Monday, May. 21, 1956

Born. To Peter Ustinov, 35, pudgy British playwright (The Love of Four Colonels) and cinemactor (Quo Vadis, We're No Angels), and Suzanne Cloutier, 27, Canadian-born cinemactress: their second child, his third, a son; in London. Name: Igor Nicholas. Weight: 8 Ibs.

Born. To Isaac Stern, 35, top-ranking, Russian-born U.S. violinist, now on tour of the U.S.S.R. (TIME, May 14), and Vera Lindenblit Stern, 28: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Shira.

Married. Princess Elisabeth of Luxembourg, 33. blonde elder daughter of Grand Duchess Charlotte; and Prince Franz Ferdinand von Hohenberg, 28, grandson of Habsburg Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 28, 1914, touched off World War I; in Luxembourg.

Divorced. By Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, 69. baseball immortal: Frances Fairbairn Cass Cobb, 46; after nearly seven years of marriage, no children; in Minden, Nev.

Died. Dr. Gordon Keith Chalmers, 52, president since 1937 of Ohio's small (500 students), distinguished Kenyon College; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hyannis, Mass. Founded in 1824 as a training ground for clergymen, Kenyon later became a seat of liberal education, a concept warmly embraced by Rhodes Scholar Chalmers, who took as his lifelong challenge the "gigantic inquiry taken from the Old Testament: 'What is man that Thou art mindful of him?' "

Died. Louis Calhern (real name: Carl Henry Vogt), 61, tall (6 ft. 3 in.), topflight. Brooklyn-born character actor of stage (King Lear) and screen (The Magnificent Yankee, Julius Caesar); of a heart attack, while on location with the M-G-M company of The Teahouse of the August Moon; in Nara, Japan.

Died. Clarence Edward Mulford, 73, prolific author (Bar 20, On the Trail of the Tumbling T), creator of the durable Hopalong Cassidy series; after a chest operation; in Portland, Me. When Hollywood turned Mulford's plug-ugly, hell-for-leather Hoppy into a handsome, clean-living dude (played by William Boyd since 1935), Author Mulford let out a pained cry ("an absolutely ludicrous character''), saw only six versions on celluloid, none on TV. Fifteen years ago, after grinding out more than 100 western novels and short stories, stay-at-home Author Mulford rebelled at high federal income taxes, quit writing altogether.

Died. Jed Prouty, 77, veteran (since 1894) actor of stage (Something for the Boys), screen (Daddy Jones in "The Jones Family" series), and radio (father to The Aldrich Family); in Manhattan.

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