Monday, Feb. 24, 1958

Born. To Dave Garroway, 44, NBC's early-rising telecaster (Today), and Pamela Wilde Garroway, 30, brunette onetime TV production coordinator: a son, their first child, his second, her second; in Manhattan. Name: David Cunningham VIII. Weight: 5 Ibs. 5 oz.

Married. Michael Wilding, 45, British actor of stage (Nude with Violin) and screen (The Glass Slipper); and Susan Nell, 42, London interior decorator; he for the third time, she for the fourth; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Died. Helen Twelvetrees (Payne), fiftyish, oldtime Hollywood leading lady (to such stars as John Barrymore, Robert Taylor, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy), who played in State's Attorney, Disgraced, The Ghost Talks; by her own hand (an overdose of barbiturates); at Olmsted Air Force Base, near Harrisburg, Pa.

Died. Philip Lippincott Goodwin, 72, co-designer (with Edward Stone) and trustee of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art; in Tucson, Ariz.

Died. Dame Christabel Pankhurst, 77, daughter of Pioneer Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, and herself a jail-hopping crusader for women's rights who switched her militancy in the '20s to evangelism (heralding the Second Coming of Christ), was named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by George V in 1936; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Died. Dr. Ernest Jones, 79, English disciple, friend, collaborator and biographer of Sigmund Freud; in London. Credited with awakening the English-speaking world to Freudian theories, Jones practiced psychoanalysis for 52 years, wrote the three-volume authoritative The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953; Sept. 19, 1955; Oct. 14, 1957).

Died. Sir Charles Mendl, 86, Britain's longtime (1926-40) Paris diplomatic press attache who was known as a mystery-cloaked, behind-the-scenes diplomat; after long illness; in Paris. After the death of his U.S.-born hostess-interior decorator wife, Elsie de Wolfe Mendl, who lorded it over the international smart set for decades by splashing lavish parties in Paris, Beverly Hills and Versailles, he married (at 79) a 37-year-old violinist, who died a year ago.

Died. Georges Rouault, 86, one of the world's topnotch modern painters; of uremia; in Paris (see ART).

Died. Marcel Cachin, 88, hoary old man of the French Communist Party, director (since 1918) of its militant daily L'Humanite, dean (by age) of the French National Assembly; after long illness; in Paris.

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