Monday, Jul. 11, 1960
Born. To Philip Lang Crosby. 25, one of Bing's balladeer boys, and Sandra Jo Drummond, 21, onetime Las Vegas showgirl: their second child, first son, the Groaner's fourth grandchild (one adopted) ; in Los Angeles.
Marriage Revealed. Mamadou Dia.49, Premier of the Republic of Senegal and Vice President of the Federation of Mali; and Salaam Murad, 33, a Lebanese white schoolteacher; he for the second time, she for the first; in Beirut on June 15 in a proxy wedding (Dia's representative: Senegalese Finance Minister Mas Bokani).
Divorced. Franc,ois Sagan (born Quoirez), 25, France's slick novelist of disillusioned sex; and Publishing Executive Guy Schoeller, 44; after two years of marriage, no children; in Paris.
Died. Leon A. Swirbul, 62. a founder and president since 1946 of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., whose morale-boosting labor policies helped the company, with its Wildcat and Hellcat fighters, lead the industry in World War II combat-plane production; of pneumonia while ill with cancer; in Manhattan (see BUSINESS).
Died. Harry Pollitt. 69, a founder of the British Communist Party in 1920, who served as its general secretary from 1929 (except for a two-year downgrading following the 1939 Russo-German pact) until 1956, when, as a Stalinist, he was kicked upstairs to the party chairmanship; of a stroke; at sea off Australia.
Died. Gene Fowler. 70, flamboyant Boswell for flamboyant figures; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Fowler's Timberline (1933), a classic for sentimental journalists, told the story of the Denver Post and its rascally bosses, Fred Bonfils and Harry Tammen; The Great Mouthpiece was a lurid biography of a lurid, turn-of-the-century lawyer; and Good Night, Sweet Prince loyally and lovably concentrated as much on John Barrymore's peccadilloes as on his superb acting.
Died. Mathilda E'izabeth Frelinghuysen Davis Lodge, 85, widow of Poet George Cabot Lodge and the mother of U.S. Representative to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and U.S. Ambassador to Spain John Davis Lodge, whom she raised in the home of their grandfather, U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Sr.; after a long illness; in Washington, D.C.
Died. Lucy Madeira Wing. 87, founder in 1906 and headmistress for 51 years of suburban Washington's prim and academically rigorous Madeira School for girls, a New Dealer who hoped that well-supported public schools (maximum size of classes: 15) would eventually supersede her own "economic royalist" Madeira-type institution; after a stroke; in Washington, D.C.
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