Friday, Jan. 12, 1962
Married. Tenley Albright, 26, shapely winner of two world's figure skating championships and the 1956 Olympic crown, now a resident in surgery at the Beverly (Mass.) Hospital; and Tudor Gardiner, 43, son of a former Maine Governor and summa cum laude graduate in President Kennedy's Harvard class who abandoned the bar to work for a Ph.D. in classical philology; she for the first time, he for the second; in Boston.
Died. Paul Mulholland Butler, 56, shrewd, hot-tempered chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1954 to 1960, whose vitriolic attacks on the Republican Party and sharp criticism of his own party's leadership kept him in a constant swirl of controversy; of a heart attack; in Washington. A party wheelhorse in Indiana and Stevenson backer before taking the national chairmanship over Harry Truman's bitter opposition, he provoked Southern Democrats with open criticism of their civil rights stand, attacked Lyndon Johnson and the late Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn for "moving too slowly toward a positive legislative program," had his last good scrap in 1960 when Truman accused him of trying to rig the Democratic Convention for Kennedy.
Died. Benjamin Franklin Fairless, 71, fast-moving boss of giant U.S. Steel for nearly 20 years, who substituted a candid personal charm for the rough flamboyance of an earlier generation of steelmakers; of pleurisy complicated by uremia; in Ligonier, Pa. Born the son of an immigrant Welsh coal miner, he got his first taste of capitalism as a newsboy, worked his way to an engineering degree, climbed rapidly with common-sense solutions to production problems and a knack for mediating high-level disputes. As president of U.S. Steel from 1938 to 1953 and board chairman from 1952 to 1955, he mellowed Big Steel's attitude to organized labor, increased U.S. Steel's massive capacity by nearly 35% while effectively defending bigness in steel to become known to a generation as "Mr. Steel."
Died. Harold Lee ("Jerry") Giesler, 77, canny counsel for two generations of Hollywood celebrities in distress, whose courtroom histrionics won him fame as "The Magnificent Mouthpiece"; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills (see SHOW BUSINESS).
Died. Faris el Khouri, 84, voluble elder statesman of Syria who entered politics as a Deputy in the Ottoman Parliament in 1914 and despite repeated deportations for revolutionary activity fought for Syrian independence, served Syria four times as Premier, between 1944 and 1955, and headed his country's delegation to the United Nations, where he was Security Council president, led the bitter Arab opposition to an independent, Zionist Israel; after a long illness; in Damascus.
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