Friday, Oct. 13, 1961

Born. To Willy Brandt, 47, West Berlin's scrappy mayor, while he was visiting New York City to receive the annual Freedom House Award, and his Norwegian wife, the former Rut Hansen, 41: a third son; in Berlin.

Died. David Beresford Pratt, 54, wealthy, English-born Transvaal farmer and would-be assassin who in April 1960 fired two bullets into the head of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd (who recovered), was later declared by a court to be "unfit" to stand trial; by his own hand (strangulation with a bed sheet); in a Bloemfontein, South Africa, mental institution.

Died. Cayetano Ordonez, 57, one of Spain's outstanding matadors in the 1920s and the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway's stalwart hero, Pedro Romero, in The Sun Also Rises, who sired a family of five bullfighting sons, including Bull Slayer Numero Una Antonio Ordonez, whose suspenseful competition with Luis Miguel Dominguin was chronicled by late Aficionado Hemingway in The Dangerous Summer; of pneumonia; in Madrid.

Died. Archbishop Joseph Grosz, 73, acting head of the Hungarian Roman Catholic Church; of a heart attack; at Kalocsa, Hungary. Arrested in 1951, Archbishop Grosz "confessed" to assorted anti-Red crimes and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, but received amnesty shortly before the bloody Budapest revolt in 1956 that sent Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty into refuge at the U.S. legation.* Grosz was able to keep the church alive in Red Hungary only by obeying most regime directives, including an oath of allegiance to the Communist constitution.

Died. Angelo Petri, 78, French-born vintner who re-established the Petri winery (started by Papa Raffaello in the San Joaquin Valley in 1886). after Prohibition ended in 1933, and helped to make it one of the biggest U.S. wine-marketing organizations before retiring as board chairman of United Vintners, Inc. five years ago; after a long illness; in San Francisco.

Died. Max Weber, 80, Russian-born dean of U.S. modern art, who studied in the avant-garde art world of Paris at the turn of the century, was influenced by Cezanne and Matisse, returned to become the first U.S. modernist, working in every form from painting to sculpture; after a long illness; in Great Neck, N.Y. Weber believed that "science proves to the mind; art reveals the heart," in 1929 had the first one-man show in New York's Museum of Modern Art.

*Cardinal Mindszenty, considered Primate of Hungary by the Vatican, is still isolated in two-room quarters at the legation, where he reads, prays and takes a daily, half-hour stroll in the courtyard while Hungarian secret police keep a 24-hour watch outside.

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