Friday, Mar. 17, 1967

Born. To Sukarno, 65, beleaguered President of Indonesia, and Ratna Sari Dewi, 27, onetime Japanese nightclub hostess: their first child, a girl (he has seven children by five previous wives); in Tokyo. Name: Kartika Sari, meaning essence of the stars.

Married. Gary Lewis, 21, eldest of Comedian Jerry Lewis' six children, a successful rock 'n' roll singer in his own right; and Sara Jane Suzara, 22, daughter of the chief pilot of Manila harbor, whom Gary met while on tour in the Philippines; in Westwood, Calif.

Divorced. By Sandra Dee, 24, perennial Hollywood teen-age twippet (Take Her, She's Mine, That Funny Feeling); Bobby Darin, 30, nightclub singer (Mack the Knife); on grounds of mental cruelty; after six years of marriage, one son; in Los Angeles.

Died. Mischa Auer, 61, character actor who played seedy aristocrats, slightly frayed remittance men, or mad Cossacks in scores of Hollywood movies in the 1930s and 1940s (My Man Godfrey, Destry Rides Again), the orphaned son of a czarist naval officer, who at one point during the Bolshevik revolution roamed Russia with a pack of parentless children before a grandfather brought him to the U.S., eventually made his way to Hollywood, where his borsch-and-sour-cream accent and rolling-eyed comedy won him fame; of a heart attack; in Rome.

Died. Nelson Eddy, 65, romantic baritone, whose golden tones and handsome blond looks blended so perfectly with Jeanette MacDonald's clear soprano and redheaded beauty that they became Hollywood's most celebrated pair in the late 1930s and '40s, singing their way through scores of love duets (Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, Indian Love Call, Will You Remember) and eight hit musicals from Naughty Marietta to I Married an Angel, films that won them such everlasting fans that Eddy could count on a packed house of appreciative middle-aged folk whenever he appeared on the nightclub circuit; of a stroke suffered in the middle of a performance; in Miami Beach, Fla.

Died. G. A. ("Tony") Vandervell, 68, British millionaire auto-parts manufacturer who dedicated his fortune to putting Britain's green racing colors into the lead on Formula I Grand Prix auto circuits, built his first Vanwall racing car in 1954, two years later won his first victory at the Silverstone International Trophy race with Stirling Moss at the wheel, and reached a peak in 1958 when his Vanwall beat the Italians and Germans in six out of ten Grand Prix races for the championship; of pneumonia; in London.

Died. Joseph T. Lykes Sr., 78, U.S. ship owner, last of seven brothers who founded Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. in 1923 to ferry cattle between Gulf ports and Cuba, boosted their business into the biggest U.S. cargo line operating 57 freighters; of arteriosclerosis; in Clearwater, Fla.

Died. Georges Philias Vanier, 78, Governor General of Canada, the first French Canadian to hold that post, a distinguished soldier-diplomat who served his country as a courageous leader on World War I battlefields where he lost a leg, later as Canada's voice at the League of Nations, its Ambassador to France from 1944 to 1953, and finally its Governor General from 1959 on, a position in which he used his immense prestige to urge an end to the "pettiness, selfishness and intolerance" that still divides Canada's French-and English-speaking populations; in Ottawa.

Died. Zoltan Kodaly, 84, Hungarian composer; of a heart attack; in Budapest (see Music).

Died. Mohammed Mossadegh, 84, bitterly controversial Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953; of intestinal bleeding; in Teheran. Frail, bald and bespectacled, Mossadegh hardly looked the part of a ferocious nationalist when he rode to power on a wave of xenophobia and shrill promises to nationalize the huge, British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. with its $1 billion worth of wells, pipelines and refineries. It took the tantrum-prone demagogue barely two days to make good his threat--and start his country on 39 months of economic and political chaos. In 1953, Mossadegh's street mobs finally frightened the Shah out of the country, but by then the army had seen enough and took over the government after bloody street fighting. Dragged shrieking into court, Mossadegh was sentenced to three years' solitary confinement on charges of treason--which the Shah commuted to house arrest, allowing him to live out his days on his landholdings near Teheran.

Died. Alice B. Toklas, 89, confidante and lifelong companion of Author Gertrude Stein; after a long illness; in Paris (see THE WORLD).

Died. Roger Ward Babson, 91, economist and pioneer in the business of advising investors, who set up Babson's Reports in 1903 to collect statistics and chart market trends, a service that paid off handsomely when he predicted the 1929 crash, went on to write 37 business books (Business Barometers), founded Massachusetts' Babson Institute as a business school for men, and helped organize Florida's Webber College for business-struck women; of heart disease; in Lake Wales, Fla.

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