Friday, Mar. 26, 1965

Born. To Peggy Lennon, 26, second oldest of Lawrence Welk's four bubbly Lennon Sisters, and Dick Cathcart, 40, the champagne orchestra's lead trumpeter: a daughter, their first child; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Born. To Georg Adenauer, 33, Bonn notary public, youngest of former German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's four sons, and Ulla-Britta Adenauer, 31, his Swedish wife: a son, their third, thus making der Alte a grandfather for the 24th time; in Bonn.

Married. Kim Novak, 32, Hollywood's oft-courted, never terribly interested bachelor girl; and Richard Johnson, 37, British actor and her leading man in the forthcoming Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders; he for the second time; in a civil ceremony; in Aspen, Colo.

Died. Fouad Farouk El Awal, 45, deposed, unlamented King of Egypt; of a heart attack; in Rome (see THE WORLD).

Died. George Francis Hicks, 60, radio and TV announcer for NBC since the 1930s, best known for his stirring D-day description of the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, coolly broadcasting from the deck of the command ship A neon while under severe attack by Nazi bombers; of cancer; in Queens, N.Y.

Died. Quentin Reynolds, 62, journalist, war correspondent and author of 24 books (Dress Rehearsal, The Curtain Rises), many of them hero-studded accounts of World War II; of cancer; at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., following an emergency flight from Manila. Covering the war for Collier's, Reynolds poured his romantic Irish heart into vivid, highly personal combat reports from North Africa to Dieppe, winning high praise from such fans as Winston Churchill and such scorn from Columnist Westbrook Pegler that he won a $175,001 libel judgment from him.

Died. Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, 63, President and Communist leader of Rumania, the self-educated son of a metalworker, who joined the Reds in 1929, went to jail three years later for leading a rail strike, was freed by the Soviet Army in 1944, and came to power when King Michael was ousted in 1947, ruling ever since; of pneumonia; in Bucharest (see THE WORLD).

Died. Lieut. General Sir Frederick A. M. Browning, 68, dashing British war hero and husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier, who in World War II organized the crack Red Devils paratroop division, then led them in their valiant but disastrous attempt to seize and hold the Arnhem bridgehead in 1944, after the war served as the royal household's controller and treasurer until his retirement in 1959; of a heart attack; in Cornwall, England.

Died. Nancy Cunard, 68, great-granddaughter of the famed British ship line's founder, a London socialite turned bohemian who became an early crusader for Negro rights, moved to Harlem in 1932, where she published an 854-page anthology on Negro life and organized a campaign that helped the Scottsboro boys, seven Alabama Negroes convicted of raping two white girls, win Supreme Court reversal of their death sentences; in Paris.

Died. Dr. Clarence Evan Pickett, 80, Quaker humanitarian and head of the American Friends Service Committee for 21 years, who directed its relief programs for refugees in the Spanish Civil War, for Jews fleeing the Nazis, for the sick and hungry everywhere, thus earning the committee the 1947 Nobel Peace Prize; of a stroke; in Boise, Idaho. A pacifist to the last, Pickett picketed the White House in 1962 to protest U.S. nuclear policy minutes before entering to attend President Kennedy's dinner for Nobel laureates.

Died. Amos Alonzo Stagg, 102, patriarch of U.S. football; of uremia; in Stockton, Calif, (see SPORT).

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