Monday, Mar. 05, 1951
Born. To Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 24, only child of Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco, and Cristobal Martinez Bordiu Ortega y Bascaran, Marques de Villaverde, 29; their first child, a daughter. Name: Carmen. Weight: 6 Ibs. 13 oz.
Marriage Revealed. Lawrence Peter
Fisher, 62, millionaire speed-racing, art-collecting automobile executive, only bachelor of Detroit's five living Fisher ("Body by Fisher") Brothers, onetime president (1925-34) of Cadillac Motor Car Co., General Motors vice president (1934-44); and Dolly Roach, fiftyish, his great & good friend for more than 20 years; last July 3.
Died. Edmund P. Pillsbury, 37, vice president of Pillsbury (flour) Mills, Inc., Alfred D. Lindley, 43, socialite sportsman, and Dexter L. Andrews, 38, all Minneapolis business leaders; in the crash of a light plane piloted by Pillsbury; near Paxton, Neb.
Died. Major General Bryant Edward Moore, 56, commander of the U.S. IX Corps; in Korea (see WAR IN ASIA).
Died. Lewis Herold Brown, 57, onetime Iowa farm boy who worked his way through the State University of Iowa, was an infantry captain in World War I, began his postwar career as a $15-a-week salesman, rose in eight years to assistant manager of all Montgomery Ward plants. At 33, he joined the $150 million Johns-Manville Corp., two years later became its president; of a heart attack; in Delray Beach, Fla.
Died. Horace Horton Underwood, 60, Presbyterian missionary-educator in Korea, member of the famed missionary and typewriter-manufacturing family; of coronary occlusion; in Pusan, where he was working among Korean war refugees. Underwood was president (1934-41) of Chosen Christian University, which was founded by his father, a pioneer Protestant missionary in Korea. In 1949 his missionary wife was murdered by Korean Reds (TIME, March 28, 1949).
Died. Fred Morrell Zeder, 64, vice chairman of the board and vice president of Chrysler Corp. (Plymouth, Dodge, DeSoto, Chrysler cars) ; and the company's chief engineer and designer; of a heart attack; in Miami.
Died. Alfred Grunwald, 67, Vienna-born librettist, collaborator with Franz Lehar and Emmerich (Countess Maritza) Kalman of a heart ailment; in New York City.
Died. Margaret Mayo (Lilian Clatten), 68, oldtime hit playwright (Baby Mine, Polly of the Circus) ; after long illness; in Ossining, N.Y.
Died. Joseph Di Giorgio, 76, a Sicilian immigrant who became a millionaire with his Di Giorgio Fruit Corp., one of the biggest fruit & vegetable empires in the U.S. (20,000 acres in Florida and California); of a heart attack; in Di Giorgio Calif.
Died. Cyril Maude, 88, longtime (1884-1927) leading British light-comedy actor (1,300 appearances in Grumpy), father of Conservative M.P. John Maude; of influenza; in Torquay, England.
Died. "General" James W. Moore, 99, commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans, only member able to attend last year's 60th reunion, the last scheduled meeting of the tiny band of Civil War survivors; in Selma, Ala.
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