Monday, Aug. 22, 1960
Marriage Revealed. Jack Dempsey, 65. former world's heavyweight boxing champion, now a restaurateur and business promoter; and Deanna Pietelli. 38, a Manhattan jewelry store operator; he for the fourth time, she for the second. The place: "In the East" 18 months ago, according to Dempsey, who explained, "It hasn't been any secret. My wife just didn't want any publicity, that's all."
Divorced. By Jean Simmons, 31, British-born cinemactress recently in Elmer Gantry: Stewart Granger, 47, British-born cinemactor; after almost ten years of marriage, one child; in Nogales, Ariz.
Died. Sara Delano ("Sally") Roosevelt, 13, daughter of F.D.R.'s only Republican son, Manhattan Investment Broker John; of an intracranial hemorrhage, after a horseback spill one day and a fall while hiking the next day at a girls' camp; near Utica, N.Y.
Died. Salvatore Ferragamo, 62, style-setting Italian shoemaker for women and the originator of the wedge heel, platform sole and nylon "invisible shoe," an apprentice cobbler at the age of 9, who eventually came to employ 600 craftsmen in three factories (including a $175,000, 13th century palace in Florence) hand-producing 60,000 pairs of shoes annually for a well-heeled clientele including Queen Elizabeth II and Greta Garbo; of a heart attack; in Fiumetto, Italy.
Died. Laurence Frederick Whittemore, 66, homespun New England booster and industrialist, a onetime Boston & Maine carshop laborer who became president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 1946 to 1948, president of the New Haven Railroad for the next 15 months before taking over Brown Co., a New Hampshire paper producer whose profits he quadrupled to $4,400,000 within three years; of cancer; at Concord, N.H., six miles from his native Pembroke, which his ancestors founded 200 years ago and which he had served as moderator for 25 years.
Died. Major General (ret.) Norman Thomas Kirk, 72, Surgeon General of the Army from 1943 to 1947, a skilled orthopedist and administrator, whose 700,000 man World War II Medical Corps helped double the survival rate of battle casualties over World War I; following abdominal surgery; in Washington.
Died. Oswald Veblen, 80, leading U.S. geometrician and nephew of Economist Thorstein Veblen, member of the Princeton University faculty from 1905 until 1932, when he joined the new Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he was instrumental in selecting the famed research center's original mathematics staff, which included Albert Einstein and John von Neumann; of a heart attack; in Brooklin, Me.
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