Friday, Oct. 18, 1963
Born. To Jordan's King Hussein, 28, and Muna al Hussein, 23, formerly Toni Gardiner, of Suffolk, England: a second child, second son; in Amman. Name: Prince Feisal, after Hussein's cousin, King Feisal of Iraq, murdered in 1958 by revolutionaries.
Born. To Richard (Pancho) Gonzales, 35, recently retired pro-tennis great, coach of the U.S. Davis Cup team, and Madelyn Darrow Gonzales, 28, Miss Rheingold of 1958: a third child, third daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif.
Born. To Jean Kerr, 40, millionairess playwright (Mary, Mary), and Walter Kerr, 50, New York Herald Tribune drama critic: their sixth child, first daughter; in Manhattan.
Married. June Allyson, 40, cinemactress (The Glenn Miller Story), widow of Actor Dick Powell: and Glenn Maxwell, 31, men's hair stylist to Hollywood's elite; in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Divorce Revealed. Theodore Chaikin Sorensen, 35, White House speechwriter and Presidential confidant: by Camilla Palmer Sorensen, 35: on grounds of "uninterrupted separation"; after 14 years of marriage, three children; in Fairfax County, Va. on Aug. 9. The Sorensens, both Unitarians, have lived apart since before Kennedy's inauguration, but the divorce was not discovered until last week, after Mrs. Sorensen, who had stayed in Washington, moved to Madison, Wis.
Died. Edith Piaf, 47, France's premiere chanteuse and petite (4 ft. 10 in., 90 lbs.) "sparrow of the streets"; of a hemorrhage of the spleen; in Paris (see THE WORLD).
Died. Gustaf Gruendgens, 63, Germany's most celebrated actor, producer and director, an elegant, arrogant Duesseldorfer who rose to fame in the 1920s as Hamlet and the mocking Mephistopheles of Faust, lost most of his friends when he became Hitler's chief of state theaters, yet proved so irreplaceable that after the war he was chosen to direct the state theaters of Duesseldorf (1947-54) and Hamburg (1955-63), making them the top German stages with a repertory of classics (Schiller, Ibsen) and moderns (Brecht, Eliot); of an accidental overdose of barbiturates; on a visit to Manila.
Died. Samuel Bayard Colgate, 65, president (1933-38) and chairman (1938-52) of Colgate-Palmolive Co., great-grandson of the toothpaste company's founder, who took over the top job when sales were sliding after a merger with soapmaker Palmolive-Peet n 1928, cut costs, and scrubbed up the business until, with profits on the rise, he was able to devote time to philanthropy, notably Colgate University, which changed its name in 1890 because of Colgate family endowments: of a heart attack: at his estate on Contentment Island, in Darien, Conn.
Died. Renato Bartoccini, 70, Italian archaeologist, curator of Rome's Villa Giulia, world's greatest Etruscan museum, who won renown with the 1924 discovery of Leptis Magna, Roman city in Libya, later unearthed the Etruscan cities Feronia and Vulci in central Italy; of a heart attack: in Rome.
Died. Alfred Joseph Fisher, 70, sixth-oldest of Detroit's seven automaking brothers, second to die this year, who joined the Fisher Body Co. in 1914, shortly after two elder brothers had founded it to produce the first all-weather auto body, became a top General Motors executive when the company was absorbed by G.M. in 1926; of pneumonia; in Detroit.
Died. Dr. George Guttman Ornstein, 71, chest specialist who, as medical director of Staten Island's Sea View Hospital from 1931 to 1955, tried dozens of drugs for tuberculosis, finally in 1952 directed the testing of two newly-developed isoniazids on 92 seemingly hopeless patients, saved every one, a breakthrough that put the doctor out of a job when Sea View and other TB hospitals closed for lack of patients; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.
Died. Jean Cocteau, 74, France's Jack-of-all-arts; of a heart attack, on hearing of Edith Piaf s death; in Milly-la-Foret, France (see THE WORLD).
Died. Anna Evangeline La Chappelle Clark, 85, widow of Montana Copper King William Andrews Clark, a Michigan doctor's daughter who became Clark's ward at the height of his fame, married him in 1901 after his first wife died (he was 62), moved into his $6,000,000 Fifth Avenue mansion (121 rooms, 31 baths), after his death in 1925 (leaving a $50 million estate) sold the house to spend much of her time in California, where she founded the Paganini Quartet and equipped it with Paganini's own Stradivariuses at a cost of $200,000; in Manhattan.
Died. Oscar Schwidetsky, 88, director of research for New Jersey's Becton, Dickinson & Co., manufacturers of medical supplies, who in 60 inventive years developed the elasticized Ace bandage, used the world over for sprains and varicose veins, the disposable morphine syringe carried in first aid kits, hypodermic needles that enable doctors to transfuse RH-factor babies through the umbilical vein: following a stroke; in Hackensack, N.J.
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