Monday, Feb. 29, 1960
Born. To Raul Castro, 28, sideburned brother of Cuba's Dictator Fidel and boss of Cuba's armed forces, and Vilma Espin de Castro, 29, a guerilla fighter in Santiago during the civil war: their first child; in Havana. Name: Deborah (the nom de guerre of Vilma). Weight: 7 lbs.
Born. To Ogden Rogers Reid, 34, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, onetime (1955-58) publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, and Mary Louise Stewart Reid, 34; their fourth child, first daughter; in Tel Aviv, Israel. Name: Elizabeth. Weight: 7 lbs. 3 oz.
Married. Anne Baxter, 36, cinemactress (The Ten Commandments); and Randolph Gait, 30, cattle rancher; she for the second time (No. 1: Cinemactor John Hodiak), he for the first; in Honolulu.
Died. Hans Christian Hansen, 53, Premier of Denmark since 1955, a moderate socialist who as Finance Minister (1945, 1947-50) restored Denmark's currency and moved the country to a speedy postwar recovery, always resolutely followed a middle way: he rebuffed Russian threats aimed at dislodging Denmark from the West, but he also refused to allow U.S. bases in Denmark (though he fervidly promoted the Western alliance, helped lead his nation triumphantly into NATO); of cancer; in Copenhagen.
Died. Marcel Schein, 57, one of the world's top cosmic-ray experts, who has sent balloons equipped with photographic plates 100,000 ft. up to record collision of the highest energies known to man; of a heart attack suffered while ice skating; in Chicago.
Died. Countess Mountbatten of Burma (nee the Hon. Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley), 58, aristocratic English beauty who traded her famous gowns for nursing garb at the outbreak of World War II and has worked for the Red Cross ever since, as the last Vicereine of India won the affection of India's impatient nationalists; in her sleep; in Jesselton, North Borneo.
Died. Adone Zoli, 72, leading Christian Democrat and onetime (1957-58) Premier of Italy, sponsor of hard-money policies as Minister of the Budget (1956-58); in Rome.
Died. Sir Leonard Woolley, 79, British archaeologist whose excavations uncovered important portions of ancient Middle East civilizations, including the city of Ur in Iraq, from which Abraham started out to found the Hebrew nation; in London.
Died. Sir Herbert Grierson, 94, English literary scholar whose pithy analyses (Metaphysical Poets, Donne to Butler) revived the popularity of Donne, Herbert and the other metaphysical poets; in Cambridge, England.
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