Friday, May. 11, 1962
Married. Ingemar Johansson. 29, dimpled former world heavyweight boxing champion; and Birgit Lundgren. 25, his right-hand gal since 1954 and official fiancee since 1959; he for the second time, she for the first; in Stockholm.
Married. Tony Richardson, 33. gangling director of neorealist stage (Look Back in Anger) and screen (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning); and West End Actress Vanessa Redgrave. 25, Actor Sir Michael's willowy daughter; in London's Hammersmith Register Office.
Married. Bess Myerson. 37. TV mistress of ceremonies. Miss America of 1945; and Manhattan Lawyer Arnold Grant. 54. razor-sharp counsel for filmdom and onetime RKO board chairman; both for the second time; in Manhattan.
Died. Frank Wilson Braden. 76. cigar-puffing circus press agent, a walking, talking thesaurus of big-top ballyhoo to whom clowns were not clowns but rather "red-nosed, chalk-faced worshipers of the bluebird of happiness." who variously trumpeted the thrills of the Gentry. Sells-Floto, Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey, and Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers circuses for half a century; of pneumonia; in Providence. R.I.
Died. Harry Guy Bartholomew. 78. longtime editor of the London Daily Mirror, a stout Fleet Street lord who held British journalism "too niminy piminy" and so transformed a dowager's daily into the world's first picture tabloid and still largest daily newspaper (circ. 4,593,263) by a blend of strident headlines (on Dunkirk's evacuation: BLOODY MARVELLOUS). cartoon strips and pro-Labor politics; of heart disease; in Camberley, England.
Died. Walter Phelps Hall, 77. Dodge professor emeritus of history at Princeton, a heartily unorthodox (drenched by a cloudburst once, he taught in his underwear) modern history teacher who. despite perversely scheduling his classes for 7:40 a.m.. ran the most popular elective in the 39 years of his tenure; of a heart attack; in Austin, Tex.
Died. Major General Ralph Emerson Truman. 81, U.S.N.G. (ret.), testy first cousin of Harry, a onetime Spanish-American War corporal and World War I captain who, as an ardent week-end warrior, never forgave the Regular Army for relieving his command of the 35th Division, a Missouri-Kansas National Guard outfit he helped form, on the eve of World Wrar II; of a heart attack; in Kansas City, Mo.
Died. Helen Dortch Longstreet. 99, spry widow of Confederate General James Longstreet, a Georgia belle who at 80 became a World War II "Riveting Rosie"; of a heart attack; in Georgia.
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