Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Povl Bang-Jensen, 50, Danish diplomat attached to the United Nations, who was fired from his job for "insubordination"; by his own hand (gunshot); in New York City (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).
Married. Dolores Del Rio, 54, durable, still beautiful Mexican-born cinemactress (What Price Glory?); and Lewis A. Riley Jr., 45, TV producer; she for the third time, he for the second; in Newark.
Died. Dwight Fiske, 67, nightclub raconteur-pianist, whose bawdy songs in free verse derided and titillated cafe society in the '20s and '30s, once caused the entire Albuquerque Rotary Club to walk out on him; in Manhattan. Fiske made pretentious women his special target (Queen Anne, Miss Elaine...
Died. Aaron Sapiro, 75, fiery lawyer from San Francisco, who promoted cooperatives in state after state, sued Henry Ford in 1927 for libeling the Jewish religion in his weekly newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, and settled for about $80,000, later became involved with Chicago gangsters; in Los Angeles.
Died. Rufus C. Holman, 82, Old Guard Republican Senator from Oregon who spent his one Senate term (1939-45) ranting against New Deal policies, foreign and domestic, lauded Hitler for destroying a conspiracy of "international bankers," in the course of a losing primary fight (1944) against Wayne Morse refuted a...