Monday, Aug. 13, 1951

Divorced. By Character Actor Charles (Show Boat) Winninger, 67: oldtime Musicomedy Star Blanche Ring (No, No, Nannette) Winninger, 74, who won a California interlocutory decree from him last June (TIME, June 25); after 39 years of off & on marriage, no children; in Mexico.

Died. Carlo Margotti, 60, Archbishop of Gorizia (near Trieste), who for 17 years took part in the touchy Yugoslav-Italian border disputes; of a heart ailment; in Gorizia, Italy. When Tito's Partisans entered Gorizia in 1945, Margotti was captured and sentenced to death as "an enemy of the Slovene people." Later, his sentence was commuted to banishment from Yugoslav territory.

Died. E. (for Emanuel) Haldeman-Julius, 62, publisher of the famed, cut-rate (icy) "Little Blue Books"; by accidental drowning; in Girard, Kans. An outspoken socialist, agnostic and advocate of companionate marriage, in 32 years he sold more than 300 million copies of his books, ranging from Essence of the Bible to The Art of Kissing, made a small fortune, but failed to report $75,000 of it, was appealing a six-month jail sentence for income-tax evasion when he died.

Died. William Henry ("Wild Bill") Kiekhofer, 68, economist, author (An Outline of Economics), former head of the University of Wisconsin's economics department, whose wild shock of white hair earned him his nickname and whose famed lectures were traditionally greeted with a skyrocket cheer; after long illness; in Madison, Wis.

Died. Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, 69, Nazi diplomat, Hitler's last Ambassador to the Vatican; after a brain illness; in Lindau, Germany. In 1949 he was sentenced at a Niirnberg war crimes trial to seven years in prison (he served 18 months) principally for writing "no objection" on an order to deport 6,000 Jews from France to Poland.

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