Monday, Dec. 21, 1959
Born. To Amelia Eden Borelli, 26, Sir Anthony's niece, who ran off to the Italian island of Ischia last year to marry a $34-a-week ferryboat engineer, and Boatman Giovanni Borelli, 30: a daughter; in London, where the couple is visiting. Name: Chaira Maria. Weight: 8 lbs.
Married. Teresa Wright, 40, actress of stage (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs), screen (The Best Years of Our Lives) and TV (The Miracle Worker); and Robert Anderson, 42, playwright (Tea and Sympathy; Silent Night, Lonely Night); both for the second time; in Los Angeles.
Married. Victor Mature, 45, hulking cinemactor (The Big Circus), and Joy Urwick, 25, British actress; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Tijuana, Mexico.
Marriage Revealed. Nora Kaye (real name: Nora Koreff), 38, American Ballet Theater's dramatic ballerina, who has made modern ballet's earthy heroines her own, brought grace and precision to classical roles as well; and Herbert Ross, 33, choreographer of sex-swept ballets (Tristan, Metamorphoses) and nightclub acts; she for the third time (No. 2: Violinist Isaac Stern), he for the first; in Majorca, Spain; on Aug. 21.
Died. Tony Canzoneri, 51, tiny boxing champ who never stopped punching from the moment he entered the ring until he left it, by 13 had won 17 amateur fights, at 16 turned professional, at 19 won the world's featherweight championship, lost it seven months later but won the world's lightweight title in 1930 by knocking out his opponent in the first round; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Jim Bottomley, 59, jaunty left-handed first baseman who helped bat the St. Louis Cardinals to the National League pennant four times in a decade (1922-32), in one game (1924) batted in twelve runs on six hits, the major league record; of a heart attack; in St. Louis.
Died. Bartley Cavanaugh Crum, 59, able lawyer and political dilettante who spent a lifetime in and out of left-wing groups, as a member of the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Palestine (1946) clamored vociferously for the creation of Israel, blasted the Truman State Department in a book (Behind the Silken Curtain) for what he considered its vacillation over Palestine; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Fleet-footed Bart Crum grabbed headlines in 1953 by chasing Aly Khan around the world to win a $1,000,000 divorce settlement for his client Rita Hayworth. But his real forte lay in endlessly championing a multitude of causes, some of them conflicting. Though he had once served as counsel to the Hearst publications, he published New York City's far left PM (renamed the New York Star) for a year (1948) until it folded. As a Republican, he managed Wendell Willkie's 1940 campaign in the West, but since then supported every Democratic presidential nominee.
Died. Vice Admiral Ross T. McIntire, 70, President Roosevelt's personal physician, surgeon general of the Navy (1938-46); of a heart attack; in Chicago. McIntire assured the public in October 1944 (just before the fourth-term election) that F.D.R. was well and hearty, insisted on his accuracy in his 1946 memoirs (White House Physician). He was challenged by Dr. Karl C. Wold, whose book (Mr. President--How Is Your Health?) argued that F.D.R. had suffered two slight strokes long before his fatal one, and by onetime White House Intimate and Democratic National Chairman Jim Farley, who said that F.D.R. was known in 1944 to be a dying man.
Died. Dexter Mason Ferry Jr., 87, Detroit philanthropist, onetime president (1925-41), board chairman (1941-59) of Ferry-Morse Seed Co., world's largest seed producer, which has developed 310 varieties of flowers, 212 of vegetables, grows them on 25,000 acres in 19 states; in Detroit.
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