Monday, Sep. 05, 1955

Born. To Pier Angeli (real name: Anna Marie Pierangeli), 23, piquant Italian-born cinemactress, and Vic Damone (real name: Vito Farinola), Brooklyn-born crooner and cinemactor, 27: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Perry Rocco Luigi. Weight: 8 lbs. 13 oz.

Married. Bela Lugosi, 72, Hungarian-born cinema spook (Dracula); and Hope Lininger, 39, movie studio cutting clerk, after she wrote him daily letters during his recent hospital confinement for drug addiction; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Hollywood.

Divorced. By Sterling Hayden, 39, merchant mariner turned cinemactor (The Eternal Sea): lynx-eyed, blonde Betty de Noon, 33, sometime model; both for the second time (his first: Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll), after eight years of marriage, four children; in Hollywood.

Died. General Raymond-Francis Duval, 60, commander in chief of French forces in Morocco since 1950; in the crash of his Piper liaison plane; near Kasba-Tadla, Morocco (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Olin Downes, 69, chief music critic of the New York Times since 1924, author (Ten Operatic Masterpieces) and lecturer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Henry Warren Goddard, 79, retired U.S. judge, who was appointed by President Harding to New York's Southern District bench in 1923, presided over more than 1,000 cases in 31 years, including the second perjury trial of Alger Hiss in 1949-50; of a heart attack; on a golf course in Madison, Conn.

Died. Hermann Roechling, 82, head of the Roechling Iron and Steel Works in Voelklingen through World Wars I and II, sometime Nazi industrial boss of the Saar; in Mannheim, Germany. The first industrialist to be convicted of waging aggressive war (1948), Roechling had his seven-year sentence boosted to ten by a French appeals court, was later released in 1951, and barred with his family from entering the Saar or his factories, now French-run.

Died. Harry Leslie Chorlton, 85, artist and engraver who designed the Great Seal of the U.S. on the one-dollar bill, as well as a 3-c- stamp, Treasury seals, and U.S. coat of arms; of pneumonia; in Altadena, Calif.

Died. Charles P. Berkey, 88, topflight U.S. geologist, Columbia University's Newberry professor emeritus of geology since 1941, expert consultant in the building of Hoover and Grand Coulee Dams and of Manhattan bridges and tunnels, chief geologist in the 1925 Gobi expedition of the American Museum of Natural History; in Palisade, N.J.

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