Monday, Oct. 15, 1956
Born. To Leopold III, 54, onetime (1934-51) King of the Belgians, and his morganatic second wife, Marie Liliane, Princess de Rethy, 38: a second daughter, third child (his sixth); at their Chateau de Laeken, near Brussels. Name: Maria-Esmeralda Adelaide Lilian Anne Leopoldine. Weight: 7 Ibs. 6 oz.
Married. Ken Rosewall, 21, freckled Australian tennis prodigy who startled tennis handicappers in 1952 by upsetting U.S. Davis Cup Captain Vic Seixas in the U.S. Nationals, last month won the U.S. championship; and Wilma Mclver, 22, movie theater receptionist; in Brisbane.
Divorced. Martha Raye, fortyish, frenetic TV comedienne (The Martha Raye Show); by her fifth husband, long-maned TV Chorus Boy Edward Thomas Begley, 32; after two years of marriage, no children ; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Died. Michel Detroyat, 50, flamboyant French stunt pilot who in 1932 set a record for flying upside down (26 min. 2.4 sec.), later (1936) became the first foreigner to win the UfS.'s Thompson Trophy race (at a record 264.261 m.p.h.); of a cerebral embolism; in Paris.
Died. Sir Charles Richard Fairey, 69, burly, towering (6 ft. 6 in.) British yachtsman who founded (1916) the Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd., built seaplanes and fighters during World War I, developed Britain's first all-metal plane, pioneered in aircraft streamlining, won a knighthood (1942), later (March 1956) saw a Fairey Delta 2 jet push the world's official speed record for conventional planes to 1,132 m.p.h.; of a heart ailment; in London.
Died. Janet Allen Walker, 70, onetime vaudeville singer who warbled Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?, later (1912) married the song's Greenwich Village lyricist, James J. ("Jimmy") Walker, onetime (1925-32) musicomedy mayor of New York, divorced him in 1933, retired to Miami Beach and opened a religious bookshop, had monthly requiem Masses said for Jimmy after his death in 1946; of cancer; in Miami Beach.
Died. Captain Alfred Hart Miles, U.S.N. (ret.), 72, co-author (with Royal Lovell, Charles A. Zimmerman)_ of the Annapolis song Anchors Aweigh; in a fall at his home; in Norfolk, Va.
Died. Albert Von Tilzer, 78 (born Gumm), longtime artisan of Tin Pan Alley, who wrote (1908) Take Me Out to the Ball Game (with Lyricist Jack Norworth), reputedly did not see a baseball game until 20 years later, also turned out Heart of My Heart, I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time and Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo; in Los Angeles.
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