Friday, May. 05, 1967
Born. To Crown Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands, 29, and Prince Claus, formerly Claus von Amsberg, 40, onetime West German diplomat: their first child, a son, thus presenting the 400-year-old House of Orange-Nassau with its first male heir in 111 years; in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Divorced. By Vanessa Redgrave, 30, lissome film star (Morgan!, Blow-Up): Tony Richardson, 38, Academy Award-winning director (Tom Jones); on grounds of adultery with Jeanne Moreau while filming The Sailor from Gibraltar (see CINEMA); after four years of marriage, two children; in London.
Divorced. Edgar N. Eisenhower, 78, Tacoma lawyer and businessman, older (by two years) brother of Ike; and Lucille Dawson Eisenhower, 46, his third wife and former law secretary; on grounds of "a burdensome home life"; after 16 years of marriage, no children; in Tacoma, Wash.
Died. Jim Mackenzie, 37, football coach of the University of Oklahoma, who in his first top coaching assignment last year, after eight seasons as assistant coach at Missouri and Arkansas, sweated something like 1,500 Ibs. off his downtrodden Sooners, winners of only three of ten games in 1965, fielded a rock-hard team with a wide-open offense (six wins, four losses) and won Big Eight Coach of the Year honors; of a heart attack; in Norman Okla.
Died. Colonel Vladimir M. Komarov, 40, Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the first multi-manned (three) spacecraft, Voskhod 1, which orbited the earth 16 times in 1964; when his second venture into space aboard a new capsule, Soyuz 1, ended in disaster; somewhere in the U.S.S.R. (see SCIENCE).
Died. Ray Smith, 54, Dallas oilman and devoted sportsman, a railroad fireman's son who built a $75 million fortune by parlaying a two-pump gas station into a rich drilling and trucking operation--and then put fishermen everywhere in his debt with another natural resource, Panama's Pinas Bay, where, starting in 1963, he spent some $2,000,000 to turn an isolated patch of Pacific coastline into the handsome Club de Pesca de Panama, which, with its own amphibious plane service and a 15-boat fleet, opened the world's greatest marlin grounds to thousands of delighted anglers; of a heart attack; at Pinas Bay.
Died. Anthony Mann, 60, movie director, a onetime off-Broadway bit-player who rose to direct Broadway shows like 1936's So Proudly We Hail before going to Hollywood, where he turned out over 40 films of meticulous workmanship but uneven merit, including The Glenn Miller Story and El Cid; of a heart attack; in West Berlin.
Died. Archbishop Le Huu Tu, 73, Roman Catholic Vietnamese religious leader and nationalist, who in the late 1940s formed his own paramilitary force to fight with Ho Chi Minh against the French, then in 1954 fled South, where he fought the Communists and, despite failing health, devoted himself to resettling and assisting the 1,000,000 refugees from the North who followed his example; of cancer; in Saigon.
Died. Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, 87, pioneer U.S. military aviator, who soloed in 1910 in a Wright Brothers plane ("It was my first takeoff, first landing and first crack-up"), was the first to fly combat against Pancho Villa along the Mexican border in 1916, first to fly more than 100 miles nonstop, first to operate a radio in flight, first to command the fledgling U.S. Air Service First Army in World War I and, before retiring in 1935, the man who selected the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress to fill U.S. needs for a long-range bomber; of a heart attack; at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
Died. Delbert E. Metzger, 92, U.S. District Court Judge for Hawaii from 1939 to 1952, who caused an uproar in 1944 by ruling that martial law was no longer necessary in the islands and fining Lieut. General Robert C. Richardson Jr. $5,000 for refusing to comply, in 1951 caused another flap by acquitting 39 Hawaiians of contempt of Congress charges after they took refuge in the Fifth Amendment during a House investigation; in Honolulu.
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