Friday, Sep. 18, 1964
Born. To Mark Hatfield, 42, Governor of Oregon and Republican keynoter at San Francisco, and Antoinette Kuzmanich Hatfield, 34: their third child, second daughter; in Salem, Ore. Name: Theresa.
Married. Marshall Field III, 23, son of Chicago Newspaper Publisher Marshall Field Jr. (Sun Times, Daily News); and Joan Best Connelly, 20, Manhattan socialite; in Rumson, N.J., two months after Marshall Jr.'s third wedding.
Married. Anna Maria Alberghetti, 28, Italian-born actress (Lili in Carnival) and nightclub coloratura; and Claudio Guzman, 36, TV director (The Patty Duke Show); he for the second time; in Los Angeles.
Married. Princess Isabelle, 32, eldest daughter of French Pretender Comte de Paris; and Count Friedrich Carl Schoen-born-Buchheim, 26, heir to 12,000 acres of Austrian forest; in a civil ceremony, followed the next day by a nuptial Mass in the royal chapel of Dreux, France.
Divorced. Billy Rose, 65, bantam Broadway entrepreneur and biggest single A.T. &T. stockholder (160,000 shares worth $11 million); by Doris Warner Vidor, 48, heiress to Hollywood's Warner Bros, fortune; on grounds of mental cruelty; after six months of marriage (his fifth); in Reno.
Died. Jane Hadley Barkley, 52, widow of Alben, a comely St. Louis secretary who caught the Veep's fancy on a visit to Washington in 1949 (he was then 71, she 38), suddenly found herself swept up in one of the most popular and public courtships in history as her "Punkin" shuttled between his Washington desk and her St. Louis home until he won her hand four months later; of a heart attack; in Washington.
Died. Francisco San Tiago Dantas, 52, one of the leftist powers behind Brazil's recently deposed President Joao Goulart, a wealthy corporation lawyer who started out as a conservative but later veered left to latch onto Goulart's rising star, as his Foreign Minister in 1962 authored Brazil's hands-off policy on Castro, as his Finance Minister in 1963 worked the other side of the street by promising economic reforms in return for a U.S. loan, in 1964 was about to be blacklisted by the anti-Communist purgers when they relented because he was so gravely ill; of cancer; in Rio de Janeiro.
Died. Sakari Tuomioja, 53, Finnish ranker and U.N. diplomat who proved himself a savvy, soft-spoken trouble-hooter in Laos in 1959, was picked by U.N. Secretary-General U Thant last March to try mediating the Cyprus dispute; following a stroke on Aug. 16, just before he was ready to present his own peace proposal to the embattled Greek and Turkish Cypriots; in Helsinki.
Died. Lieut. General Robert Whitney Burns, 56, patron saint of all G.I.s, who in 1959, as commander of U.S. forces in Japan, recalled a homeward-bound airliner, personally removed a rank-pulling lieutenant colonel, his wife and four children, and placed back on board the six emergency-furloughed enlisted men "bumped" by the vacationing colonel; after a long illness; in San Antonio.
Died. Walter Brown, 59, longtime owner of the Boston Garden, Boston Bruins hockey team and Boston Celtics basketball team, who inherited control of the Garden upon the death of his father in 1937, made it pay for the first time by introducing the Ice Capades and the rodeo, put pro basketball across by buying the sputtering Celtics with his profits and helping guide them to seven championships in the last eight years; of a heart attack; in Hyannis, Mass.
Died. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 74, boss of the U.S. Communist Party since 1961; of a blood clot in the lung artery; in Moscow (see THE WORLD).
Died. Admiral Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu, 75, French military hero and Roman Catholic priest, who forsook the cloth to fight with De Gaulle in World War II, later became French High Commissioner to Indo-China, a post in which he so relentlessly pressed the fight against Communist guerrillas, scorning all talk of negotiation in Paris, that he was recalled in 1947, whereupon he quit public life in disgust and returned to his monk's habit; of a heart attack; in a monastery near Brest, France.
Died. William Geer, 88, inventor of new uses for rubber, a onetime B.F. Goodrich research vice president who retired to work on his own in 1925, at one time or another held 40 patents, among them the first successful aircraft deicer, thick strips of pulsating rubber that fitted over the leading edge of the wings and shook off storm-cloud ice as quickly as it formed, a device that after 30 years is still used on many prop-driven aircraft, but not on the big jets; after a long illness; in Ithaca, N.Y.
Died. Checkers, 12, Dick and Pat Nixon's black and white cocker spaniel, who at the age of three months got the most publicity of any dog since Fala when her master went on nationwide TV during the 1952 election campaign, explained that she was the only campaign gift (a fund of $18,000 was in question) that he had kept for his personal use; in Manhattan.
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