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Married. Ralph Vaughan Williams, 80 dean of Britain's composers (Sinofonia Antartica, Pilgrim's Progress); and Mrs. Ursula Wood, fortyish, widow-writer; both for the second time (his first wife died at 80 in 1951); in London...
Died. Lolita Sheldon Armour, 83, wealthy widow of Meat Packer J. Ogden Armour (son of Packing House Founder P. D. Armour); in Lake Forest, Ill. A queen of Chicago society through World War I, she fell on hard times as the collapse of the top-heavy meat market at war's end began melting away her husband's $150 million Armour-plated fortune. When he died in 1927, she inherited debts that ate up her personal fortune, forced her to move from sumptuous 846-acre "Mellody Farm" (now the site of Lake Forest Academy) to a modest Chicago...
...with an air of despondency, such as "Woebetide" . . . They ought not to be .. . . frivolous . . . After all, the world is wide, and intelligent thought will readily supply . . . well-sounding names which do not suggest the character of an operation or disparage it in any way and do not enable some widow or mother to say that her son was killed in an operation called "Bunnyhug" or "Ballyhoo...
Married. Dulcie Hofmann Steinhardt, fiftyish, widow of Laurence A. Steinhardt, onetime (1939-41) troubleshooting U.S. Ambassador to Russia who was killed in the crash of an embassy plane while Ambassador to Canada in 1950; and Air Force Major General Lucas V. Beau, 57, national commander of the Civil Air Patrol and wartime commanding general of the Mediterranean Air Transport Service in Africa and Italy; both for the second time; in Rockville Centre...
Died. Nila Mack, 62, for 23 years writer-producer-director of the Peabody Award-winning children's program Lets Pretend (CBS's oldest continuous dramatic show); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Blonde, childless Widow Mack's Saturday fairy-tale program espoused courtesy and kindness, has long been something of an anachronism on air waves full of G-men, spacemen and cowboy mayhem, yet continues to draw 500-odd letters a week...