Monday, May. 24, 1954
Married. Geraldine Page, 29, star of stage and screen (Hondo}; and Alexander Schneider, 45, Russian-born concert violinist ; each for the second time; in Tarrytown, N.Y.
Died. Maria Isabella Patifio Goldsmith, 18, daughter of Bolivian Tin King Antenor Patinio, whose runaway marriage in Scotland to British Hotel Heir James Goldsmith, 21, was a front-page tabloid sensation last winter (TIME, Jan. 18); after she collapsed in a Paris hotel with a cerebral hemorrhage, 24 hours later (prematurely) gave birth to a 4-lb.-9-oz. daughter, Isabel Marcelle Christine; in a hospital in suburban Neuilly.
Died. Eric Gibbs, 43, Canadian-born chief of the TIME-LIFE news bureau in Paris; of a heart attack; while covering the Geneva Conference. Gibbs joined TIME as a London correspondent (1946), became London bureau chief (1948), covered fighting in Palestine and Indo-China, headed the TIME-LIFE bureau in Bonn before moving to Paris in 1952.
Died. J. (for Jacob) K. (for Kay) Lasser, 57, Manhattan tax expert, famed for his yellow-jacketed annual booklet Your Income Tax, which has sold more than 12 million copies since it was first published in 1936; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan.
Died. William March (full name: William Edward March Campbell), 60, Alabama-born novelist best known for his bitter novel of World War I, Company K (1933), and his newly published horror tale, The Bad Seed (TIME, April 12); of pneumonia; in New Orleans.
Died. Major General (ret.) Oliver P. Echols, 62, who, as chief of Army Air Forces materiel in World War II, helped boost plane production from 15,855 aircraft in 1941 to 69,930 in 1945; of pneumonia; in Santa Monica, Calif.
Died. Colonel General Heinz Guderian, 65, organizer of Hitler's formidable Panzer divisions before World War II and their leader to victory in Poland and France, to defeat within sight of Moscow; of a liver ailment; in Schwangau, West Germany. No avowed Nazi but loyal to Hitler, Heinz Guderian became Wehrmacht chief of staff in 1944, sought in vain to remove Hitler's ban on retreat in the East, was later ousted and, as the war ended, was captured by U.S. forces. Never tried as a war criminal, Old Soldier Guderian pubished his memoirs, Panzer Leader (1952), lived quietly in the Bavarian Alps until death came.
Died. Clyde Roark Hoey, 76, Democratic U.S. Senator from North Carolina since 1945, one-term (1937-41) governor of North Carolina; of a heart ailment; in his office in Washington.
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