Monday, May. 18, 1953
Born. To Patrice Munsel, 28, Metropolitan Opera soprano, and Robert Charles Carroll Schuler, 32, candy heir and TV director: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Heidi Ann. Weight: 7 Ibs. 7 oz.
Married. Armi Kuusela, 18, Finland's blonde, blue-eyed winner of last year's "Miss Universe" contest; and Virgilio Hilario, 25, well-to-do Filipino real-estate heir; in Tokyo.
Married. Robert Donat, 48, versatile English actor of stage (Murder in the Cathedral) & screen (Goodbye, Mr. Chips): and Renee Asherson, 37, cinemactress (Henry V); he for the second time, she for the first; in a surprise ceremony, outside London.
Died. Albert Lundy Baker, 55, chairman of the board of Pittsburgh's Vitro Manufacturing Co. and a wartime leader in the Manhattan Project; of a heart attack; in Summit, N.J. In 1943-45, heading a group of 2,000 top U.S. scientists and engineers, he directed the secret planning and construction of Oak Ridge's $500,000,000 Uranium 235 separating plant, completed it five precious weeks ahead of schedule.
Died. Leo Pasvolsky, 59, Russian-born architect of the United Nations charter and economics expert at Brookings Institution; after a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A late '30s protege of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Economist Pasvolsky served as Hull's principal behind-the-scenes strategist at the Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco conferences, broke a Big Five deadlock at San Francisco by "reinterpreting" the veto question and rewriting the U.N. charter.
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