Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Kay Kendall, 33, bright, beautiful, promising screen comedienne (Genevieve, Les Girls), third wife (since 1957) of Actor Rex (My Fair Lady) Harrison; after a long battle, kept secret from their friends, against leukemia; in London...
...Battle Ground. Marine Shoup was born in Battle Ground, Ind. (pop. 640), so named because it was there, in 1811, that General William Henry Harrison defeated Tecumseh's Indians in the battle of Tippecanoe. A farmer's son, he worked his way through nearby DePauw University, graduated ('26) as an "A" student with an ROTC Army commission, switched to the Marines. He married his childhood sweetheart, Zola De Haven (they have two grown children), stood peacetime duty on a dozen posts from Peiping to Iceland. In World War II he saw combat on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Saipan...
Died. Dr. Russell Harrison Varian, 61, inventor (1937) with his brother Sigurd of the klystron, a radio tube operating at microwave frequencies that figured prominently in the development of World War II radar and later guided missiles, founder (1948) and board chairman of Varian Associates, a fast-rising, $20 million-a-year electronics firm; of a heart attack; aboard a cruise ship near Juneau, Alaska...
...Marshal Tito ("the ritziest looking dictator in the world"), Richard Nixon ("a neat line between the wigwag shapes of U.S. drape and the ludicrously tight togs of U.S. Ivy Leaguers"), durable Hoofer Fred Astaire ("one of the few Americans who can wear a suit of tails"), Cinemactor Rex Harrison ("the best British answer to the Italian look"), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. ("British taste and American imagination"), Plutocrat Nubar Gulbenkian ("one of the few millionaires who dress like millionaires...
...church leaders from 75 Reformed and Presbyterian churches, representing 45 million Protestants who acknowledge Calvin as their spiritual father. Dutch Reformed mingled with Hungarian Calvinist; delegates from churches in Poland, Rumania, Australia and Madagascar exchanged greetings with delegates from the U.S. and from the Church of Scotland. Said Dr. Harrison Ray Anderson, pastor of Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church: "The Reformist and Presbyterian churches are still the most international of the Protestant groups...