Monday, Oct. 04, 1954
Married. Audrey Hepburn, 25, Oscar-winning actress (Roman Holiday); and Mel Ferrer, 37, cinemactor (Lili); she for the first time, he for the fourth; near Lake Lucerne, Switzerland (see PEOPLE).
Married. Ben (for Benjamin) Grauer, 46, former child movie star and longtime NBC announcer reputed to be the "most often heard man in history," currently M.C. of NBC radio's Conversation (and on call for such special events as conventions, elections, sportscasts), and Melanie Kahane, thirtyish, New York interior decorator; he for the first time, she for the second; in Manhattan.
Divorced. By Maria Tallchief, 29, part-Indian prima ballerina of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo: second husband Emourza Natirboff, 30 (first: Ballet Director George Balanchine), private pilot; after two years of marriage, no children; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Died. Ken Buck, 22, star end (1951-53) at the College of the Pacific, 1953 co-holder (with Georgia's John Carson, Stanford's Sam Morley) of intercollegiate pass-catching honors, first draft choice of the professional-football New York Giants; of cancer (which he learned he had in March, thought he could lick in time to play football this fall); in Paso Robles, Calif.
Death Revealed. Akeeaktashuk, 56, one of the leaders of the small group of Eskimo primitive sculpturists whose work came to the attention of the outside world in recent years because of its fluent, uncluttered simplicity (TIME, July 20, 1953); of drowning July 31, when he slipped from an ice floe while hunting walrus off Ellesmere Island.
Died. Laura Lee, 87, militant suffragette of the Gay Nineties who introduced horrified Boston to the poodle cut and the one-piece bathing suit, helped start a national fad when she wore bloomers (which she cut out and sewed herself) to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair; of a broken neck incurred in a fall; in Melrose, Mass.
Died. Kokichi Mikimoto, 95, onetime noodle merchant who became the world's largest producer of cultured pearls; of a kidney ailment; in Nagoya, Japan. Perfecting by trial and error a method of seeding oysters known since the 13th century (a fleck of sand or a tiny bead is forced into the oyster, which seeks to counteract the irritant by coating it with layer upon layer of pearl-making nacre), spry, fun-loving Mikimoto (who entertained his employees with feats of magic and parasol-twirling) scandalized Paris in 1913, when he first brought his quarter-price pearls to the international market, later piled up an estimated $10 million fortune.
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