Monday, May. 09, 1955
Born. To Guy Madison (real name: Robert Moseley), 33, golden-haired idol of TV and radio ("Wild Bill Hickok"), and sometime cinemactor (The Command), and TV Actress Sheila Connolly, 23: their first child, a daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Weight: 4 Ibs. 2 oz.
Married. Norodom Sihanouk, 33, saxophone-playing ex-king of Cambodia who abdicated in March in favor of his father. Prince Suramarit, after charging an international commission with interfering in Cambodian affairs; and Princess Norodom Norleak, his shy second cousin; both for the first time; secretly, in Pnompenh.
Married. Lorraine Manville, sixtyish, who split a $20-million asbestos fortune with her brother, much-married Tommy Manville: and Charles Baxter, 31, TV actor; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Las Vegas, Nev.
Died. Arthur ("Uncle Arthur") Deakin, 64, Socialist head of the Transport and General Workers' Union, Britain's largest labor union (1,300,000 members), onetime chairman of Britain's Trades Union Congress and one of the Labor Party's chief anti-Bevanites; after collapsing while addressing a May Day rally; in Leicester, England. Anti-Communist Deakin played a leading part last week in averting a threatened strike of 65,000 British railworkers.
Died. Hannes Schneider, 64, Austrian-born, internationally famed skimeister regarded as "the father of modern skiing" for his development of the "Arlberg Method" of crouching and swinging instead of standing erect on the downhill run; of a heart ailment; in North Conway, N.H. Schneider taught kings, princes and American millionaires at his ski school at St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria, came to North Conway to found a school in 1939 after a brief imprisonment by the Nazis.
Died. Admiral John Henry Towers, U.S.N. (ret.), 70, pioneer in naval aviation, who flew the first U.S. Navy seaplane in 1911, became commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in 1945 in a shake-up that indicated the increasing importance of Navy aviation; of cancer; in New York City. In 1919 Towers organized a flight of three seaplanes across the Atlantic, crash-landed his NC-3, taxied 205 miles to the Azores, got the Navy Cross after one of the planes reached Portugal safely--the first plane to cross the Atlantic.
Died. Constance Collier, 77, versatile dramatic actress, cinemactress (Kitty, Wee Willie Winkie), playwright (coauthor: The Rat, Down Hill), producer (Camille, Happy Families), author (Harlequinade) and dramatic coach (pupils: Katharine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Shelley Winters); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan.
Died. Frank F. Merriam, 89, onetime (1934-39) Republican governor of California; of a heart attack; at Long Beach, Calif. Succeeding James Rolph Jr. in 1934, Merriam used the National Guard to squelch a San Francisco longshoremen's strike, that fall trounced Socialist-turned-Democrat Upton Sinclair in a bitterly fought gubernatorial campaign.
Died. Colonel Milton B. Ochs, 91, vice president of the Chattanooga Times Printing Company, and the last of a trio of newspaper-publishing brothers (others: Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times, George W. Ochs of the Philadelphia Public Ledger); in Chattanooga.
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