Monday, May. 04, 1953
Married. Mary Jane Soong, 23, Wellesley-educated daughter of Financier T. V. Soong, onetime (1945-47) Premier of Nationalist China, and niece of Mme. Chiang Kaishek; and Charles K. Eu, 27, Columbia University student; in Manhattan.
Married. The Sultan of Pahang, 48; and Habsah Binte Lebai Mat, 22, amusement-park dancing girl; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. The sports-loving Sultan, bound by Moslem law which limits a man to only four wives at a time, divorced wife No. 4 before marrying pretty Habsah.
Married. Abby Rockefeller Pardee, 49, society's "Golden Girl" of the 1920s, only daughter of John D. Rockefeller Jr.; and Manhattan Banker Jean Mauze, 50; she for the third time, he for the first; in Manhattan.
Marriage Revealed. Allen A. Zoll, 57, guiding spirit of the educator-baiting National Council for American Education and the defunct American Patriots, Inc. (listed as "subversive" by the U.S. Attorney General), who fought the appointment of Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court in 1939 on the ground that Frankfurter was a Jew; and Genevieve Egan Tillar, sixtyish, widow of millionaire Texas Oilman Benjamin J. Tillar; in Washington, D.C.
Married. General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, 66, retired Marine Corps commandant (1944-47), who led the Marines' 1942 assault on Guadalcanal; and Catherine Henson McDaniel, 49, nurse of his late wife; he for the second time, she for the third; in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Died. Nicholas ("Nicky the Greek") Zographos,* 66, famed as the world's greatest professional gambler; of cancer; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Jockey-sized Card Ace Zographos, who entertained royalty on his yacht, ran baccarat banks at Cannes in the winter and at Deauville in summer. Win or lose, Zographos played it deadpan. Once, the wife of an automobile tycoon reportedly held his hand while he dropped a small fortune at baccarat. His hand, she remarked, did not tremble. "No," said he, "but I turn somersaults when I go to bed at night."
Died. Grant Foreman, 83, historian of the American Indian and the West (A History of Oklahoma, Indians and Pioneers, and 13 other books); in Muskogee, Okla.
Died. Dr. Ferdinand Schaefer, 91, founder and conductor (until 1937) of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra; of a cerebral thrombosis; in Indianapolis.
*Not to be confused with any of the "Nicks the Greek" who have walked through the American gambling scene.
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