Monday, Jun. 20, 1955
Married. Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, 20, retired world tennis queen (Australia, France, England and U.S. championships in 1953) turned sports columnist (for the San Diego Union); and Norman A. Brinker, 24, San Diego State College sophomore and member of the U.S. Olympic equestrian team (1952); in San Diego.
Married. Dr. Roger Bannister. 26, first man to run a four-minute mile, last week named to the Queen's Honors List (see FOREIGN NEWS) ; and Moyra Elver Jacobsson, 26, professional portrait painter, youngest daughter of Swedish Economist Per Jacobsson, and niece of Sir Archibald Nye, British High Commissioner to Canada; in Basel, Switzerland.
Married. Clara King Stribling, 48, widow of W. L. ("Young") Stribling, Georgia's onetime perennial heavyweight boxing title contender who died following a motorcycle crash in 1933; and the Rt. Rev. Randolph Claiborne, 48, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta; she for the second time, he for the first; in Marietta, Ga.
Died. Robert W. Wilcox, 45, often-separated actor-husband of Actress Diana Barrymore; of a heart attack; in his New York Central Railroad compartment en route from Manhattan to Rochester.
Died. Robert Elliot Burns, 63, author of I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang; after long illness; in East Orange, N.J. Burns robbed an Atlanta grocery of $5.85 in 1921, was sentenced to six-to-ten years on the chain gang, escaped and fled to Chicago, where he married and became the $20,000-a-year editor of the Greater Chicago Magazine. Recaptured in 1929, he served another year, escaped again and wrote his colorful account of abuses in the prison camps. His civil rights were restored by the state parole board in Atlanta in 1945.
Died. Walter Hampden, 75, stage, screen and television actor, famed as one of the century's topflight interpreters of high romantic drama; of a stroke; in Hollywood. Hampden scored his first major critical success at 26 in England, as a substitute for Sir Henry Irving in Hamlet. His touring repertory company (formed in 1908) brought him fame as one of the most versatile Shakespearean actors of his day. He turned to character roles in the movies (All This and Heaven Too, Sabrina) and radio, but was unhappy about having to adapt his style to modern low-key scripts. "Continuation of this movement," he said, "can result only in the hobbling of dramatic art."
Died. Pattillo Higgins, 92, Texas oilman who triggered the Spindletop strike near Beaumont which ushered in the oil age; in Houston (see BUSINESS).
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