Monday, Jul. 21, 1958
Born. To Diana Lynn (real name: Dolores Loehr), 31, TV and cinemactress, and Mortimer Hall, 34, son of New York Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff and president of Los Angeles radio station KLAC: their first child, a son (he has another son by Cinemactress Ruth Roman); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Matthew Wells. Weight: 7 Ibs. 1 oz.
Died. Robert Earl Hughes. 32. plausibly billed as the heaviest man in medical history (6 ft.. 1.041 Ibs.), son of an Illinois farmer, traveling attraction on the carny circuit, probable victim of an incurable disfunction of the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus; of uremia; in Bremen, Ind. With a maximum circumference of 10 ft.. 2 in.. Hughes had trouble getting around, lived in a converted semitrailer truck, which nurses climbed into by ladder to attend his final illness.
Died. Vice Admiral James Henry Flatley. U.S.N.. 52, aerial-gunnery expert and World War II ace in the Pacific, skipper of Fighter Squadron No. 10, who won the Navy Cross in the Battle of the Coral Sea, was later a key figure with Navy's postwar air-training program; of cancer; in Bethesda. Md.
Died. Edward Pearson Warner. 63. M.I.T.-trained aeronautical engineer, internationally famed air-age sage, longtime ( 1945-57 ) president of the council of the International Civil Aviation Organization, onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, editor of Aviation (1929-35), vice chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board; of a heart attack; in Duxbury. Mass.
Died. Evelyn Varden, 65, character actress whose career began in childhood, ended in January when she left the company of the London hit comedy Roar Like A Dove; first Mrs. Gibbs in Thornton Wilder's Our Town (other stage credits: Russet Mantle, Candle in the Wind), cinemactress (The Bad Seed, Cheaper By The Dozen), radio serialist, familiar player on live dramatic TV; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Archbishop Michael. 66, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America, spiritual leader of more than 1,000,000 people of Greek descent in the Western Hemisphere; after an intestinal operation; in Manhattan.
Died. Maurice Rentner, 69, "The King" of Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, Polish-born leader of U.S. fashion, who fought design piracy in and out of the garment district, primed such innovations as shirtwaist dresses and dressmaker suits, thought U.S. women the world's best dressed, "despite the fact that once every so often I see a woman in a dress I've struggled over, carrying herself like a hod carrier"; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan.
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