Monday, Dec. 24, 1956
Married. Charles Lament (Charley) Jenkins, 22, Villanova University senior and 1956 Olympic 400-meter track champion, who holds the world's 500-yd. indoor record (56.4 sec.); and Phyllis Randolph, 20, clerk at the Boston Army Base; in Boston.
Divorced. By Vivian Elaine (real name: Vivian Stapleton), 35, actress (Miss Adelaide of Guys and Dolls on both stage and screen): Manny G. Frank, 54, her longtime agent; after eleven years of marriage, no children; in Little Rock, Ark.
Death Revealed. Prince Fumitaka ("Butch") Konoye, 41, son of the late Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Japan's Premier during 1937-39 and 1940-41; of Bright's disease on Oct. 29; in a Russian prison camp at Ivanovo, northeast of Moscow. Princeton exposed Prince Konoye (he captained the university's 1937-38 golf team, flunked out in his senior year) was captured in Manchuria (1945) while serving as a lieutenant, in 1951 was socked with a 25-year sentence for "aiding capitalism." Russia did not bother to inform Japan of his death, allowed news to leak out last week when other Ivanovo inmates were repatriated.
Died. Robert Louis (Bob) Olin, 48, cobble-faced onetime (1934-35) light-heavyweight boxing champ (he out-waltzed Maxie Rosenbloom for the title, lost it to John Henry Lewis on a decision), and since 1952 the proprietor of a cheesecake-and-cocktail oasis on Manhattan's Central Park West; of a heart attack; in New York City.
Died. Grace Reidy Comiskey, 62, blonde, baseball-wise widow of fleshy (400 lb.) J. Louis Comiskey. owner of the Chicago White Sox since his death in 1939; of a heart attack; in Chicago. Businesswoman Comiskey took over active control of the White Sox by breaking her husband's will, which named a trustee to run the club, became the American League's first woman president, later defeated her son Charles's efforts to win control.
Died. Everette Lee DeGolyer, 70, pioneer oil geologist, multimillionaire oilman, wide-ranging book collector; by his own hand (.38 revolver) after long illness; in Dallas (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).
Died. Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi, 86, pudgy, crop-headed longtime Finnish statesman and Finland's President from 1946 to 1956, who negotiated three peace treaties with Russia (1920, 1940, 1944), successfully guided his country along a tortuous path between excessive appeasement and foolhardy provocation of its carnivorous neighbor; of a heart attack; in Helsinki. Born Johan August Hellsten, he changed his Swedish name to its Finnish equivalent before he entered politics, served twice as Finnish Premier (1918, 1944-46) before running for President. In 1955 he made his seventh official journey to the Kremlin1, negotiated a 20-year mutual defense pact, wangled a promise that Russia would withdraw from its Finnish naval base at Porkkala. Patriot Paasikivi's coldly realistic view of his country's situation: Finland "is too small and dangerously located to afford a foreign policy directed against Russia."
Died. Lord Quickswood, 87 (formerly Lord Hugh Richard Heathcote Gascoyne-Cecil), longtime (1895-1906, 1910-37) Tory Member of Parliament and later (1936-44) provost of Eton, best man at the 1908 wedding of his lifelong friend Sir Winston Churchill; of a heart attack; in Bournemouth, England. A High Churchman who deplored nonconformists, Lord Hugh objected in 1938 to Unitarian Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's advising the Crown on the appointment of Anglican bishops, observed darkly: "If we lived in the reign of King Henry VIII, a Unitarian would not be in Downing Street. He would be burned at Smithfield."
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