Monday, Aug. 03, 1953
Married. Isabel Bigley, 25, Broadway musicomedy star (Me and Juliet, Guys and Dolls); and Lawrence Barnett, 39, a vice president of Music Corp. of America, top U.S. musical talent agency; he for the second time, she for the first; in Norwalk, Conn.
Married. Peter Lorre, 49, Hungarian-born cinemenace (M, Mysterious Mr. Moto); and Annemarie Brenning Stoldt, thirtyish, daughter of a Hamburg fish wholesaler; he for the third time, she for the second; in Hamburg, Germany.
Married. John Boynton Priestley, 58, popular novelist (The Good Companions, Festival) and playwright (Home Is Tomorrow) ; and Author-Archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes, 42 (A Land), lately his playwriting collaborator; he for the third time, she for the second; in London.
Divorced. William Orville Douglas, 54, New-Dealing, Roosevelt-appointed (1939) U.S. Supreme Court Justice and globetrotting, mountain-climbing author (North from Malaya); by Mildred Riddle Douglas, 50, who charged that her husband had left her "abandoned and alone while engaged in his work and in travels to remote places"; after 30 years of marriage, two children; in Baker, Ore.
Died. Jan Struther, 52, British author (.4 Pocketful of Pebbles) best known in the U.S. for Mrs. Miniver (1939), the saga of British suburbia on the verge of World War II; of cancer; in Manhattan.
Died. General Nicholas Plastiras, 70, oldtime revolutionary and war hero, and three times Greece's Premier; of a heart ailment; near Athens. Risen from the ranks, Cavalryman Plastiras served with distinction in the Balkan Wars (1912-13), World War I, the postwar anti-Bolshevist Allied expedition to the Ukraine, and Greece's war against the Turks, who respectfully nicknamed him the "Black Pepper." When Greece was disastrously beaten by Turkey (1922), Plastiras helped oust King Constantine, whose regime was blamed for the defeat. In 1933, Plastiras staged another coup to forestall a Royalist comeback, ruled as dictator for 14 hours, but had to flee the country for lack of popular support. Brought back from exile in France by the British after World War II, the sad-faced, fiercely mustached old soldier won the premiership three times (1945, 1950, 1951), once in a surprise victory on a platform favoring the Marshall Plan, NATO and "soak the rich" taxes, vainly tried to conciliate Greece's Communist guerrillas, never stayed in office longer than a year.
Died. Charles William Tobey, 73, sharp-tongued, Bible-quoting G.O.P. Senator from New Hampshire since 1939; of coronary thrombosis; in Bethesda, Md. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).
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