Friday, Jan. 08, 1965
Married. Gordon Peter Getty, 31, youngest of Billionaire J. Paul's four children, a sometime composer and poet; and Ann Gilbert, 23, tall, brunette salesgirl whom he met six weeks ago, shortly after he had told a friend he would "marry the next girl he took out more than twice"; in Las Vegas, Nev.
Married. Woolworth ("Woolie") Donahue, 51, Manhattan man about town, heir to a $15-odd million slice of the five-and-dime fortune; and Mary Hartline Carlson, 37, blonde and bouncy bandleader on TV's Super Circus in the mid-1950s; both for the third time; at Woolie's estate in Calverton, L.I.
Married. Janet Gaynor, 56, winner of Hollywood's first Oscar in 1928 for her performances in Seventh Heaven, Sunrise and Street Angel; and Paul Gregory, 44, producer (The Caine Mutiny, Court-Martial, Night of the Hunter); she for the second time, he for the first; in Las Vegas, Nev.
Died. Andres Soriano, 66, Philippine industrialist-financier who built a personal fortune estimated at $80 million, first as president of the family-owned San Miguel Brewery, then as chief stockholder of an ever-proliferating flock of businesses that included at one time or another the Philippine Air Lines, the Philippines Herald, and mining, fertilizer, electronics, engineering and insurance companies; of cancer; in Boston.
Died. Paul Gillet, 73, governor from 1950 to 1961 of Belgium's Societe Generale, the massive holding company that controls 60% of all Belgian industry, a shadowy figure so inaccessible (no published picture of him exists) that even Societe officials had difficulty getting to him, but who broke his usual silence in 1960 to argue against independence for the Congo, considering the Congolese "not ripe" for it; after a long illness; in Brussels.
Died. Claranel Strange McNamara, 78, mother of the Defense Secretary, who so valued the education typhoid kept her from completing that by the time young Robert started school she had force-read him, as she said, "as much literature as a normal 13-year-old knows"; of a stroke; in Palo Alto, Calif.
Died. Elsie May Bell Grosvenor, 86, last living child of Alexander Graham Bell, wife of Gilbert Grosvenor, board chairman of the National Geographic Society, who was never satisfied with being merely a relative to the famous, and won a reputation as a naturalist and geographer (while raising six children), traveling the globe by camel and canoe, elephant and helicopter, including a 22,000-mile trek through Africa at the age of 73; in Bethesda, Md.
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