Monday, Dec. 20, 1954
Born. To Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 27, daughter of Spam's Generalissimo Francisco Franco, and Cristobal Martinez Bordin Ortega y Bascaran, Marques de Villaverde, 32: their third child, first son. Name: Francisco. Weight: 8 Ibs. 13 oz.
Married. Dixie Dunbar, 36, onetime Broadway dancing star (Yokel Boy) whose legs have more recently been seen dancing beneath the pack of Old Golds on TV commercials; and Robert M. Herndon, motion-picture executive; both for the second time; in Manhattan.
Married. Sylvia, Lady Ashley, 44, London chorus girl turned socialite; and Prince Dimitri Djordjadze, 53, imperial Russian cavalryman turned Manhattan hotel executive (the Ambassador) ; she for the fifth time (among her others: Douglas Fairbanks Sr.; Clark Gable), he for the third; in Fort Lee, N.J.
Married. Harold H. Velde, 44, Republican Congressman from Illinois, chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities; and Mrs. Dolores Anderson, 37, his former secretary; both for the second time; in Baltimore.
Married. Alexander Stewart, 82, hardware-store owner and father of Cine mactor James Stewart (who happily played a supporting role as best man); and Mrs. J. J. Stothart, 76; both for the second time; in Indiana, Pa.
Divorced. By Jane Wyman, 40, Oscar-winning cinemactress (Johnny Belinda): Fred Karger, 38, Hollywood composer and orchestra leader, her third husband; after two years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif.
Died. Dr. Stephen B. L. Penrose Jr., 46, president of the American University of Beirut and International College, oldest (founded in 1866) and largest U.S. overseas educational institution; of a heart attack; in Beirut, Lebanon.
Died. Gladys George, 50, full-blown, platinum-blonde character actress of stage (Personal Appearance) and screen (The Best Years of Our Lives); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood.
Died. Joseph B. Keenan, 66, chief prosecutor in the Japanese war crimes trials, onetime gangbusting Assistant U.S. Attorney General; of a heart attack; in Asheboro, N.C.
Died. Hugh Gibson, 71, veteran career diplomat, ranking spokesman (as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium and Minister to Poland and Switzerland) for American policy in Europe during the 1920s and early 1930s, director of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration; of coronary embolism; in Geneva.
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