Monday, Feb. 02, 1959
Born. To Debbie Montgomery Minar-dos Power, 27, widow of moviedom's late Tyrone Power: a son (Power had two daughters by his marriage to Actress Linda Christian); in Hollywood. Weight: 5 Ibs. 12 oz. Name: Tyrone William Power.
Married. Stan Freberg, 32, owl-faced tin-pan alley satirist-parodist (St. George and the Dragonet, The Quest for Bridey Hammerschlaugen, Green Chri$tma$); and Donna Jean Andreson, 28, his former secretary; he for the first time, she for the third; in Pasadena, Calif.
Died. Mike Hawthorn, 29, recently retired British auto racer, winner of the 1958 world championship; in an ordinary highway smashup; near Guildford, England (see SPORT).
Died. Alfalfa (real name: Carl Switzer), 32, freckled, part-in-the-middle child actor of Our Gang comedies, whose early fame faded into an adulthood spent on odd jobs and bit acting; of a gunshot wound in a boozy brawl over a $50 debt; in Van Nuys, Calif.
Died. Praskovya Nikitichna ("Pasha") Angelina, 47, anvil-jawed woman of the Ukraine, who learned to drive a tractor in the '20s, soon symbolized the new field-working lady in Red, organized the U.S.S.R.'s first women's tractor brigade, plowed her way into the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party, won a Stalin Prize in 1946, served for many years as a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. When the Soviet government announced Pasha Angelina's death, a special honor appeared on her obituary: the signature of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev.
Died. J. Ernest Wilkins,* 64, Chicago lawyer, member of the Commission on Civil Rights, Assistant Secretary of Labor from 1954 until last November, U.S. representative on the governing body of the International Labor Organization (1954-57), first Negro president of the Judicial Council of the Methodist Church (the Methodist "supreme court"); of a heart attack; in Washington.
Died. Cecil Blount DeMille, 77, motion picture collossicist; of a heart ailment; at his home on DeMille Drive, Hollywood (see SHOW BUSINESS).
Died. Major Henry Frank Schroeder, U.S.A. (ret.), 84, bugler who signaled the charge of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders at San Juan Hill in 1898, one of the oldest living winners of the Medal of Honor, won for heroism during the Philippine Insurrection (1899-1901); in Long Beach, Calif.
* No kin to Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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