Monday, May. 16, 1955
Married. Marion Marlowe, 26, TV songstress fired last month from Arthur Godfrey's Wednesday TV show; and Larry Puck, 55, TV producer fired from the same show last December; both for the second time; in Overland, Mo.
Divorced. Tyrone Power, 41, star of screen (Untamed, The Long Gray Line) and stage (The Dark Is Light .Enough); by Linda Christian, 31, sometime cinemactress ; after six years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif.
Divorced. Barbara Hutton, 42, five-and-dime millionairess who likes to stay indoors all day; by Porfirio Rubirosa, 46, Dominican playboy who likes the outdoors; after 16 months of marriage (all but 77 days of it in separation); on grounds of incompatibility; in Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic.
Died. Robert H. ("Red") McDaniel, 44, leading U.S. trainer of thoroughbreds, who saddled more than 150 winners a year for five consecutive seasons, had his best season last year, when horses saddled by him won 206 races and $834,390; by his own hand (a leap from the Bay Bridge); in San Francisco.
Died. Joseph Flack, 60. U.S. Ambassador to Poland (since 1950) and longtime (39 years) career diplomat; aboard the liner United States, while on his way home from Warsaw for reassignment.
Died. Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr.. 67, part-owner of the 950,000-acre King Ranch of Texas, the country's largest cattle ranch; of a heart attack while vacationing in Hot Springs, Ark. Kleberg studied law, served seven terms in Congress, constantly pushed research on cattle and feeds, once said: "The fate of the world depends upon God and grass."
Died. Georges Enesco, 73, Rumanian composer, conductor and violinist, who became his nation's leading musician, won worldwide acclaim for his Rumanian Rhapsodies; after long illness; in Paris. Enesco entered the Vienna Conservatory at seven despite a director's protest that it was "not a cradle," had had his compositions widely performed by the time he was a young man. He had lived in France for the last 50 years, recently turned down a bid to return to Red-controlled Rumania.
Died. Louis C. Breguet, 75, French airplane manufacturer who in 1908, less than five years after the Wright Brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk, constructed and ascended in a crude apparatus that he called a gyroplane, a forerunner of the helicopter; of a heart attack; in Paris. A topflight builder of World War I military aircraft, Breguet was once scoffed at for predicting that airplanes would fly at 650 m.p.h.
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