Monday, Dec. 31, 1956
Born. To Carroll Baker, 22, star of Baby Doll (TIME, Dec. 24), and Jack Garfein, 26, theatrical director: a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Blanche. Weight: 8 lb. 4 oz.
Born. To Dean Martin, 39 (born Dino Crosetti), limp-tonsilled songbird and ex-straightman for Cinemoron Jerry Lewis, and Jeanne Biegger Martin, 30, onetime Miami model, his second wife: a daughter, their third child (his seventh). Name: Gina. Weight: 6 lb. 10 oz.
Died. Charles Henry Campbell, 52, witty, walrus-mustached, New Orleans-raised Briton, longtime (1923-42) staffer of the New Orleans Item and Morning Tribune, Britain's head pressagent in Washington since 1942; of a stomach hemorrhage; in Knoxville, Tenn.
Died. Judith Lyndon Welch, 67, onetime Chautauqua lecturer on Negro folklore and wife for 39 years of Joseph Nye Welch, quizzical, quick-thinking Boston attorney who tilted effectively with Senator Joseph R. McCarthy in the televised Army-McCarthy hearings; after long illness; in Boston.
Died. Whitford Kane, 75, genial, jowly, Irish-born Shakespearean actor, who acted Hamlet's whimsical first gravedigger in 23 productions, helped bury some 40 Ophelias; of cancer; in Manhattan.
Died. Dr. Frank Aydelotte, 76, longtime (1921-40) president of Swarthmore College, director (1939-47) of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J., and American secretary (1918-53) of the Rhodes scholarship program for Oxford University; after a cerebral thrombosis; in Princeton. Himself a Rhodes scholar ('05) from Indiana University, Frank Aydelotte forfeited part of his stipend by marrying (Cecil Rhodes stipulated that his scholars must be single), but completed his studies at Oxford, later revised and stiffened selection of the U.S.'s Rhodes scholars, while at Swarthmore instituted a system of independent studies for top students based on Oxford's plan.
Died. Dr. Lewis Madison Terman, 79, longtime Stanford University psychologist, who developed the widely used Stanford-Binet IQ test in 1916, followed up his work with a 30-year study of 1,400 California schoolchildren with IQs past the threshold of genius (140-plus); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palo Alto, Calif. Tester Terman's findings: his bright children grew up healthier, slightly wealthier and better employed than the average child, but the group contained "no mathematician of truly first rank, no university president . . . gives no promise of contributing any Aristotles, Newtons, Tolstoys ... In achieving eminence, much depends on chance."
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