Monday, Oct. 17, 1955
Married. Frances Langford, 39, radio and film star; and Ralph Evinrude, 48, vice chairman of Outboard, Marine & Mfg. Co.; she for the second time, he for the third; aboard his 118-ft. yacht Chanticleer as it cruised in Long Island Sound.
Married. Lieut. General Sir Alexander Hood, 67, Governor of Bermuda from 1949 to April 1955; and Helen Winifred Wilkinson, 50; both for the second time; in Reno.
Died. Major General Julius Ochs Adler, 62, general manager of the New York Times, president and publisher of the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan. A nephew of the late great New York Times Publisher Adolph S. Ochs, Adler won the D.S.C. and Silver Star with Oakleaf Cluster for heroism in World War I. In World War II he was assistant Sixth Infantry Division commander in Australia and New Guinea, after the war became commander of the 77th Division (Reserve).
Died. Alice Joyce, 65, oldtime glamour queen of silent films (Beau Geste); of a heart ailment; in Hollywood.
Died. Frieda Hempel, 70, German-born Metropolitan Opera and concert soprano; of cancer; in Berlin. Famed for her repertory of about 70 roles, her command of lieder and her virtuosity (G-sharp above high C), Mme. Hempel was offered her choice of any of the three female leads in Der Rosenkavalier by Composer Richard Strauss, created the role of the Marschallin in the 1911 premiere in Berlin.
Died. Mother Mary Joseph, 72, founder (1912) and Mother General until 1947 of the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic, the U.S.'s largest (1,170) Roman Catholic women's missionary order (TIME, April 11); in Manhattan.
Died. Oscar Johnston, 75, longtime (1927-50) president of the British-owned Delta and Pine Land Company in Scott, Miss., one of the world's largest (38,000 acres) cotton plantations, member of the Democratic National Committee (1920-24); of pneumonia; in Greenville, Miss.
Died. Theodor Cardinal Innitzer. 79, Archbishop of Vienna, Roman Catholic Primate of Austria since 1932, who was rebuked (1938) by Pope Pius XI for trying to appease the Nazis; of a heart attack; in Vienna. Cardinal Innitzer had the swastika raised over Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral when the Nazis marched into Austria in March 1938, discovered too late that his go-it-soft policies did not save Austrian Catholicism.
Died. George Toland Cameron, 82, publisher since 1925 of the San Francisco Chronicle (circ. 166,800), topflight West Coast industrialist; in San Francisco.
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