Friday, Dec. 11, 1964
Married. John Crosby, 52, the New York Herald Tribune's longtime (1946-60), splenetic radio-TV columnist, now its London-based girl-watcher, social essayist and sporadic political pundit; and Katharine Wood, 26, former fashion editor of Edinburgh's staid Scotsman; he for the second time; in London.
Divorced. Anthony Quinn, 48, cinemactor (Requiem for a Heavyweight, Barabbas); and Katherine De Mille Quinn, 51, adopted daughter of the late Cecil B.; in a double decree awarded on grounds of mutual incompatibility, and by reason of his eagerness to "do right by my two little boys"--the two boys by his Italian girl friend, Jolanda Addolori, 29, whom he now hopes to marry; after 27 years of marriage, four children; in Juarez, Mexico.
Died. Bobby Marshman, 28, cool, articulate racing driver who had a 27-sec. lead in the early laps of the Indianapolis 500 last May when he was forced out by mechanical difficulties, stoically predicted: "I'll get lucky one day--just you wait and see"; of burns suffered two weeks ago on a Phoenix test track when his Lotus-Ford crashed at 115 m.p.h. and exploded; in San Antonio.
Died. William Pels, 48, wry, worldly president of ultra-progressive Bennington College for girls since 1957, who enthusiastically supported such famed Bennington trademarks as the nine-week semester of outside work, the dawn curfew for girls and 6 p.m. quitting time for boys visiting in dormitory rooms, explaining to distraught mothers and skeptical colleagues: "If regulations are too strict, you run your students into automobiles and motels"; of cancer; in Manhattan.
Died. Arkady Aleksandrovich Sobolev, 61, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister and longtime (1955-60) delegate to the U.N. who never banged a shoe or threw phony fits but achieved dubious fame in 1956 when he pooh-poohed the Hungarian uprising as a conspiracy among "fascist counterrevolutionaries"; after a long illness; in Moscow.
Died. Sam Stept, 67, composer of such Tin Panalities as Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone and I'II Always Be in Love with You, but best remembered for his World War II smasheroo, Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree; of a stroke; in Los Angeles.
Died. John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, 72, irascible expatriate British scientist who demonstrated that he was his own best guinea pig; of cancer; in Bhubaneswar, India (see SCIENCE).
Died. Joseph Morrell Dodge, 74, Detroit banker and a top U.S. economic troubleshooter; of complications following a heart attack; in Detroit. An unbending advocate of sound money and tight credit, Joe Dodge came to the attention of the White House in the early 1940s after he managed to convert a Depression casualty into the prosperous Detroit Bank & Trust Co. (present assets: $1.2 billion). Called upon to try his fiscal therapy on the inflation-plagued economies of postwar Germany and Japan, he became one of the chief architects of their phenomenal booms by counseling devalued currency and balanced budgets. Then as Eisenhower's budget director through 1954, Dodge performed deft surgery on the U.S. budget, whittling almost $7 billion from the deficit left by Truman and making possible the $1.6 billion surplus in 1956.
Died. Alberto Tarchiani, 79, Italy's Ambassador to the U.S. from 1945 to 1955, when he rallied U.S. moral and monetary support for Italy's new republic; an early, outspoken anti-Fascist who, as editor of Milan's influential Corriere della Sera in the early 1920s, and later as an indefatigable agitator exiled in Paris, was so unrelenting a foe of Mussolini's that he eventually found himself near the top of Il Duce's must-kill list; in Rome.
Died. Dr. Sidney Haas, 94, Manhattan pediatrician who in the early 1920s found cures for two of childhood's most troublesome ailments, discovering that minuscule doses of highly poisonous atropine would curb colic among infants (it is now also used by ulcer patients), and that a year-long diet of bananas would completely rehabilitate sufferers from celiac disease, which causes such acute diarrhea that one-fourth of its victims used to die from malnutrition; in Orange, N.J.
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