Monday, Nov. 15, 1954
Born. To Bobby Breen, 27, onetime singing cinemoppet (currently making a comeback on TV) who piped his way to stardom at eight (Let's Sing Again, Make a Wish), and red-haired ex-Model Jocelyn Lesh, 22: their first child; in Brooklyn. Name: Hunter Keith. Weight: 6 1/2 lbs.
Married. John Wayne, 46, leathery cinemactor (The High and the Mighty, Hondo) and fancier of Latin-type ladies ("Some men collect stamps; I go for Latin Americans"); and bosomy, Peruvian-born Pilar Palette, 26; he for the third time, she for the second; in Hawaii.
Married. Mary Elizabeth Altemus ("Liz") Whitney Person, 48, socialite horsewoman; and Richard Lunn, 40, public-relations man; she for the third time (her first: Millionaire Horseman John Hay ["Jock"] Whitney), he for the second; in Washington, D.C.
Died. Ali Reza, 32, younger brother of the Shah of Persia, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, and heir presumptive to the Iranian throne; in a plane crash; in Iran's Elburz Mountains (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Died. Oran ("Hot Lips") Page, 46, barrel-chested, gravel-voiced jazzman whose warm-toned, wildly improvised trumpet playing on such records as The Sheik of Araby and Hucklebuck brought him the international accolades of jazz addicts; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Dr. Mahmoud Azmi, 65, chief Egyptian delegate to the United Nations; of a heart attack while defending Egypt against Israeli charges in the U.N. Security Council; in Manhattan.
Died. Hadji Agus Salim, 70, onetime Indonesian Foreign Minister and delegate to the United Nations; of a heart attack; in Jakarta. One of the most influential figures in the Islamic world, Elder Statesman Salim was for more than two dec ades a leader in Indonesia's struggle for independence from the Dutch.
Died. Field Marshal Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, 73, German World War II tank commander, exponent and early practitioner of the blitzkrieg; of circulatory difficulties; in a Russian prison camp. Product of the Prussian military caste, Von Kleist contributed decisively to France's swift collapse by sending his Panzer divisions racing around the northern end of the Maginot Line. In 1945 he surrendered to two American soldiers (to avoid being captured "in the presence of common, retreating German soldiers"), was sentenced to 15 years as a war criminal by the Yugoslavs, who then turned him over to the Russians.
Died. Henri Matisse, 84, modern art's greatest colorist; of a heart attack; in Nice (see ART).
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