Friday, Jan. 25, 1963
Married. Valery Brumel, 20, Russia's world record holder in the high jump (7 ft. 5 1/4 in.); and Marina Larionova, 20, blonde gymnast with the title of Master of Sport; in Moscow.
Divorced. By Francis Gary Powers, 33, U-2 pilot downed over Russia in May 1960: Barbara Powers, 28; on grounds of cruelty and habitual drunkenness; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Milledgeville, Ga.
Died. Wolfgang Doering, 43, No. 2 man in West Germany's Free Democratic Party, a pugnacious politician whose drumfire attacks on the government for repression of Der Spiegel magazine caused last December's "chancellorship crisis"; of a heart attack; in Duesseldorf.
Died. Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell, 56, leader of Britain's Labor Party since 1955; of a virus infection; in London (see THE WORLD).
Died. Morgan Walter Phillips, 60, general secretary of Britain's Labor Party from 1944 to 1961, a onetime Welsh coal miner whose skill as a labor organizer helped bring about Labor's war-end election victory in 1945; of heart disease complicated by ascites; in London.
Died. Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio, 60, first President of the new African nation of Togo; by assassination; in Lome, Togo (see THE WORLD).
Died. Gustav Regler, 64, quixotic German-born intellectual and onetime ardent Communist, who fought in the 12th International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, was disenchanted by the 1939 Soviet-Nazi nonaggression pact and became a passionate antiCommunist; of a stroke; in New Delhi. This month he traveled to India to form a new international brigade to fight the Red Chinese.
Died. Thomas Leo Kennedy, 75, president of the United Mine Workers of America since 1960, successor to John L. Lewis, now 82, as head of the huge, influential union, an anthracite miner who went to work at the age of 12, grew up in the pits as did Lewis, but displayed few of the old firebrand's terrible-tempered mannerisms, earning a reputation as a diplomatic negotiator; after a long illness; in Hazleton, Pa.
Died. Edward Steward Pridham, 81, co-founder (in 1911) and engineering genius behind the Magnavox Co., which rose from rude beginnings in a Napa Valley farmhouse to today's $200 million-a-year electronics firm, a physicist whose pioneering in sound led to many Magnavox inventions, among them the first electrodynamic loudspeaker, public-address system, and radio-phonograph; of a heart attack; in Oakland, Calif.
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