Monday, Jun. 27, 1955
Born. To Robert Taylor, 43, veteran Hollywood leading man (Many Rivers to Cross--), and Ursula Thiess, 31, German-born cinemactress (Bengal Brigade): their first child (her third), a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Terrance. Weight: 7 Ibs. 11 oz.
Married. Lewis Hoad, 20, Australian Davis Cup star famed for his "big" game; and Jennifer Staley, 21, one of Australia's leading women tennis players; at Wimbledon, England.
Died. John Graham Dowling, 41, veteran overseas reporter, TIME bureau chief in Buenos Aires and former (1950-53) bureau chief in Singapore, World War II Chicago Sun correspondent in the Pacific Theater, son of Comedienne Ray Dooley Dowling, stepson of Actor Eddie Dowling; in the crash of a Panair do Brazil plane; at Cuatro Mojones, Paraguay.
Died. Ralph Heyward Isham, 64, retired businessman, collector of rare manuscripts, including the Boswell papers, which were acclaimed by scholars as the greatest literary find of the century; after long illness; in Manhattan. In 1927, two years after the supposedly destroyed Boswell papers had been found by Yale's Professor Chauncey Tinker at Malahide Castle in Ireland, Isham bought his first lot of the papers, found and bought five other lots in the next 23 years, sold the entire collection to Yale.
Died. Carlyle Blackwell, 71, wavy-haired romantic idol of the silent screen (The Third Woman, The Beloved Vagabond, She), and leading man for early screen beauties Marion Bavies, Betty Blythe, Blanche Sweet, Alice Joyce et al.; of heart disease; in Miami.
Died. John Golden, 80, veteran play producer and theatrical jack-of-all-trades; of a heart attack.; in Bayside, N.Y. Golden had a brief and unsuccessful fling at acting before making a name for himself as a song writer with comedy hits--Poor Butterfly, Goodby, Girls, I'm Through, etc. In 1916 he produced his first show, Turn to the Right, followed it with Light-nin', which set a new long-run record of 1,291 performances. In the next 36 years. Golden brought more than 100 shows to Broadway (including Susan and God, The Male Animal, Claudia, Counsellor-at-Law), became famous as the champion of "clean, humorous American plays" for the entire family.
Died. Josiah Willard Hayden, 81, president (since 1937) of the $70 million Charles Hayden Foundation (founded by his bachelor brother, Wall Street Financier Charles Hayden), distributor of some $20 million of the foundation's money for the "well-being, uplifting and development of boys and young men"; of injuries suffered in an auto accident; in Arlington, Mass.
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