Monday, Apr. 26, 1954
Married. Nightclub Singer Susan Marie Zanuck, 20, daughter of 20th Century-Fox Production Boss Darryl F. Zanuck; and Egyptian-born Fox Producer Andre (Powder River, O. Henry's Full House} Hakim, 34; both for the first time; in Las Vegas, Nev.
Died. Captain Michael Tubridy, 32, one of the world's top horsemen, former star rider of the Irish army's jumping team, who retired last January from show riding to run a stud farm; of injuries suffered in a riding accident; in Dublin.
Died. Russell Wheeler ("Mitch") Davenport, 54, author (My Country}, managing editor (1937-40) and chairman of the board of editors of FORTUNE (1941), chief editorial writer of LIFE (1942-44); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In August 1939, Davenport met Lawyer Wendell Willkie at a FORTUNE round table, zealously set out to promote him as a presidential candidate, managed the Willkie strategy at the 1940 Republican Convention, headed the Willkie brain trust during the whirlwind 1940 campaign.
Died. Hubert Scott-Paine, 62, British-born aircraft pioneer and boat designer, who, after 25 years of experimenting, developed the U.S. Navy's vaunted PT (patrol torpedo) boat; after long illness; at his home in Greenwich, Conn.
Died. William S. ("Pete") Newell, 75, shipbuilder and board chairman of the Bath (Me.) Iron Works Corp.; of a heart ailment; in Bath. During the shipbuilding slump of the '20s, Newell saved Bath's yards by rounding up fresh capital, later revolutionized the industry with the "sunken bathtub" method i.e., constructing ships in basins resembling drydocks from which they float out on completion.
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