Monday, Jul. 14, 1958
Born. To Dovima (real name: Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba), 30, lissome (5 ft. 8 in., 115 Ibs.) Manhattan high-fashion model ($75 an hour), and Immigration Department Official Alan Murray, 31: their first child, a girl; in Manhattan. Name: Alison. Weight: 5 Ibs. 13 oz.
Born. To Charles Van Doren, 32, Columbia University English instructor, first Croesus (TIME, Feb. 11, 1957) of TV's gilt quiz show Twenty One, and Geraldine Ann Bernstein Van Doren, 24: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Elizabeth. Weight: 6 Ibs. 14 1/2oz.
Married. Viviana Munoz Mendoza, 18, daughter of Puerto Rico's Governor Luis Munoz Marin (TIME, June 23) ; and Louis Timm Diaz, 24, who, with his bride, is a student at the University of Puerto Rico; in San Juan.
Married. Lester ("The Debutantes' Delight") Lanin, fiftyish, wiry, jumpy bandleader whose ubiquitous multicelled society orchestra commands fees up to $15,000, has been known to play for as many as 25 widely scattered parties in a single night; and Marilyn Weiss, 22, his secretary; both for the first time; in York, S.C.
Died. Bohumil Lausman, 55, chairman of Czechoslovakia's Social Democratic Party before the Communist coup of 1948, man of many-phased, sincere but confused cold-war loyalties; in Prague. In 1946 Lausman liked the Russians; in 1947 he denounced them, but became Deputy Premier of Czechoslovakia when the Reds assumed control the next year. In 1950 he fled to the West, soon turned up in Yugoslavia, disappeared (perhaps by kidnaping) in 1953 from a pension in Austria, reappeared in Prague with a "confession" of the "spiritual suffering" he had undergone in Western Europe.
Died. Rudolph von Laban, 78, Hungarian-born choreographer, teacher and theorist of the dance, deviser of Labanotation, the first widely accepted, effective method of recording dance movements on paper; in London.
Died. The Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (nee Grace Elvina Hinds of Decatur, Ala.), 80, daughter of a onetime U.S. Minister to Brazil, second wife of the late Marquess Curzon, who was British Viceroy and Governor General of India (1898-1905) and Foreign Secretary (1919-24); near Dover, England. First female recipient of the Grand Cross of the British Empire (conferred on her in 1922 for war work), Lady Curzon was a significant arc in titled circles, an owner of race horses whose brown and pink colors were once familiar at Ascot and Newmarket, and a friend of Lady Randolph Churchill (nee Jennie Jerome of Brooklyn), mother of Sir Winston.
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