Friday, May. 20, 1966
Born. To Anthony Quinn, 50, cinema's leading man of many ethnic parts (Attila the Hun, Zorba the Greek), and lolanda Addolori, 31, his Venice-born second wife of four months: their third child, third son; in Rome.
Divorced. Edward Durell Stone, 64, architect of romantically grilled and colonnaded buildings (U.S. embassy in New Delhi, Huntington Hartford's Gallery of Modern Art in Manhattan): by Maria Torch Stone, 37, his flashy second wife; on grounds of incompatibility, after eleven years of marriage, two children, and 18 months of public spatting; in Juarez, Mexico.
Died. Robert F. Allen, 29, Tucson insurance salesman who two months ago participated in a daring operation aimed at arresting his bone cancer by swapping diseased tissue with another bone cancer victim, Pennsylvania Salesman Harry T. Griffith; in Tucson, Ariz., two weeks after Griffith succumbed.
Died. Walter E. Alessandroni, 51, Pennsylvania's able attorney general, a canny state politician who in 1962 masterminded William Scranton's successful gubernatorial campaign, and recently developed his own political ambitions as a Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor next fall; in the crash of a Piper Aztec (along with his wife); in the Allegheny Mountains near Somerset, Pa. Whereupon Scranton and top state Republicans urged party members to vote for Alessandroni anyway in this week's primary in order to defeat his opponent, Goldwaterite Blair F. Gunther, which would enable Scranton to name a replacement.
Died. Bishop Wilhelmus Marinus Bekkers, 58, progressive leader of The Netherlands' largest Roman Catholic diocese at 's Hertogenbosch, who worked tirelessly for a more liberal church attitude, calling birth control a matter of conscience, and defending priests who renounced their vows in order to marry, all of which made him an urgent voice for reform during the ecumenical Council; of a brain tumor; in Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Died. James J. Rorimer, 60, art scholar and showman host to 7,000,000 visitors annually as director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see ART).
Died. Walter J. Tuohy, 65, a merger master of U.S. railroading, who, as president of the Chesapeake & Ohio, proved for all time that two--or even three can live more cheaply than one, in 1963 paired his successful coal-hauling C. & O. with the deficit-ridden Baltimore & Ohio, thus producing a $65 million combined annual profit within two years, and this year (pending ICC approval) adding the Norfolk & Western line to build a network that in track (26,460 miles from Maine to Nebraska) and annual revenues ($1.82 billion) would rank as the nation's second biggest, next to the newly joined Pennsylvania New York Central; of a heart attack; in Cleveland.
Died. Delmar Leighton, 69, Harvard's "dean of deans," who at his retirement in 1963 had devoted 41 years to counseling undergraduates, housing freshmen together for mutual aid, putting bright young professors in upper-class houses for intellectual stimulation, and opening a social and study center for commuter students; of a ruptured aneurysm of the heart; in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada.
Died. Duncan Phillips, 79, art connoisseur and creator of Washington's magnificent Phillips Collection, through which he shared his treasures with the world; of heart disease; in Washington, D.C. (see ART).
Died. Dr. Mathilde Ludendorff, 89, bizarre German psychiatrist, famed throughout Europe in the early 1900s for her free-swinging approach to sex in such books as Erotic Rebirth, who later turned strident nationalist, blaming Germany's World War I defeat on Masons, Jesuits and, most particularly, Jews, and toured the country in flowing robes embroidered with Nordic symbols, preaching hate and accusing Hitler of being too far left; after pneumonia; in Tutzing, Germany.
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