Monday, Mar. 17, 1958
Marriage Revealed. Franchot Tone, 53, Cornell-educated (Phi Beta Kappa, '27) actor; and Dolores Dorn-Heft, twenty-odd, onetime off-Broadway leading lady; he for the fourth time (No. 1: Joan Crawford, 1935-39), she for the first; in Hull. Quebec; on May 14, 1956.
Died. George Wadsworth, 64, career Foreign Service officer, until recently Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, specialist in Middle Eastern diplomacy who last year told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Arab-Israeli peace was "not in the cards today"; after an operation for cancer; in Bethesda, Md.
Died. Wilhelm Zaisser, 65, German Communist organizer who, as "General Gomez," was supreme commander of all the International Brigades in the Spanish civil war; of unspecified illness, after "severe suffering"; in East Berlin. Zaisser, who went to Moscow when it was clear that Franco would win in Spain, went back to his own country after World War II, organized and became the boss of the East German People's Police, was fired after the explosive anti-Communist rebellion of 1953.
Died. John Held Jr., 69, cartoonist and author, whose famed, flat-hipped flapper became so much a symbol of the 1920s that she evolved from a caricature of the era into a model for its styles and behavior; of heart disease; in Belmar, N.J. Once paid a reported $2,500 weekly for the cartoon strip 0 Margy, Held liked to refer to his income as "Flapper Jack," worked seven days a week trying to keep up with editors' demands (from Judge, College Humor, the old Life). His frail, fast-living heroine, whose stockings were rolled above the knee and below the hem, carried pocket flask and outsize cigarette holder, appropriately illustrated the pages of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tales of the Jazz Age.
Died. Walter W. Stewart, 72, who retired in 1955 from President Eisenhower's three-man Council of Economic Advisers, also advised Presidents Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Sometime president of Case, Pomeroy & Co., a private investment firm, Stewart was honored in 1928 with an appointment as U.S. adviser to the Bank of England, also served as a member of the reparations commission on Germany and board chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation.
Died. Infanta Maria Eulalia Francisca de Bourbon, 94, aunt of the late King Alfonso XIII of Spain, daughter of Queen Isabella II; in Irun, Spain. The Infanta specialized in introductions-to-royalty for American millionaires, black-sheepishly collected such "fees" as motorcars and yachts.
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