Milestones, Sep. 20, 1954

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Married. Ensign William P. Hobby Jr., U.S.N.R., 22, son of Texas' ex-Governor William Hobby and Oveta Gulp Hobby, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; and Diana Stallings, 23, daughter of Playwright Laurence (What Price Glory) Stallings; in Blanche, N.C.

Married. Dr. Peter Lindstrom, 47, Pittsburgh brain surgeon and first husband of Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman; and Dr. Agnes J. Rovnanek, 26, Czech-born pediatrician; in Pittsburgh.

Died. Robert J. Minshall, 56, onetime Boeing Aircraft Co. vice president, principal designer of World War II's famed B-17 Flying Fortress and winner in 1940 of the Musick Memorial Trophy for his pioneering work on transoceanic clippers; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Shaker Heights, Ohio.

Died. Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher, 69, creator of the comic strip Mutt and Jeff; of cancer; in Manhattan. Starting in 1907 with a sports-page cartoon about a chinless horse-race tipster named Augustus Mutt, Fisher added runty, harebrained Jeff four months later, made a merry fortune (at his peak in the '20s he earned $300,000 a year) whirling them around on a ceaseless merry-go-round of fights, skulduggeries and amiable confusion.

Died. Chauncey McCormick, 69, millionaire grandson of William S. McCormick, one of the founders of the McCormick Reaper Co., and cousin of Publisher Robert R. McCormick (the Chicago Tribune); since 1944 president of the influential Art Institute of Chicago; of a heart ailment; in Bar Harbor, Me.

Died. Andre Derain, 74, one of the leading French painters of the 20th century; of injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile; in Garches, France. A member, with Rouault and Matisse, of the uninhibited Fauvist movement in Paris at the turn of the century, tall, simplicity-loving Artist Derain ("The great danger for art lies in an excess of culture") later dabbled with cubism, finally turned to a personalized style of calm, uncluttered elegance that put him among the world's most respected painters.

Died. Admiral Edward C. Kalbfus, U.S.N. ret., 76, twice (1934-36, 1939-42) president of the Naval War College, organizer in 1941 of the $100 million Newport Naval Base; of leukemia; in Newport, R.I.

Died. Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh, 78, schoolteacher mother of Charles A. Lindbergh, widow of onetime (1907-17) Minnesota Congressman Charles Augustus Lindbergh; after long illness; in Grosse Pointe Park, Mich.

Died. James A. (for Aloysius) Johnston, 79, longtime (1934-48) warden of Alcatraz prison; of a liver infection; in San Francisco. Scholarly Penologist Johnston tamed riotous San Quentin during his 1913-25 tenure, had to abandon "reconstructive" penology when he took over in 1934 as first warden of Alcatraz, which had been deliberately established as a fortress to hold the meanest mobsters in gangdom (Al Capone, "Machine Gun" Kelly).

Died. Glenn Scobey ("Pop") Warner, 83, one of the two most powerful forces in American football history (the other: Notre Dame's Knute Rockne), originator of the unbalanced line, the single wing, the double wing in his 45 years of coaching at Iowa State, Georgia, Carlisle, Pittsburgh, Cornell, Stanford, Temple (see SPORT).

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