Friday, Jul. 07, 1967
Married. George David Aiken, 74, five-term Republican U.S. Senator from Vermont; and Lola Pierotti, fiftyish, his administrative assistant; he for the second time (his first wife died last year), she for the first; in a Roman Catholic ceremony; at Fort Myer, Va.
Died. Jayne Mansfield, 34, sometime actress and full-time publicity chaser; of a crushed skull when the car she was riding in slammed into a truck, also killing Attorney Samuel S. Brody, 40, and their chauffeur; in New Orleans. Endowed with a pretty, pouty face and an astounding (40-18-36) figure, Jayne was single-mindedly intent on becoming a "Hollywood personality," and in a way she succeeded--by flooding the papers with peep-show photos and an incredible series of antic marriages, mishaps and escapades. In her role as the dazzlingly dumb blonde in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, critics thought they saw a spark of talent. But Jayne was too busy to fan that flame.
Died. Primo Camera, 60, briefly heavyweight champion of the world and one of sport's more tragic figures; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Sequals, Italy, 34 years to the day after winning the title. At 6 ft. 5 3/4 in. and 267 Ibs., "Da Preem" was billed as a giant (though nothing special by today's pro-football standards) in 1930, when U.S. fight promoters and their underworld bosses found him fresh from lifting weights in a European circus. As a fighter he was a joke, but fixed bouts and blaring publicity led to a payday championship match with the slipping Jack Sharkey. Incredibly, Camera won--on a lucky sixth-round knockout. He lasted only a year, until Max Baer took away his title with eleven knockdowns in eleven rounds. Camera returned to Italy penniless, his purses siphoned away by his handlers, finally settling into a clownish career as a wrestler.
Died. Shukri el Kuwatly, 76, Syrian nationalist, a hawk-faced firebrand who fought against Turkish rule before World War I, then against the French until independence in 1941, two years later became Syria's first President, only to be overthrown in 1949 and forced into a five-year exile after which he returned as President until 1958 when he and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser merged their nations into the long-cherished but ill-fated United Arab Republic; of a heart attack; in Beirut.
Died. Ichiro Kiyose, 82, Japan's leading authority on criminal law, who nonetheless in 1948 lost to the gallows his most celebrated client, Wartime Premier Hideki Tojo, despite a stubborn argument that Tojo had merely acted in national self-defense; of pneumonia; in Tokyo.
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