Monday, Dec. 05, 1955
Born. To Kirk Douglas (real name: Issur Danielovitch), 38, Hollywood hard guy (Champion, Ulysses), and his second wife, Anne Buydens Douglas, 32: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Peter Vincent. Weight: 8 Ibs.
Married. Yvonne de Carlo, 33, sultry cinemadventuress (Salome, Where She Danced, The Captain's Paradise); and Robert Drew Morgan, 40, Hollywood stunt man; she for the first, he for the second time; in Reno.
Married. Nancy Kelly, 34, actress of stage (The Bad Seed) and screen; and Warren Caro, 48, Theatre Guild executive; she for the third, he for the second time; in Manhattan.
Married. Fleur Fenton Cowles (real name: Florence Freedman), 45, associate editor of Look magazine from 1947 to November 1955; and Tom Meyer, 37, director of a British timber firm; she for the fourth time, he for the first, one month after her divorce from her third husband, Look Publisher Gardner Cowles; in Bel Air, Calif.
Died. Louis Lachenal, 35, French mountaineer who with Maurice Herzog in 1950 scaled the 26,493-ft. Himalayan peak, Annapurna, and had to have his toes amputated; after a fall into a 120-ft. crevasse while skiing on Mont Blanc.
Died. Herman Steiner, 50, Czech-born U.S. chess champion (1948-51), member of the ten-man U.S. chess team that played in Moscow last summer; of a heart attack following a game for the California State Championship; in Los Angeles.
Died. Vera Buchanan, 53, Democratic Congresswoman from Pennsylvania who was elected in July 1951 after the death of her husband, Congressman Frank Buchanan, and was twice reelected; after long illness; in McKeesport, Pa.
Died. Prince Artchil Gourielli-Tchkonia, 60, husband of Cosmetician Helena Rubinstein, head of the House of Gourielli, manufacturers of cosmetics for men; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Lieut. General (ret.) Stafford LeRoy ("Red") Irwin, 62. onetime (1950-52) commander of U.S. forces in Austria, commander of the 5th Division, which formed the southern arc of the pincer that captured the French city. Metz, in World War II; of a coronary occlusion; in Asheville, N.C.
Died. Lionel George Curtis, 83, scholarly British world federalist, author (Evading a Revolution), one of the founders of the Union of South Africa, early (1916) advocate of a self-governing India, a founder of the Royal Institute of International Affairs; near Oxford, England.
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