Monday, Feb. 28, 1955
Born. To Nancy Oakes, 31, daughter of the late Sir Harry Oakes and ex-wife of Count Alfred de Marigny, who was acquitted in 1943 of the murder of his father-in-law in Nassau, and Baron Ernst Lyssard von Hoyningen Huene, 25, of Oberammergau, Germany: their first child, a son; in Nassau, Bahama Is.
Married. Maria Eugenia Pinilla, 21, daughter of President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of Colombia; and Samuel Moreno, 33, lawyer and director of the influential Conservative daily, Diario de Colombia; in Bogota, Colombia.
Married. John Wilmer Galbreath, 57, Ohio real estate tycoon and president of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball club; and Mrs. Russell Firestone, fiftyish, widow of the second son of Harvey S. Firestone, founder of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; both for the second time; in Miami.
Died. Pete Jarman, 62, longtime (1937-49) Congressman from Alabama and postwar (1949-53) U.S. Ambassador to Australia; of a heart attack; in Washington.
Died. Kim Sung Soo, 64, onetime (1951-52) Vice President of South Korea, head of the anti-Syngman Rhee Democratic Nationalist Party; of palsy; in Seoul, Korea. Kim resigned as Vice President as a protest against Rhee's declaration of a state of martial law in 1952 and his penchant for jailing National Assembly critics of his government.
Died. Sahebzadi Azam-Un-Nisa Begum Saheba, 65, first of the four wives (two still alive) of His Exalted Highness Osman Ali Khan, Nizam of Hyderabad, 72, often reputed to be the world's richest man (estimated assets: $1 to $2 billion), and mother of the Nizam's heir, Azam Jah, 48, Prince of Berar; in Hyderabad, India. In addition to his surviving wives, the Nizam has 42 women in his harem, 33 living children, 46 grandchildren.
Died. William Bingham II, 75, Cleveland-born philanthropist, famed for his efforts to improve rural medical facilities throughout the New England area; in Miami Beach. In the 1920s and '30s Bingham gave away $3,000,000, much of it for the organization and support of the Bingham Associates Fund and Boston's Joseph H. Pratt Diagnostic Hospital to make metropolitan medical facilities available to country doctors.
Died. Charles Donagh Maginnis, 88, veteran U.S. designer and architect of ecclesiastical buildings, e.g., the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, the bronze doors of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, Knight of Malta by appointment (1945) of Pope Pius XII, twice (1937 and 1938) president of the American Institute of Architects; in Boston.
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