Monday, Nov. 25, 1957
Born. To Steve Allen, 35, owl-eyed TV funnyman; and Jayne Meadows, 35, red-haired TV paneleer (I've Got a Secret): their first child (his fourth), a son; in Manhattan. Name: William Christopher. Weight: 8 lbs. 8 oz.
Born. To Yvonne de Carlo, 35, sultry brunette cinemadventuress and Robert Drew Morgan, 42, muscled Hollywood stunt man: their second child, second son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Michael Robert. Weight: 7 lbs. 15 oz.
Died. Moro Naba ("Master of the Earth"), 53, sword-waving, plume-wearing emperor of the warlike French West African Mossi tribe (some 1,700 members), whose government council seated both a minister of war and of defeat (on the grounds that victory needs no diplomatic skill but defeat does), and whose tribal tradition demanded that he titularly declare war on the neighboring Soussou tribe every Wednesday morning and allow himself to be "persuaded" by tribal elders to postpone the expedition; after a short illness; in Ouagadougou, French West Africa.
Died. Gerald B. (for Burton) Winrod, 57, big, bellicose self-styled "Reverend," race-baiting bigot, editor of the Defender, the monthly propaganda whip of his pseudo-religious organization, "The Defenders of the Christian Faith;" of pneumonia; in Wichita, Kans. A deep-voiced radiorator who flourished in the Father Coughlin-Huey Long era, Winrod thundered his rabid invective from his Wichita headquarters, clipped his mustache like Hitler's, lumped Presidents Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower as members of the "international Jewish banking fraternity" trying "to sovietize" the U.S.
Died. Antonin Zapotocky, 72, calculating President (since Klement Gottwald's death in 1953) of Czechoslovakia, onetime (1948-53) Prime Minister, gaunt old wheelhorse of the Czech Communist Party, and one of the architects of the 1948 bloodless coup that smashed Czech democracy and imposed Red rule; of a heart attack; in Prague. Stonecutter by training, Zapotocky was a longtime trade unionist and Parliamentary Deputy (1920-38, 1945-48), tenaciously survived jail terms. Nazi concentration camps and de-stalinization purges, but, for all his rise to power, remained in the shadows-primarily a backstage figure.
Died. Martin T. Lacey, 75 (less one day), iron-jawed, dent-nosed sparkplug (since 1903) of the New York labor front, kingpin Teamsters union leader who fought the Beck-Hoffa-Dio racketeers for his New York Teamsters' Joint Council 16 presidency but lost it to Hoffa's pal, John J. O'Rourke, last January; of a heart attack in his sleep; in Washington Township, N.J.
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