Monday, Jul. 18, 1955
Born. To Patrice Munsel, 30, Metropolitan Opera coloratura, and Robert Schuler, 34, TV producer and director: their second child, first son. Name: Rhett Carroll. Weight: 6 lbs. 15 oz.
Married. Cecilia DeMille Calvin, 19, granddaughter of Cinemogul Cecil B. DeMille; and Major Abbas El Boughdadly, 33. Egyptian cavalry officer; in twin (Moslem and civil) ceremonies; in San Francisco.
Died. Brigadier General Clinton Dermott ("Casey") Vincent, 40, operations officer of the Continental Air Defense Command, World War II ace (16 Jap planes), and winner of the Silver Star and D.F.C. for his exploits as General Claire Chennault's operations officer and deputy chief of staff in the China-Burma-India theater; in Colorado Springs. West Pointer Vincent was the prototype of "Vince Casey" in Milton Caniff's comic strip Terry and the Pirates, became (at 29) one of the youngest general officers in Army history.
Died. Paul W. White, 53, veteran radio newsman, organizer and longtime (1934-46) director of news broadcasts for the Columbia Broadcasting System; after long illness; in San Diego.
Died. Arch Ward, 58, sports editor of the Chicago Tribune, famed for his catch-all column "Wake of the News," personal promoter of the Golden Gloves Boxing Tournament and originator of the annual All-Star Baseball Game (in 1933) and Football Game (in 1934); of coronary thrombosis; in Chicago.
Died. Dr. Wendell M. Latimer, 62, professor of chemistry at the University of California, onetime (1943-47) director of the Manhattan Project, winner (in 1948) of a Presidential Certificate of Merit for his wartime contribution to the development of the atomic bomb; of a heart attack; in Oakland, Calif.
Died. Adolfo de la Huerta, 74, onetime revolutionary Mexican political leader, Provisional President of Mexico for seven months in 1920, between the assassination of President Venustiano Carranza and the election of General Alvaro Obregon; of a heart ailment; in Mexico City. An original member of the revolutionary movement which overthrew General Porfirio Diaz in 1911, Huerta at first supported Carranza as leader of the revolution, later shifted his support to Obregon, but broke with him when both became presidential candidates in 1923. After an attempted revolt by his followers was blocked by U.S. intervention in 1924, Huerta fled the country, spent the next decade as a voice teacher in California, was pardoned and returned to Mexico in 1935 but never regained political prominence.
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