Monday, Mar. 23, 1959
Born. To Nina ("Honey Bear") Warren Brien, 25, the Chief Justice's youngest daughter, who recovered from a severe polio attack eight years ago, and Stuart Brien, M.D., 36, Beverly Hills obstetrician and gynecologist: their second child, first daughter, Earl Warren's eighth grandchild; in Hollywood. Name: Heather. Weight: 6 Ibs. 11 oz.
Born. To Ernest Frederick ("Fritz") Hollings, 37, industry-minded Governor of South Carolina, spokesman for the "New South," and Martha Patricia Salley Hollings, 35: their sixth child, fourth son (two sons have died); in Charleston, S.C. Name: Ernest Frederick III. Weight: 7 lbs. 13 oz.
Divorced. Otto Preminger, 52, Vienna-born Hollywood producer-director (Saint Joan, The Moon Is Blue): by Mary Gardner Preminger, 40, his second wife, who punctuated a crossfire of adultery charges with the information that Preminger's temper is so hot that he sometimes gets down on all fours and beats his head on the floor; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Hollywood.
Died. Lisa Larsen, 34, world-roving LIFE photographer, 1958's "Magazine Photographer of the Year" for her report on Outer Mongolia, favorite of statesmen of all types (Alben Barkley called her Mona Lisa; Nikita Khrushchev once gave her a bouquet of pink, white and red peonies); of cancer; in Manhattan.
Died. Arthur Burton Goetze, 57, president of the Western Electric Co., who started with Western Electric in Chicago as a 16-year-old draftsman; of a heart attack; in the Western Electric's offices in Manhattan.
Died. Clare Lorraine Manville, 64, asbestos heiress, whose four divorces were no match for the ten marriages of her brother Tommy; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas, Nev.
Died. Russell Barclay Kingman, 74, onetime (1951-52) president of the United States Lawn Tennis Association (he cracked down on creeping lace pantyism among female contenders), only American president (1949 and 1954) of the International Lawn Tennis Federation; of a heart ailment; in Orange, N.J.
Died. Duncan Hines, 78, roadside gourmet, compiler of Adventures in Good Eating (listing 3,400 recommended restaurants), Lodging For a Night (4,000 hostelries), and Adventures in Good Cooking, who traveled over 2,000,000 miles tasting food, charged nothing for a listing in his books, $10-$20 a year for rental of a Duncan Hines sign; of cancer; in Bowling Green, Ky. In 1956, Duncan Hines's assorted gastronomic enterprises became a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble.
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