Monday, Feb. 17, 1958
Married. Lyle (Skitch) Henderson, 40, goateed TV-radio bandleader (on the Steve Allen Show); and German-born Fashion Model Ruth Michaels, 28; both for the second time (his first: Faye Emerson); in Greenwich, Conn.
Died. Betty MacDonald, 49, hen-raising, hen-hating ranchwife-authoress of the nonfiction bestseller (1945) The Egg and I (later adapted for the movies and TV), whose success egged her on to write others (The Plague and I, Onions in the Stew); of cancer; in Seattle.
Died. Emanuel ("Manie") Sacks, 54, vice president (1950) of RCA and (since 1953) of NBC, longtime friend and agent to leading show-business stars (TIME, Dec. 17, 1956); of leukemia; in Philadelphia.
Died. Imre Horvath, 57, Hungary's Foreign Minister, longtime (since 1918) Communist, onetime gun-toting activist (in Bela Kun's post-World War I Red rebellion) and Minister to the U.S. (1949-51), who saw his own son Imre and his nephew Alexander turn freedom fighters in the 1956 revolt, then flee to Austria; after a gallstone operation; in Budapest.
Died. Lew Brown (real name: Louis Brownstein), 64, Russian-born songwriter (with Buddy De Sylva and Ray Henderson) of top hits (Button Up Your Overcoat, The Best Things in Life Are Free)', of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Charles Langbridge Morgan, 64, English author of mystic-tinged novels (The Fountain, Sparkenbroke) and plays (The River Line, The Burning Glass), essayist (Liberties of the Mind) and longtime London Times drama critic (1926-39); of a bronchial ailment; in London.
Died. Prince Filippo Andrea Doria-Pamphilj-Landi, 71, last male descendant of the main branch of the famed Doria family, which traces its history to 12th century Genoa, owner (in Rome's Palazzo Doria) of one of the world's most celebrated private galleries (included: Velasquez' portrait of an earlier Pamphilj, Pope Innocent X); of arteriosclerosis; in Rome. A bitter antiFascist, who condemned Mussolini's war on Ethiopia, he suffered 15 years of mistreatment by Fascists, became wartime "underground governor" of Rome and, appointed by the Allies, the city's first postwar mayor.
Died. H. M. (for Henry Major) Tomlinson, 84, self-taught, world-renowned English novelist (Gallions Reach), Conrad-like chronicler of his own seafaring adventures (The Sea and the Jungle) and essayist (A Mingled Yarn), onetime (World War I) correspondent (for the London Daily News) and (1917-23) literary editor (of the Nation and Athenaeum) ; in London.
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