Monday, May. 16, 1960
Married. Britain's Princess Margaret, 29, and Society Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, 30; in London (see FOREIGN NEWS).
Divorced. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 61, sometime newspaperman and author, who last year in his twelfth nonfiction book (Man of the World: My Life on Five Continents) listed F.D.R. as "the only person in our social group who took me seriously"; by Ann Bernadette Needham, 28, his sixth wife and former secretary; after three years, no children; in Reno.
Died. Harvey Samuel Firestone III, 30, an heir and only son of Board Chairman Harvey S. Firestone Jr. of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; of a fall (ruled suicide by a Cuban judge ) from the 20th floor of the Havana Hilton Hotel. A spastic cerebral palsy victim, Firestone graduated from law school last year, had planned to practice in St. Petersburg, where he and his wife and daughter made their home.
Died. Brigadier General John Reed Kilpatrick, 70, longtime (1933-55) showman-president of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden; of cancer; in Manhattan. A Yale football great and All America ('09-'10), Kilpatrick was on the AEF general staff in World War I, commander of the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation in World War II, won a proxy fight for control of the languishing Garden in 1935.
Died. Colonel Henry Breckinridge, 73, onetime (1913-16) Assistant Secretary of War, markedly independent Democrat and Manhattan lawyer, who was Charles A. Lindbergh's counsel and unsuccessful intermediary after the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Leaving Kentucky at 27 to join Woodrow Wilson's Administration. Breckinridge fought hard to improve the pitifully weak U.S. Army, resigned when he felt that he had failed, and subsequently saw action in France during World War I. Later, he broke ranks to run against F.D.R. in four presidential state primaries in 1936, as a protest against the New Deal.
Died. Marion Edwards Park, 84, the third president (1922-42) of high-ranking Bryn Mawr College, who did much to liberalize the rigid curriculum by permitting more electives, in 1926 daringly urged her graduates to seek a career--for a year, at least; of arteriosclerotic heart disease; in Plymouth, Mass.
Died. Charles Holden, 84, busy British architect whose solid, conservative designs left his imprint throughout London (the handsome London Transport office building, the towering London University buildings, Piccadilly Circus subway station) and in scores of impressive World War I memorials scattered about Britain and France; in London.
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