Monday, Apr. 04, 1955
Married. Richard Applegate, 40, NBC correspondent captured in 1953 by the Chinese Communists while cruising on a small yacht west of Hong Kong, and released last fall after 18 months' imprisonment; and Barbara Barrows Hoerter, 38, Applegate's lecture manager; both for the second time; in Chicago. Serving as best man was I.N.S. Correspondent Donald Dixon, who was captured with Applegate and released by the Chinese at the same time.
Died. Evie Hone, 62, famed Irish-born stained-glass artist, whose dazzling, angularly primitive windows glitter in some 20 churches all over the British Isles (among the most widely praised: her Crucifixion window in Eton's restored 15th-century chapel--TIME, June 30, 1952); of a heart attack; in Dublin.
Died. Walter White, 61, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and dogged, sometimes aggravating fighter against racial discrimination; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).
Died. Paul Vories McNutt, 63, lawyer, onetime (1933-37) Democratic governor of Indiana and first U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines (1946-47), administrator of key New Deal and Fair Deal agencies and perennial aspirant to the Democratic presidential nomination; of cancer; in Manhattan. Handsome, white-haired Paul McNutt set his sights on the presidency ("I intend to be President of the United States") while still a Harvard Law School student in 1916. He served as a field-artillery officer in World War I, returned to Indiana to become (in 1919) law professor at Indiana University and later (1925-33), dean of the university law school. Elected national commander of the American Legion in 1927, he rode the Roosevelt wave into office four years later as Indiana's first Democratic governor in 16 years. In 1937 he was appointed High Commissioner to the Philippines by F.D.R., returned to Washington in 1939 and served as Federal Security Administrator (1939-45) and War Manpower Commissioner (1942-45). His White House chances reached their high in the 1940 Democratic Convention in Chicago, when, backed by a nationwide string of McNutt-for-President clubs, he was a leading candidate for the vice-presidential nomination, but loyally withdrew after Roosevelt insisted on Henry Agard Wallace as a running mate.
Died. Dr. Ivan Subasich, 63, wartime (1944-45) Premier of King Peter's Yugoslav government in exile and chief architect of the coalition government of Peter's Royalists and Marshal Tito's Partisans; in Zagreb. An early supporter of Tito, Subasich negotiated the agreement that eliminated Allied support of anti-Communist General Draja Mihailovich and paved the way to Tito's rise to power. In 1945 he served as Tito's Foreign Minister, went to Moscow to sign a 20-year treaty with the Soviet Union, but broke with the government six months later and retired.
Died. Arthur da Silva Bernardes, 70, onetime (1922-26) President of Brazil and indefatigable opponent of foreign-capital operations in Brazil; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. Outspoken, scrupulously honest Politico Bernardes was exiled and later pardoned by President Getulio Vargas for his part in the unsuccessful Sao Paulo revolt in 1932, in later years was widely hailed as the elder statesman of Brazilian nationalism and as a major influence behind the 1953 petroleum bill, which closed Brazil's oil resources to foreign companies.
Died. Prince Michael Cantacuzene, 79, prerevolutionary Russian general and former husband of Julia Dent Grant, granddaughter of President Ulysses S. Grant; in Sarasota, Fla. Prince Cantacuzene met Julia Grant, daughter of onetime (1888-93) Ambassador to Austria-Hungary Major General Frederick D. Grant, at Cannes, married her in 1899, and was divorced by her in 1934, spent his last years as a Florida bank executive and manager of agricultural holdings.
Died. Dr. Otto Gessler, 80, post-World War I (1920-28) German Minister of Defense, who sanctioned the German Republic's creation of an illegal "black Reichswehr" in violation of the 100,000-man limit set by the Versailles treaty; of a heart attack; in Lindenberg, Germany.
Died. John William Davis, 81, dean of U.S. corporation and constitutional lawyers and onetime (1924) Democratic candidate for President; of pneumonia; in Charleston, S.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).
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