--- description: Married. Ingemar Johansson. 29, dimpled former world heavyweight boxing champion; and Birgit Lundgren. 25, his right-hand gal since 1954 and official fiancee since 1959; he for the second time, she... title: Milestones: May 11, 1962 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Milestones: May 11, 1962 by [TIME](/author/time/) May 11, 1962 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) May 11, 1962 4:00 AM CUT Married. Ingemar Johansson. 29, dimpled former world heavyweight boxing champion; and Birgit Lundgren. 25, his right-hand gal since 1954 and official fiancee since 1959; he for the second time, she for the first; in Stockholm. Married. Tony Richardson, 33\. gangling director of neorealist stage (Look Back in Anger) and screen (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning); and West End Actress Vanessa Redgrave. 25, Actor Sir Michael’s willowy daughter; in London’s Hammersmith Register Office. Married. Bess Myerson. 37\. TV mistress of ceremonies. Miss America of 1945; and Manhattan Lawyer Arnold Grant. 54\. razor-sharp counsel for filmdom and onetime RKO board chairman; both for the second time; in Manhattan. Died. Frank Wilson Braden. 76\. cigar-puffing circus press agent, a walking, talking thesaurus of big-top ballyhoo to whom clowns were not clowns but rather “red-nosed, chalk-faced worshipers of the bluebird of happiness.” who variously trumpeted the thrills of the Gentry. Sells-Floto, Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey, and Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers circuses for half a century; of pneumonia; in Providence. R.I. Died. Harry Guy Bartholomew. 78\. longtime editor of the London Daily Mirror, a stout Fleet Street lord who held British journalism “too niminy piminy” and so transformed a dowager’s daily into the world’s first picture tabloid and still largest daily newspaper (circ. 4,593,263) by a blend of strident headlines (on Dunkirk’s evacuation: BLOODY MARVELLOUS). cartoon strips and pro-Labor politics; of heart disease; in Camberley, England. Died. Walter Phelps Hall, 77\. Dodge professor emeritus of history at Princeton, a heartily unorthodox (drenched by a cloudburst once, he taught in his underwear) modern history teacher who. despite perversely scheduling his classes for 7:40 a.m.. ran the most popular elective in the 39 years of his tenure; of a heart attack; in Austin, Tex. Died. Major General Ralph Emerson Truman. 81, U.S.N.G. (ret.), testy first cousin of Harry, a onetime Spanish-American War corporal and World War I captain who, as an ardent week-end warrior, never forgave the Regular Army for relieving his command of the 35th Division, a Missouri-Kansas National Guard outfit he helped form, on the eve of World Wrar II; of a heart attack; in Kansas City, Mo. Died. Helen Dortch Longstreet. 99, spry widow of Confederate General James Longstreet, a Georgia belle who at 80 became a World War II “Riveting Rosie”; of a heart attack; in Georgia. Milestones: May 11, 1962 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6872497/milestones-may-11-1962/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6872497/milestones-may-11-1962/"},"headline":"Milestones: May 11, 1962","datePublished":"1962-05-11T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-13T22:17:48.993Z","description":"Married. Ingemar Johansson. 29, dimpled former world heavyweight boxing champion; and Birgit Lundgren. 25, his right-hand gal since 1954 and official fiancee since 1959; he for the second time, she...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6872497/milestones-may-11-1962/","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/6872497/milestones-may-11-1962/","name":"Milestones: May 11, 1962"}}]}] ```