Monday, Jun. 22, 1953

Married. Sara Delano Roosevelt, 21, socialite millionheiress granddaughter of the late F.D.R.; and Anthony di Bonaventura, 23, pianist son of an immigrant Manhattan barber; in a small church ceremony on New York's lower East Side (see NEWS IN PICTURES).

Divorced. Randolph Adolphus ("Randy") Turpin, 25, Britain's contender for the world middleweight championship; by Mary Theresa Turpin, 26; after six years of marriage, one son; in Leamington, England.

Died. Michel Licht, 59, Russia-born Yiddish poet who translated the works of his contemporaries (T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound); of a heart attack; in New York City.

Died. Douglas Southall Freeman, 67, Pulitzer Prizewinning historian, authority on the Confederacy and its generals, longtime (1915-49) editor of the Richmond News Leader; of a heart attack; in Richmond. Son of a Confederate veteran, Editor Freeman rigidly scheduled every minute of his 17-hour working day ("Time is irreplaceable"), ran his newspaper like a tidewater plantation, breezed through two daily radio broadcasts and more than 100 lectures a year, kept working on scholarly, detailed biographies of his favorite Southerners. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his four-volume life of Lee in 1935, Historian Freeman brilliantly analyzed Confederate failure and success in Lee's Lieutenants. A friend of U.S. World War II military leaders, he was an early admirer of General Eisenhower, who called Freeman "the first man . . . who ever got me to thinking seriously about a possible political career." When death came, Douglas Freeman, editor emeritus of the News Leader, was busy completing the sixth massive volume of his definitive George Washington: A Biography.

Died. Sir Godfrey Tearle, 68, veteran English Shakespearean actor who last appeared in the U.S. with Katharine Cornell in Antony and Cleopatra (1947), and whose striking resemblance to the late F.D.R. brought him the role of the wartime President in MGM's 1947 A-bomb epic, The Beginning or the End; of cardiac asthma; in, London.

Died. Fred Darling, 69, one of Britain's greatest racehorse trainers, whose Beckhampton stables produced eight Epsom Derby winners, including this year's Pinza (TIME, June 15); of a lung hemorrhage; in Beckhampton, England.

Died. Charles Winter Wood, 82, Negro teacher and actor who won critical applause for his brief portrayal of De Lawd in The Green Pastures (1935) following the fatal illness of the role's famed creator, Richard Berry Harrison; in New York City.

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