Monday, Feb. 21, 1955
Born. To Jose Ferrer, 43. Hollywood and Broadway director (My 3 Angels) and actor (Moulin Rouge, The Shrike), and Rosemary Clooney, 26, jukebox and screen songstress (Red Garters): their first child, his second, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif.
Married. Maria Pia, 20, daughter of Italy's exiled King Umberto, Princess Royal of the House of Savoy; and Prince Alexander, 30, shipping executive and son of Yugoslavia's onetime Prince Regent Paul; in the village of Cascais, Portugal.
Divorced. By John Conrad Russell, Viscount Amberley, 32, son of Britain's Philosopher Bertrand Russell: Susan Doniphan Lindsay, 28, daughter of late U.S. poet Vachel Lindsay, on grounds of adultery; after eight years of marriage, three children; in Caernarvon, Wales.
Died. Rush Dew Holt. 49, politically erratic onetime (1935-41 ) wonder-boy U.S. Senator from West Virginia, more recently a member of the West Virginia legislature; of cancer; in Bethesda. Md. Elected to the Senate when he was 29 as a New Deal Democrat, Holt waited six months until he reached the required age of 30 before taking his seat, quickly alienated his coal-miner supporters by filibustering to death the Guffey-Vinson coal bill, was characterized by the United Mine Workers as "the dirtiest traitor of all." Defeated in the 1940 primary, he retired temporarily from politics, turned Republican in 1950, got the G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination but lost the election in 1952.
Died. Ona Munson, 46, onetime musical comedy ingenue (No, No, Nanette) and cinemactress (Belle Watling of Gone With the Wind); by her own hand (sleeping pills); in Manhattan.
Died. Maria Nys Huxley, 55, wife of British-born Poet-Essayist-Novelist Aldous Huxley (Point Counter Point, Brave New World); of cancer; in Los Angeles.
Died. Pierre-Andre Lefaucheux, 56, president of France's government-owned
Renault automobile works; in an auto mobile accident; near St. Dizier, France.
In World War II, Lefaucheux took an active part in the French Resistance movement, was made Renault president after the Liberation, when the government confiscated the company on the grounds that it had collaborated with the Nazis.
Died. S. Z. ("Cuddles") Sakall, 62, gelatin-jowled, Hungarian-born Holly wood character actor (Casablanca, Small Town Girl) famed for his heavily accented manglings of the English language ("No, no, no. Inside iss not; you must quick stay out!"); of heart disease; in Los Angeles.
Died. General Brehon Burke Somervell, 62, $110,000-a-year chairman and president of Koppers Co., Inc., and World War II chief of the Army's Services of Supply; after long illness; in Ocala, Fla.
A topflight Army engineer. West Pointer Somervell had wide administrative experience in government, served with distinction during the 19305 as New York City's Works Progress Administrator, took over the job of Army supply in 1942. The super-holding company which he bossed delivered men and supplies to the U.S.
and its allies on the war fronts of both hemispheres, in the 3! months after D-day pushed across the naked Normandy beaches twice as many munitions, vehicles and supplies (17 million tons) as Pershing received through all of World War I.
Died. Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, 65, prolific writer of magazine stories and some 20 mystery novels (Lady Killer, The Innocent Mrs. Duff, The Blank Wall}, known to whodunit fans as one of the earliest (since 1929) and most skillful practitioners of the novel of psychological suspense; after long illness; in The Bronx, N.Y.
Died. Worthington Scranton, 78, grand son of the founding family of Scranton, Pa., onetime (1906-28) president of the Scranton Gas & Water Co., banker, prominent figure in state and national affairs of the Republican Party, philanthropist and civic leader; of a stroke; in West Palm Beach, Fla.
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