Monday, Aug. 01, 1955

Born. To Julie Harris, 29, elfin stage and film actress (The Member of the Wedding, East of Eden), and Manning Gurian, 41, theatrical manager: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Peter Alston. Weight: 6 Ibs. 10 oz.

Married. Dorothy Kirsten, 39, Metropolitan Opera soprano; and Dr. John Douglas French, 44, neurosurgeon at Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital; she for the third time, he for the first; in San Marino, Calif.

Died. Rear Admiral Apollo Soucek, 58, onetime (1953-55) chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, crack Navy test pilot and onetime holder of altitude records for sea-(38,560 ft. in 1929) and landplanes (43,166 ft. in 1930); of a heart attack in his sleep. Annapolisman Soucek, member of a famed Navy flying team (brother Zeus is a retired lieutenant commander turned aircraft-industry executive), was air officer of the carrier Hornet when it launched the Doolittle B-25 raid on Tokyo. in 1942, later commanded Task Force 77 in Korean waters.

Died. Vaclav Nosek, 59, bulb-nosed Himmler of the Czech Communist regime, believed to have been involved in the "defenestration" death of Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk in 1948; after long illness; in Prague. Nosek fled to England when the Nazis seized power, returned as Minister of the Interior in the pre-Communist coalition government, and systematically helped turn his country into a police state.

Died. Ahmed Qavam es Sultaneh, 73, wealthy Iranian landowner, four-time Premier of Iran; after long illness; in Teheran. Known as the "old fox"' of Iranian politics, Qavam was labeled alternately a Communist and a rightist, first became Premier in 1921. He returned from retirement in 1942 to win and hold the wartime premiership, led a successful fight to force the Russians out of Iran after World War II.

Died. Cordell Hull, 83, longtime (1933-44) Secretary of State under the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt; in Bethesda, Md. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Constant Victor Andre Mornet, 85, Procureur General of France, prosecutor in the trials of Dutch dancing-girl-turned-spy Mata Hari (1917), Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and Pierre Laval (1945); in Nohant-Vic, France. Called by his government to prosecute Petain, Mornet summed up in a stormy five-hour speech, concluded: "I would not be doing my duty if I did not insist on the capital penalty."

Died. Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, 86, Armenian oil baron; of a heart attack; in Lisbon, Portugal (see BUSINESS).

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