Monday, May. 30, 1960
Marriage Revealed. Herbert Marshall, 69, craftsmanlike, one-legged (from a World War I wound) British-born cinemactor; and Mrs. Dee Anne Kahmann, 38, department-store buyer; he for the fifth time, she for the third; in Los Angeles, on April 25.
Divorced. By R. J. (for Richard Joshua) Reynolds, 54, hard-living tobacco heir, onetime mayor of Winston-Salem, N.C., now confined by ill health to his private island off the Georgia coast: Muriel Maud Marston Laurence Greenough Reynolds, fortyish, his third wife, a former Toronto socialite and World War II foreign correspondent; after almost eight years of marriage, no children; in Darien, Ga.
Died. Audrey May Wurdemann (Mrs.Joseph Auslander), 49, Percy Bysshe Shelley's great-great-granddaughter, who at 24 became the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, subsequently collaborated with her poet-professor husband on two successful novels (My Uncle Jan, The Islanders); of a heart attack following a leg fracture; in Miami.
Died. Fred Harvey, 57, flamboyant president of Harvey's Department Store in Nashville, Tenn.; of a heart attack; in Nashville. Leaving Brown University--where he was voted least likely to succeed --Harvey worked for a succession of stores across the U.S. before starting business in Nashville in 1942. There, his colorful advertising and merchandising--including displays of the Hope Diamond and the brass bed of a Chicago madam--produced galloping expansion and a current volume estimated at $20 million.
Died. Edwin Emil Witte, 73, practical economist who, during his 37 years on the University of Wisconsin faculty, brain-trusted countless federal and state laws, including the U.S. Social Security Act of 1935, served on more than 30 Government bodies, from the National War Labor Board to the U.S. Atomic Energy Labor Relations Panel; following a series of strokes; in Madison, Wis.
Died. Harold Ordway Rugg, 74, Dewey-eyed educator at Columbia University's Teachers College for 31 years, whose high school textbooks sold an estimated 5,500,000 copies despite their being attacked by pressure groups as "un-American" and banned in some communities; of a heart attack; in Bearsville, N.Y.
Born. To Crip, twentyish, lanky (5 ft. 8 in.), loudmouthed (voice range: three miles) whooping crane, the nation's rarest bird (about 40 left in existence), and Josephine, 21, his yellow-eyed spouse: their fourth surviving offspring (in seven years of captive mating); at New Orleans' Audubon Park Zoo.
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