Friday, Nov. 24, 1961
Married. Majorie Steele Hartford, 31, erstwhile cigarette girl who collected a lump sum of $385,000 upon her divorce from A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford last February, but by her remarriage forfeits $60,000 annual alimony; and Dudley Sutton, 28, curly-locked British cinemactor; she for the second time, he for the first; in London.
Divorced. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, 68, eminent British actor turned situation comedian on U.S. TV (Mrs. G. Goes to College); by Actress Mary Scott, 39, his second wife, who accused him of fobbing her off with such passe dialogue as "Marriage is for the bourgeoisie"; after eleven years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif.
Died. Robert Allen Futterman, 33, steely-minded dynamo of the real estate industry who in seven years of 100-hour work weeks rose from a $300-a-month Manhattan rent collector to the presidency of his own corporation, boasting $100 million assets in 27 cities; from choking on a piece of roast beef; in Manhattan.
Died. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, 64, U.S. Ambassador to Spain, charming, perspicacious scion of one of Philadelphia's richest Republican clans, an early F.D.R. backer who at 38 left behind his playboy ways, a dozen corporate directorships and 22 club memberships for a career as a military and diplomatic troubleshooter that won friends and advantage for the U.S. in many nations; of a heart attack following the onset of lung cancer; at Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital. After stints as U.S. envoy to Norway and Poland, athletic, impeccably tailored Tony Biddle served brilliantly during the early days of World War II as simultaneous ambassador to seven Allied governments in exile, subsequently switched over to a staff job at Dwight Eisenhower's SHAEF and stayed on in the Army till his 1955 retirement as a major general, returned to diplomacy only last March at the behest of President Kennedy.
Died. Louis Charles Rabaut, 74, pro-labor Democratic Congressman from Michigan's 14th District (Greater Detroit), a stanch Roman Catholic whose shining achievement in 13 pale terms in the House was the 1954 legislation inserting the words "under God" into the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance; of a heart attack; in Hamtramck, Mich.
Died. Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn, 79, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for a record 49 years. Speaker for an unmatched 17 (more than twice as long as his nearest competitor, Henry Clay); of cancer; in Bonham, Texas (see THE NATION).
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