Friday, Sep. 25, 1964
Married. Michael Balfe Howard, 22, Yale senior, grandson of retired Newspaper Magnate Roy Howard; and Carter Harrison Bottjer, 21, fine arts major at Sarah Lawrence College; in Sudbury, Mass.
Married. King Constantine of the Hellenes, 24; and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, 18; in a Greek Orthodox ceremony; in Athens (see THE WORLD).
Died. Florence ("Big Fanny") Storgoff, 56, massive (240 Ibs.) leader of the Canadian Doukhobors' Sons of Freedom, a small (3,000 members) but fanatic religious sect that broke away from the more peaceable "Douks" after they emigrated from Russia in 1899, and is forever giving the authorities fits by squatting on government land, ignoring public schools and legalized marriage, and burning their homes and parading around naked whenever police try to enforce the law; of cancer; in Vancouver.
Died. Charles Douglas ("C.D.") Jack son, 62, publisher and public servant, senior vice president of Time Inc., managing director of TIME-LIFE International (1945-49), publisher of FORTUNE (1949-53) and LIFE (1960 to last March), spearhead of Radio Free Europe and Project HOPE, Eisenhower speechwriter and special assistant (he helped draft the Atoms for Peace proposal), U.S. delegate to the U.N. (1954) and, most recently, founder of the International Executive Service Committee, which he envisioned as a Peace Corps of businessmen; of cancer; in Manhattan.
Died. Dr. Alfred Blalock, 65, leading U.S. heart surgeon who teamed with his chief pediatrician, Helen Taussig, in 1944 to perform the first Blalock-Taussig "blue baby" operation, which has since restored to health an estimated 10,000 children born with congenital heart defects; of cancer; in Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was surgeon-in-chief from 1941 to last July. Until Blalock's operation, "blue babies" (so called because of their blue lips and finger tips) were considered incurable, suffered from such acute lack of oxygen in their bloodstreams that they either died shortly after birth or spent their lives as invalids.
Died. James Frank Dobie, 75, folklorist of the U.S. Southwest; of a heart attack; in Austin, Tex. He called himself a Texian, adding the i and defining it as "one of the old rocks of the state." That he was, spending his life slouching across the land in battered Stetson and rundown boots, collecting all the tales, true or tall, of oil and gold, sheriffs and outlaws, then spinning them out in humorously irreverent lectures as the University of Texas' "Professor Pancho" and weaving them into 21 books, of which Coronado's Children and The Mustangs were among the best known. He loved Texas as it was--not is--and when he said, "I damn sure would rather hear a coyote bark than anything I've heard on another man's radio," no one doubted his word.
Died. Lord Raglan, 79, British author and anthropologist, great-grandson of the man who ordered the charge of the Light Brigade and invented the slope-shouldered Raglan sleeve, himself a salty-tongued gadfly who in the course of nine lively volumes (Myth and Drama, How Came Civilization?) suggested, among other things, that Shakespeare was the least literate member of a sixman playwriting syndicate; of a heart attack; in Monmouthshire, England.
Died. Sean O'Casey, 84, grand and rebellious old man of Irish letters; of a heart attack; in Torquay, England. A blustery, self-proclaimed "guttersnipe who could jingle a few words together," O'Casey was a Protestant among Catholics, so savagely attacked what he considered the bullying clergy and bullheaded country folk during Ireland's 1916-21 uprising that enraged Dubliners stormed performances of his early--and most famous--plays, Juno and the Paycock, a portrayal of Dublin tenement life, and The Plough and the Stars, about the 1916 Sinn Fein Easter Week rebellion. By 1928 he was in England, still tilting at the church, now flirting with Communism, and forever filling his prose with such searing rhetoric and tumultuous Irish illogic that he began to feel, he once said, that life had left him "tattered and torn, like a man tossed by the cow with the crumpled horn, but still sparring for defense and a forward blow."
Died. Mark Charles Honeywell, 89, retired board chairman (1937-53) and one of the founders of Honeywell Inc., who in 1906 started an oil-heat company in his home town of Wabash, Ind., 20 years later merged with his biggest competitor, Minneapolis Heat Regulator Co., to form the major enterprise that has since gone beyond oil burners and thermostats to all manner of computers and space controls with annual sales of $650 million; in Wabash.
Died. Charles Graham, Ill, oldest onetime U.S. Negro slave, who "got freed when the rest was freed," on his 103rd birthday reflected that "slavery was inhumane, but not as torturous as some believe," and that his own longevity was due to two lifelong habits: "When you drink, don't drink with a crowd, and when you shovel, take it easy"; of cancer; in South Bend, Ind., where he moved from Mississippi in 1945.
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