Monday, Oct. 03, 1955
Marriage Revealed. James T. Farrell, 51, relentlessly detailed novelist (the Studs Lonigan trilogy, the Danny O'Neill series); and his first wife, Dorothy Butler FarrelL fortyish; on Sept. 10; in Montclair. NJ. They were first married in 1931, divorced in 1940, had no children; Farrell married Hortense Alden the same year, divorced her in 1955, had one son, Kevin James.
Died. Robert Riskin, 58, top screenwriter, who teamed with Director Frank Capra (1931-38) to turn out Lost Horizon, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It with You, winner of an Academy Award in 1934 for It Happened One Night, husband of oldtime Cinemactress Fay Wray; after being partially paralyzed from a stroke since 1950; in Woodland Hills, Calif.
Died. John D. Dingell, 61, Democratic Representative from Michigan since 1933, staunch supporter of New and Fair Deal policies (he waged a twelve-year losing fight for a compulsory national health insurance bill); of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C.
Died. Helen Richardson Dreiser, 61, widow of Novelist Theodore Dreiser (An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie), author of My Life with Dreiser; of a heart attack, after being bedridden since 1951: in Portland, Ore.
Died. Jose P. Tamborini. 69, physician, sometime translator, coalition candidate (Communist-Socialist-Radical) in the stormy 1946 Argentine presidential election, in which he was resoundingly defeated by the now deposed strongman Juan Peron (see THE HEMISPHERE); in Buenos Aires.
Died. Donald Clifford Brace, 73, co-founder (1919) and president (1942-48) of Harcourt, Brace & Co., publisher of the early Sinclair Lewis, Carl Sandburg, Katherine Anne Porter, T. S. Eliot; after long illness; in Manhattan.
Died. Francis A. Countway, 79, longtime (1913-46) president of Lever Bros. Co., U.S. subsidiary of the British-Dutch Unilever empire; after long illness; in Boston. After his rise from general manager and treasurer, quiet, publicity-shy Countway raised sales from less than $1,000,000 in 1913 to $250 million in 1944. He invented B.O. during a golf game to boost his product, Lifebuoy; presided over the debuts of Lux Toilet Soap, Rinso, Swan and Spry; in 1939 received the highest salary with bonuses ($469,713) outside Hollywood.
Died. Carl Milles, 80, Swedish-born modern master of park and fountain sculpture; in Lidingoe, Sweden. Milles studied in Paris for seven years, was assistant to Auguste Rodin, moved on to hew lithe, dreamlike figures often drawn from Norse, Greek and American Indian mythologies (TIME, June 27). In 1929 he came to the U.S. to teach at Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., became a U.S. citizen in 1945. Among his best-known works: Stockholm's Orpheus Fountain; St. Louis' The Meeting of the Waters, 19 life-sized figures symbolizing the meeting of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers; The Fountain of Faith in Falls Church, Va., 38 figures representing the reunion of friends in the world of the dead.
Died. Walter Dill Scott, 86, longtime (1920-39) president of Northwestern University during the period of its greatest growth (9,100 to 23,500 students), during which the university built its downtown campus, received nearly $50 million in endowments; in Evanston, Ill.
Died. Samuel H. Kress, 92, founder and chairman (since 1924) of S. H. Kress & Co.. five-and-ten chain, famed artistic philanthropist; in Manhattan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).
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