--- description: Married. Teruko Pia Kurusu, 21, daughter of Japan's special "peace" envoy to Washington at the time of Pearl Harbor, and Frank White, 27, ex-U.S. Army recreation officer, now a... title: Milestones, Aug. 25, 1947 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Milestones, Aug. 25, 1947 by [TIME](/author/time/) Aug 25, 1947 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Aug 25, 1947 4:00 AM CUT Married. Teruko Pia Kurusu, 21, daughter of Japan’s special “peace” envoy to Washington at the time of Pearl Harbor, and Frank White, 27, ex-U.S. Army recreation officer, now a civilian employed by MacArthur’s headquarters; in Yokohama, in a ceremony attended by neither her father nor her New York-born Caucasian mother. Married. Serge Alexandrovitch Koussevitzky, 73, longtime conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and Olga Naumoff, 46, spinster niece of his second wife (who died in 1942), and his secretary for 18 years; near Lenox, Mass. Died. John Carl (“Jack”) Kriendler, 48, who in partnership with Charlie Berns ran a Greenwich Village speakeasy in the early ‘205, eventually moved up to better-heeled 52nd Street where Jack & Charlie’s “21” Club became world famed for serving elegant food & drink to Manhattan’s glossiest people; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Dieo!. Elliott Carr Cutler, 59, one of the nation’s top heart and brain surgeons, a wartime brigadier general, successor to the late, famed Harvey Gushing as Moseley Professor at Harvard Medical School; of cancer; in Brookline, Mass. Died. Pearl L. Bergoff, 72, tough, unlettered Michigan boy who grew up to be the nation’s most active strikebreaker; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Bergoff once offered management an expensive but efficient service: he would ship hired thugs to the scene of a strike, keep business moving with pate cracking and machine-gun fire until the union backed down. Driven out of business in 1936 by-federal legislation, Pearl retired, mellowed, announced last year: “. . . If I had my life to live over … I’d be for labor, I’d be another John L. Lewis.” Died. Prince Eugen of Sweden, 82, bachelor youngest brother of King Gustav V; of a heart attack; in Stockholm. The prince spent most of his unexciting life painting unexciting landscapes which decorate many a loyal Swedish public building. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6600452/milestones-aug-25-1947/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6600452/milestones-aug-25-1947/"},"headline":"Milestones, Aug. 25, 1947","datePublished":"1947-08-25T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-25T03:29:44.823Z","description":"Married. Teruko Pia Kurusu, 21, daughter of Japan's special \"peace\" envoy to Washington at the time of Pearl Harbor, and Frank White, 27, ex-U.S. Army recreation officer, now a...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6600452/milestones-aug-25-1947/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6600452/milestones-aug-25-1947/","name":"Milestones, Aug. 25, 1947"}}]}] ```