Monday, Sep. 14, 1959
Born. To Minot Frazier ("Mickey") Jelke, 30, paunchy margarine heir who operated a $50-$500 call-girl service out of his Manhattan apartment, spent 21 months behind bars for procuring; and Sylvia Eder, onetime silver-haired model, who filed for divorce last July, a second son; in Hollywood, Fla. Name: Minot Frazier II. The Jelkes were reconciled by the birth and are now, according to Sylvia, "very happy."
Died. Kay Kendall, 33, bright, beautiful, promising screen comedienne (Genevieve, Les Girls), third wife (since 1957) of Actor Rex (My Fair Lady) Harrison; after a long battle, kept secret from their friends, against leukemia; in London.
Died. The Rev. Thomas Cunningham, 53, weather-beaten Jesuit priest for 24 years in arctic Alaska, who traveled on dogsled with chalice and folded altar to his far-flung parishioners, translated Catholic hymns into the Eskimo tongue; of a heart attack; in Point Barrow, Alaska. Father Tom was guide in 1958 to a party of 19 U.S. scientists trapped on a narrow ice island when it was dislodged by a storm, kept up morale until the whole party was rescued by plane.
Died. S. Ralph Lazrus, 61, founder (1919), with his brothers Benjamin and Oscar, of Benrus Watch Co., one of the largest U.S. importers of Swiss watches; in Manhattan.
Died. Maurice Duplessis, 69, Premier of Quebec; of a brain hemorrhage; in Schefferville, Que. (see HEMISPHERE).
Died. Harold Sines Vance, 69, board chairman of Studebaker (1935-53), who with the aid of Studebaker Sales Chief Paul Hoffman, pulled Studebaker out of receivership when it went under in the Depression; of pneumonia; in Washington. Vance served on the Atomic Energy Commission since 1955, where he advocated use of atomic energy in industry.
Died. Andrew Jackson May, 84, backwoods Democratic U.S. Congressman from Kentucky (1930-47), who rose to chairmanship of the powerful House Military Affairs Committee during World War II, was accused in a sensational trial of defrauding the government by accepting $53,000 in bribes from Munitions Makers Murray and Henry Garsson, served nine months and 13 days of his sentence, protested his innocence to the end, although some of the nation's top brass (including General Dwight Eisenhower) testified against him; in Prestonburg, Ky.
Died. Dr. Stenio Vincent, 93, golden-tongued, learned, onetime (1930-41) President of Haiti, who won popular backing by denouncing the 19-year U.S. Marine occupation, finally (1934) persuaded President Roosevelt to withdraw the Marines; in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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