Monday, Jul. 21, 1952
Married. Rhonda Fleming, 28, auburn-haired cinemactress (The Great Lover); and Dr. Lewis V. Morrill Jr., 36, Beverly Hills surgeon; she for the second time, he for the third; in Kanab, Utah.
Married. Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville, 58, asbestosexed playboy; and platinum blonde Anita Frances Roddy-Eden, 29, dancer and songwriter; in New Rochelle, N.Y. He was her first; she was his ninth. For a few tense seconds, Manville mistook his fiancee's twin sister and matron of honor, Mrs. Juanita Roddy-Eden Patifio, for the bride, but recovered quickly, lit a cigarette and got married (by the mayor of New Rochelle) to the right girl.
Married. Marc Chagall, 63, Russian-born expressionist painter, and Mme. Valentine Brodski, fortyish, who looks (said Chagall's daughter) as though "she stepped out of one of father's paintings"; both for the second time; in Clairefontaine, France.
Died. Hubert B. ("Dutch") Leonard,* 60, southpaw pitcher who fireballed his way to fame in the American League (1913-25), later made a fortune as a California grape-grower; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Fresno. In 1914, on the pitching staff of the Boston Red Sox (which also included Babe Ruth), he had his best season, winning 19 games and losing five, for an average of 1.01earned runs a game. After helping Boston to world championships in 1915 and 1916, he quit baseball in 1925, retired to his Fresno ranch, where he could sit in any room of a specially wired house and enjoy concerts from a collection of more than 500,000 records.
Died. Eliezer Kaplan, 61, Deputy Prime Minister (since last month) of Israel, former Finance Minister, and one of the chief architects of the hand-to-mouth Israeli economic policy; of a heart attack during a vacation trip; in Genoa. Russian-born, he migrated to Palestine in 1923, after playing an active part in Zionist affairs in Russia and Czechoslovakia. In 1937 he negotiated the first international loan made to Zionism--a -L-2,000,000 grant from Lloyds Bank of London.
Died. Mrs. Mildred Strode Vandegrift, 66, wife of General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, 65, hero of Guadalcanal, onetime (1944-47) commandant of the Marine Corps; after long illness; in Lynchburg, Va.
Died. Dr. Walter Van Dyke Bingham, 71, the Army's chief psychologist (1940-47), who helped devise the battery of psychological tests and interviewing procedures used to screen World War II draftees, of a heart attack; in Washington.
*No kin to Pitcher Emil ("Dutch") Leonard of the 1952 Cubs.
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