soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, second Negro woman (the first Marian Anderson) to sing at the Met; and Bengt Janzon, 44, public-relations director of the Royal Opera, Stockholm; both for the second time; in Manhattan.

Married. Alan Jay Lerner, 39, Broadway librettist (My Fair Lady, Brigadoon) ; and Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo, Parisian lawyer; he for the third time, she for the second; in Manhattan.

Married. Eleanor Steber, 41, clarion-voiced dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Opera; and Major Gordon Guelberth Andrews, 39, faculty member at the U.S. Army's Information School, Fort Slocum, N.Y.; both for the second time; at Fort Slocum.

Married. Colonel John Paul Stapp, 47, the U.S. Air Force's rocket-sledding space surgeon, now head of the Air Force's "Man in Space" committee; and Lillian Lanese, 33, El Paso ballet teacher; both for the first time; in El Paso.

Died. Andrew Geer, 52, brawny military novelist and historian (The New Breed), who joined the British army in World War II, served with Montgomery's Desert Rats in North Africa, later, as a U.S. Marine captain, saw action at Saipan and Iwo Jima, as a major commanded a battalion of the 1st Marine Division in Korea, authored the bestselling (2,000,000 copies) war novel The Sea Chase; of cancer; in San Rafael, Calif.

Died. Captain George Black ("Dod") Orsborne, 54, bearded British soldier of fortune; of a heart attack; in Belle-Isle, France. Sea Dog Orsborne joined the Royal Navy at 14, fought in two world wars, in 1936 stole a 30-ton trawler, the Girl Pat, and with crew of three sailed 5,000 miles down the African coast and across the Atlantic, for his feat earned an 18-month jail sentence. Tracing Charles Darwin's 19th century world voyage in the Beagle, Orsborne in 1951 sailed the ketch Argosy from England, ended his trip abruptly in Trinidad when arrested for arms smuggling. His boast: "I did things no other man has done and stayed alive."

Died. Norma Talmadge, 60, velvet-eyed star of the silent screen, best-known of three moviemaking sisters (the others: Constance, Natalie); of pneumonia; in Las Vegas. A two-reeler actress at 14, Siren Talmadge vamped her way to high-salaried high living (up to $7,500 a week) in a low-tax era, became one of Hollywood's top-rated movie queens in the '20s under the shrewd guidance of first husband Joseph M. Schenk (through such films as Smilin' Through, Camille), retired in 1930 with wealth intact after an unsuccessful try at the talkies (and a Mexican divorce from Schenk), stormily wed (in 1934) and divorced Comic George Jessel, later, a victim of arthritis, lived in Nevada seclusion with Dr. Carvel James, her husband since 1946.

Died. Earl J. (for nothing) Jones (real name: Ralph Alonzo Stilwell), 64, fracasprone newspaper owner (Massillon, Ohio Independent) and coal-mine tycoon; of leukemia; in Zanesville, Ohio. After a bankruptcy-ridden career as a cattle dealer and rubber salesman, crusty, free-wheeling Jones drove to Zanesville in 1933 in a pickup truck, started hauling coal, soon parlayed an investment in a local mine into $10 million and (in 1944-45) the nation's largest mechanized mining operation. Irritated at stories in the Zanesville papers (Times Recorder, Signal), Jones started his own News, went from first brick to first edition in 59 days (TIME, Oct. 30, 1939), finally sold it to the opposition in 1954.

Died. Otto Nuschke, 74, bumbling Deputy Premier (since 1949) of East Germany, nominal leader of the country's Red-following Christian Democratic Union (no kin to Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats), sometime mediator between church and Communist state; of a heart attack; in East Berlin.

Died. Frederick Law Olmstead, 87, famed landscape architect, son and namesake of the co-designer of New York's Central Park, who developed (in 1902) a face-lift plan for Washington, D.C., helped establish the Lincoln Memorial, devised (at Harvard in 1901) the first landscape-architecture courses taught at a U.S. university, planned park systems in Boston and Baltimore; in Malibu, Calif.

Died. Charles Pathe, 94 (less one day), canny oldtime French cinemagnate, originator of the newsreel, founder, with brother Emile and two others, of one of Europe's largest movie firms; in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Starting with two early Edison "kinetoscopes," Pathe produced film shorts at the turn of the century, by World War I had made Pathe Freres' trademark (the crowing rooster) known around the world, scored his biggest U.S. hit with Pearl White's serial The Perils of Pauline, once wrote proudly: "I didn't invent the cinema, but I industrialized it."

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