Friday, Sep. 15, 1961
Born. To Harry Belafonte, 34, stormy king of folk singers, and Julie Robinson, 32, his ex-dancer second wife: their second child, first daughter; in Manhattan.
Married. William McCormick Blair Jr., 44, former law partner of Adlai Stevenson, now serving as U.S. Ambassador to Denmark; and Catherine ("Deeda") Gerlach, 29, a fellow Chicago socialite; he for the first time, she for the second; outside Copenhagen at Frederiksborg Castle, which was packed with the flower of U.S. Democracy, headed by the President's mother. Mrs. Joseph Kennedy.
Married. Jean Kerr McCarthy, 36, widow of the late Senator from Wisconsin; and G. Joseph Minetti, 53, Brooklyn Democrat appointed to the Civil Aeronautics Board in 1956; both for the second time: in Washington's St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Cathedral, scene of the McCarthy wedding eight years ago.
Died. Brigadier Joseph Michel, 44, Sandhurst-trained Ghanaian army officer who. the day before his death, had been named chief of staff of U.N. forces in the Congo: of injuries following a plane crash; in Kintampo, Ghana.
Died. Robert Ellsworth Gross, 64, intuitive titan of the U.S. aircraft industry, an unmechanical, piano-playing Harvardman (class of '19) who made his first million by the age of 30, blew it manufacturing sport seaplanes, but in 1932 plunked down $40,000 for bankrupt Lockheed Aircraft, which he proceeded to build into the nation's 28th biggest industrial corporation, with 1960 gross sales of $1,332,289,000; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. As chairman and moving spirit of giant Lockheed. Bostonian Gross equipped the armed forces with aircraft and weapons ranging from the P-38 and the Constellation to the Polaris missile, also furnished the U.S. with its most famed cold war intelligence tool: the U2.
Died. Lawrence Peter Fisher, 72, high-living, art-fancying member of the "Body by Fisher" dynasty who. as vice president of General Motors after Fisher's absorption by G.M.. fathered the now defunct La Salle and the nation's first 16-cylinder car. the 1930 Cadillac V16: of a circulatory failure: in Detroit.
Died. Admiral DeWitt Clinton Ramsey, 72, vintage naval aviator who bossed the Bureau of Aeronautics during World War II, served as Vice Chief of Naval Operations from 1946 to 1948; of Parkinson's disease: in Philadelphia.
Died. Charles Dunbar Burgess King, 86, President of Liberia from 1920 to 1930, who resigned under fire when slave-running operations were uncovered in the African republic founded by freed U.S. slaves; after a long illness; in Monrovia.
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