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Milestones, Jan. 13, 1958

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Born. To Richard Herrick, 26, first human to receive a successfully transplanted kidney (from his identical twin Ronald—TIME, Jan. 3, 1955), and Clara Burta Herrick, 27, a nurse who attended him at Boston’s Peter Bent Brigham Hospital: a daughter, their first child; in Worcester, Mass. Name: Marjorie Helen. Weight: 8 Ibs. 8 oz.

Married. Richard Adler, 34, Broadway tunesmith, co-author (with the late Jerry Ross) of music and lyrics for the hit shows, The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees; and British Actress Sally Ann Howes, 27, who next month succeeds Julie Andrews as Eliza in My Fair Lady; both for the second time; in Arlington, Va.

Married. Helmut Dantine. 39, Austrian-born cinemactor (War and Peace); and Nicola Mae Schenck, 24, daughter of Cinemagnate (Loews, Inc.) Nicholas M. Schenck; he for the second time, she for the first; in Port Washington, N.Y.

Married. Kwame Nkrumah, 48, U.S.-educated Prime Minister of Ghana, perennial bachelor (“Every woman in the Gold Coast is my bride”) who kept his vow to remain unmarried until his country achieved independence: and Fathia Halim Ritzk, about 26, a Cairo university graduate; in Accra, Ghana.

Died. Dr. Douglas McGlashan Kelley, 45, dynamic, imaginative professor of criminology at the University of California, chief psychiatrist during the Nazi war crimes trial: by his own hand (a dose of potassium cyanide); in Berkeley. Calif. Psychiatrist Kelley (then a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel) interviewed the 22 top-ranking Nazis before the trial, authored (in 1947) a controversial study of his findings (22 Cells in Nuremberg).

Died. Howard Rushmore, 45, sometime (1936-39) film critic for the Communist Daily Worker, longtime (1939-54) Red-hunting reporter for the New York Journal-American, ex-editor of scandal-pandering Confidential; by his own hand (pistol), after killing his estranged second wife Frances, 37, in a Manhattan taxi. Big (6 ft. 4 in.), brooding Reporter Rushmore, “Tenth Generation American,” joined the Communist Party in 1933, quit after the Worker rejected his off-the-line review of Gone With the Wind, soon became a nationally bylined Hearst exposé specialist. A special investigator for the late Senator McCarthy, Rushmore testified before House committees as an “expert witness” on Communism, earned the Wisconsin Senator’s praise as “one of our outstanding Americans at this time.” After a much-publicized feud with Lawyer Roy Cohn, Pundit George Sokolsky and other pro-Joes, Rushmore was fired by the Hearst press “for economy reasons,” signed on with Confidential, resigned as editor before testifying against Confidential in the Hollywood libel trials (TIME, Aug. 26), before his death was debt-haunted, hopefully trying for an assignment from the Police Gazette.

Died. Air Chief Marshal (ret.) Sir John Nelson Boothman, 56, winner of the last Schneider Trophy air race (in 1931) by flying at 340.08 m.p.h. (then a record speed) in a Supermarine 56B, director during World War II of photo-reconnaissance for the RAF Coastal Command; in Stanmore, England.

Died. Edward Weston, 71, painstaking camera craftsman, one of the world’s topflight creative photographers; of Parkinson’s disease; in Carmel Highlands, Calif. At 37, Weston abandoned his Los Angeles portrait studio, moved to Mexico where he worked with Painters Diego Rivera and José Orozco, in 1926 returned to California, began a series of precise, sharply composed nature studies that made him famous, won (in 1937) the first Guggenheim fellowship ever given to a photographer. Weston used little equipment, almost never retouched or cropped his clear, spare negatives, cautiously refused until 1947 to use color film, but when he did (LIFE, Nov. 25, 1957) produced some of the finest pictures of his career.

Died. John Anderson, 75, 1st Viscount Waverley of Westdean, stiff-necked first Home Secretary in Winston Churchill’s wartime Cabinet, after whom Britons named their tiny, corrugated-iron, backyard air-raid shelters (“Anderson Shelters”), later (1943-45) Chancellor of the Exchequer, who represented Britain at the 1944 Bretton Woods monetary conference; of bronchial pneumonia; in London.

Died. Walter Carey Lindley, 77, crusty, scholarly federal judge (for 36 years), since 1949 a member of the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; in Danville, Ill. Appointed a district judge in 1922, Republican Lindley in 1939 imposed $20,000 in fines and court costs of more than half a million on General Motors and three subsidiaries for antitrust violations, seven years later found the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. and subsidiaries guilty of conspiring to monopolize part of the nation’s food business.

Died. Dr. Sao-ke Alfred Sze, 80, Cornell-educated Chinese diplomat, twice (1921-29, 1933-37) China’s chief envoy to the U.S., in 1945 senior adviser to the Chinese delegation at the San Francisco United Nations conference; in Washington.

Died. Sir Alliott Verdon Roe, 80, British aviation pioneer who made his first flight (in a plane of his own design) in 1908, founded A. V. Roe & Co., Ltd., built the famed Avro bombers of World War I, later became president of Saunders-Roe, Ltd., maker of Saro Flying Boats and helicopters; in Portsmouth, England.

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