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...Yorker last fall, all eyes were green in Manhattan's ad alley. "The Man in the Hathaway Shirt" depicted a white-shirted, debonair-looking fellow who was given a peculiar air of distinction by a black patch over his right eye. The ad was the inspiration of British-born David Ogilvy, 41, vice president of Manhattan's Hewitt, Ogilvy, Benson & Mather, Inc. He got the idea from pictures of ex-Ambassador Lewis Douglas, who has worn a patch ever since he lost the sight of one eye in a fishing accident. (The man in the ad is Baron...
Died. Rabbi Henry Cohen, 89, for 64 years spiritual leader of Galveston's Temple B'nai Israel, whom Woodrow Wilson called "the First Citizen of Texas"; in Houston. British-born Henry Cohen came to Galveston in 1888, soon became famous for scurrying through the streets and stopping to jot down on his long, white cuff ("my notebook") the names of those he must help, regardless of creed ("There is no such thing as Methodist mumps, Baptist domestic troubles, Presbyterian poverty or Catholic broken legs"). His interest in parole work was sparked by Author O. Henry, a onetime convict...
Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley and his 41-year-old British-born bride Dorothy May Kydd arrived in Europe aboard a U.S. Army transport plane for a combined good-will visit ("in the national interest." said the Defense Department) and a honeymoon trip. Among their first stops: Noordwijk-aan-Zee, The Netherlands, for the opening of the International Council of Christian Leadership. After they were saluted with a few bars of Here Comes the Bride, the 68-year-old Senator, filled with good will, beamed at the delegates and said, "There's life in the boy yet." Then...
Strike Up the Band (Marion MacPartland; Savoy). The British-born wife of Cornetist Jimmy MacPartland plays along clean, classical lines, with idiomatic jazz style, moments of wig-flipping rhythm...
Married. Senator Alexander Wiley, 67, of Wisconsin, ranking Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations and Judiciary Committees; and British-born Dorothy May Kydd, 41, secretary to Washington Attorney John F. Clagett; both for the second time; in Alexandria...