Friday, May. 26, 1967
Born. To King Constantino of the Hellenes, 26, and Queen Anne-Marie, 20, his Danish-born wife of almost three years: their second child, first son, and first in line to the throne; in Tatoi Palace, 15 miles north of Athens.
Divorced. Alex Hannum, 43, coach of pro basketball's Philadelphia 76ers, who last month drove the team to its first championship in twelve years; by Dorothy Hannum, 42, on uncontested charges of cruelty; after 22 years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles.
Divorced. By Lewis Rosenstiel, 75, founder and board chairman of Schenley Industries: Susan Rosenstiel, 47, his high-living blonde wife; on charges of "habitual ungovernable temper"; after ten years of marriage (six of separation), no children; in Miami.
Died. Mrs. Joan Patricia Skakel, 39, Connecticut socialite and sister-in-law of Mrs. Robert Kennedy; of strangulation, when a piece of meat lodged in her larynx while she was dining in her Greenwich home, thus adding one more tragedy to the incredible series befalling the Skakel and Kennedy families. Her husband, George Skakel Jr., was killed last September in the crash of a light plane; his parents met a similar death in 1955; her daughter Kathleen, 17, was involved but later found blameless in the death of a neighbor's seven-year-old daughter last December, when the child fell from a car Kathleen was driving; her son Mark, 13, is still hospitalized with serious injuries suffered last month while playing with explosives.
Died. Sir Arthur Morse, 75, chief manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. from 1941 to 1953 and the man most responsible for putting Hong Kong back on its financial feet after World War II, who demonstrated his confidence by redeeming the illegal currency issued by Japanese occupation forces, an operation that eventually cost some $30 million but stimulated the credit and trade vital to commercial survival; of bronchial pneumonia; in London.
Died. Carey Orr, 77, cartoonist from 1917 to 1963 for the Chicago Tribune, a gruff, unbudgeable conservative who over the years directed his finely drawn barbs at such targets as F.D.R., Nazism, neutralism, Harry Truman, and whatever he considered Communist, receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 for a drawing of Communism as a drooling tiger ready to pounce on newly emerging Africa; of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill.
Died. Edward Hopper, 84, dean of U.S. realist painters; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see ART).
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