Friday, Aug. 20, 1965
Born. To Vic Damone, 37, nightclub crooner, and Judy Rawlins, 29, sometime actress: their first child, a daughter (he has a son by First Wife Pier An-geli); in Los Angeles.
Married. Jane Fonda, 27, Henry's leggy daughter (Cat Ballon); and Roger Vadim, 37, French director (Circle of Love), Svengali to three cinematic bombes (Brigitte Bardot and Annette Stroyberg, both of whom he married, and Catherine Deneuve); he for the third time; at the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas.
Divorced. Byron Janis, 37, virtuoso U.S. concert pianist; by June Dickson-Wright, 33, daughter of British Surgeon Arthur Dickson-Wright; on grounds of incompatibility; after eleven years of marriage, one child; in Juarez, Mexico. Died. Shirley Jackson, 45, master of seance fiction, author of The Lottery, chilling tale of a 20th century New England village's annual rite of human sacrifice, and dozens more stories and novels (Hangsaman, We Have Always Lived in the Castle) so horrific that it always surprised readers to learn that all this came from a contented wife and good-humored mother of four who could with equal facility poke gentle fun at her home life in two rollick ing Jean Kerr-like novels (Raising Demons, Life Among the Savages); of a heart attack; in North Bennington, Vt.
Died. Just Lunning, 55, president since 1952 of Georg Jensen, Manhattan emporium of Scandinavian silver, ceramics and furnishings founded by his father in 1923, a Harvard-educated lawyer from Odense, Denmark, who so successfully promoted the clean and simplified lines of modern Scandinavian design that they have found their way into almost every U.S. home, increasing his store's sales by 55%; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Gracie Bowers Pfost, 59, Democratic Congresswoman from Idaho's First District (northern panhandle of the state) from 1952 to '62, a sizzling redhead who delighted in challenging men to rodeo and log-riding events, served ably as her state's first woman Representative, specializing in federal land projects, but lost to Incumbent Republican Len Jordan in a 1962 bid for a Senate seat; of Hodgkin's disease; in Baltimore, Md.
Died. Hayato Ikeda, 65, Prime Minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964, a talented economist who as Vice-Minis ter and later Minister of Finance and International Trade guided Japan's postwar economic recovery almost continuously since 1947, pursuing his ex pansionist program as Prime Minister with a promise to double per capita income within ten years, until in 1961 Japan had the world's highest growth rate (18.9%) but also a record $1.5 billion trade deficit and the beginnings of a recession; of pneumonia, following surgery for throat cancer; in Tokyo.
Died. Jeanette Barr Derby Cuthbert, 70, known to the fashion world as Jane Derby, designer since 1930 of dresses for petite mature women, herself a diminutive (5 ft.) Virginia socialite who over the years turned out an elegant line of high fashion and ready-to-wear, usually trimmed with bows, was most popular for her "little" black crepe dress that could see a woman from after noon into evening; of a heart attack; in Bermuda.
Died. Sir John Hanbury-Williams, 73, longtime (1946-62) chairman of Courtaulds, Ltd., Britain's largest manufacturer of synthetic fibers (sales: $840 million), who as managing director in the 1930s led the firm into the production of nylon and cellophane, saw it fall on hard times in the 1950s with stiffer competition and declining sales, barely staved off a takeover bid by Britain's giant Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., in his last year as chairman; of cancer; in London.
Died. Jesse William Shields, 78, one of the U.S. rubber industry's most inventive engineers, who directed physical research first at Goodyear and later at Firestone, in 1932 conceived a low-pressure pneumatic tractor tire that proved a major boon to farming, during World War II developed hard-rubber tracks for U.S. and British tanks, and a foam plastic float used to transport vehicles ashore in the Okinawa landing; of chronic lung disease; in Wilmington, Del.
Died. William Gallacher, 83, former president of Britain's small (some 35,-000 members) Communist Party and longtime Member of Parliament (1935-50), a loud, irascible Scotsman who thrived on baiting other speakers, in 1947 caused an enraged Winston Churchill to yell "Shut up, Moscow," to which Gallacher retaliated "Voice of Wall Street," eventually lost his seat to a Laborite; of cancer; in Paisley, Scotland.
Died. Percy Hamilton Clark, 91, patriarch of the Philadelphia Main Line Clarks, uncle of Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph S. Clark and father of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's exwife, Mary Todhunter Clark, himself a lawyer and former senior partner of Clark, Spahr, Eichman & Yardley; of a heart attack; in Villanova, Pa.
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