Monday, Apr. 01, 1957
Born. To Don Murray, 27, cowboy hero opposite Marilyn Monroe in Bus Stop, and Actress Hope Lange (the teenage waitress in Bus Stop), 22: a son, their first child; in Hollywood. Name: Christopher Paton. Weight: 7 Ibs. 6 1/2 oz.
Born. To Norman Mailer, 34. novelist-chronicler of American sexual and other frustrations (The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park), and second wife Adele, 31: a daughter, their second child; in Manhattan. Name: Danielle Leslie. Weight: 8 1/2lbs.
Born. To Jerome Hines (real name: Heinz), 35, handsome, towering (6 ft. 6 1/2 in.) Metropolitan Opera basso, and Italian-born Soprano Lucia Evangelista, 34: their third child, third son; in Newark. Name: John Matthew. Weight: 7 Ibs. 2 oz.
Married. Betty Field, 39, actress of stage (Dream Girl) and screen (Of Mice and Men); and Edwin J. Lukas, 55, lawyer; she for the second time (her first: Playwright Elmer Rice), he for the third; in Manhattan.
Marriage Revealed. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 44, multimillionaire racehorse breeder (Native Dancer, Social Outcast) ; and Jean Cudahy Harvey, 20, of the railroad-restaurant and meat-packing families; he for the third time, she for the first; on March 12, in Mexico City.
Died. Tom Barratt, 59, Scotland Yard's chief superintendent and senior detective, who hunted down some of Britain's most shuddery murderers (including John Christie, who killed at least seven women and buried them around the house); of lung cancer; in London.
Died. Burton Rascoe. 64, critic, editor, author (Titans of Literature, Before I Forget), compiler (1924-28) of the literary gossip column "A Bookman's Daybook," at one time syndicated to 400 newspapers, who was credited with discovering James Branch Cabell and touting, before they were fully recognized, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson and Carl Sandburg; in Manhattan.
Died. Dr. Henry Ernest Sigerist, 65, longtime advocate of socialized medicine in the U.S., medical historian (TIME, March 10, 1947), and former director of the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine (1932-47), who retired to write an eight-volume History of Medicine, finished only one; of a stroke; in the Swiss Alpine village of Pura, Ticino, near the Italian frontier.
Died. Charles Kay-Ogden, 68, British editor and semanticist, originator of "Basic English," a functional body of only 850 words, which he believed were enough for all ordinary communication; in London.
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