Monday, Apr. 02, 1956
Married. Rita Gam, 27, sultry TV and screen (The Thief, Saadia) actress; and Thomas Henry Guinzburg, 29, Viking Press executive; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan.
Married. Aldous Leonard Huxley, 61, British-born short-story writer, essayist and novelist (Point Counter Point, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan); and Laura Archera, 40, Italian concert violinist; he for the second time; in Yuma, Arizona's Drive-In Wedding Chapel.
Died. Robert Newton, 50, top-ranking British-born screen actor (Treasure Island, The Beachcomber) and TV player (Long John Silver); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills.
Died. Josephine M. Culbertson, 57, high priestess of contract bridge, popularizer with her late former husband, Ely Culbertson (TIME, Jan. 9), of his famed Culbertson System; in Manhattan.
Died. Lieut. General Eduardo Lonardi, 59, who overthrew the ten-year rule of Argentina's Strongman Juan Peron in last year's five-day revolution, served as provisional President for 50 days, until ousted by a palace coup (TIME, Nov. 21) for his moderate attitude toward defeated Peronistas; after long illness; in Buenos Aires' Central Military Hospital. Soft-spoken General Lonardi spent a year (1947-48) in Washington as Argentina's representative on the Inter-American Defense Board, was forced out of the army in 1951 for allegedly plotting against Peron. Jailed for eight months in 1952 as leader of an anti-government plot, he continued to organize anti-Peron forces, and on Sept. 17, 1955 revealed himself in a dramatic radio broadcast as "leader of the forces of liberation."
Died. William Bushnell Stout, 75, famed aviation pioneer, builder of the first (1918) internal-strut, cantilever-wing U.S. aircraft, the first commercial monoplane (in 1919) and the first all-metal plane (a Navy torpedo bomber in 1922), co-designer of the famed Ford Tri-motor ("Tin Goose") in 1925; of a heart attack; in Phoenix, Ariz.
Died. Spyridon Vlachlos, 82, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens and Primate of Greece since 1949, ten days after presiding at an emergency meeting of the ruling body of the Greek Church, which appealed to world religious organizations to back the cause of exiled Cypriot Archbishop Makarios; in Athens.
Died. Wilhelm Miklas, 83, pre-World War II President (1928-38) of the Austrian Republic, who twice in 1938 refused Hitler's ultimatum to form an Austrian Nazi government, was forced out of office on the day Nazi troops rolled across the border; in Vienna.
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