Monday, Dec. 09, 1957
Born. To Nina ("Honey Bear") Warren Brien, 24, youngest daughter of the Chief Justice, and Dr. Stuart Brien, 35, Beverly Hills obstetrician: a son, their first child; in Los Angeles. Name: William Warren. Weight: 8 Ibs. 3 1/2 oz.
Born. To John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 40, junior Senator from Massachusetts and 1960 White House daydreamer (TIME, Dec. 2), and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy, 28: a daughter, their first child, by Caesarean section. Name: Caroline Bouvier. Weight: 7 Ibs. 2 oz.
Married. Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, 68, hawk-faced, publicity-shy Texas oil multimillionaire; and blue-eyed onetime Stenographer Ruth Ray Wright, 41; both for the second time; in Dallas.
Died. Beniamino Gigli, 67, famed lyric tenor, an Italian shoemaker's son who took over Caruso's roles at the Metropolitan Opera in 1920, sang and acted with a peasant's gusto ("as naturally as a gamecock fights"); of pneumonia; in Rome. Refusing to take a salary cut during the Depression (other Met stars did), Gigli huffed off to Mussolini's Italy, predicted "something like a civil war" for the U.S. (he later denied it all), sang for top Germans during the war ("What would you have done?"). In a triumphant 1955 return to the U.S. (at Carnegie Hall), he flashed moments of his oldtime operatic color, but more often his voice was thin, unsteady and unmistakably 65 years old.
Died. Diego Maria Concepcicn Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez, 70, Mexican Communist artist known the world over as Diego Rivera; of thrombosis and phlebitis; in Mexico City (see ART).
Died. Adeodato Giovanni Cardinal Piazza, 73, longtime secretary of the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of the Consistory; of pneumonia following two cerebral strokes; in Rome (see RELIGION).
Died. Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, 77, German-born South African diamond king; of a heart attack; in Johannesburg (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Died. Sir Alfred Zimmern, 78, egg-bald British political scientist, historian, longtime (1930-44) Oxford professor of international relations, who helped draft the League of Nations Covenant and shape the framework of UNESCO; of a cerebral thrombosis; in Avon, Conn.
Died. Prince George of Greece, 88, handlebar-mustached uncle of King Paul of Greece and Britain's Prince Philip, a onetime vice admiral who won fame in 1891 when he disarmed a would-be assassin of his cousin, Russia's Grand Duke Nicholas (later Czar Nicholas II); after long illness; in Saint-Cloud, France.
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