Friday, Jul. 28, 1967
Married. Yael Dayan, 28, novelist of Israel's young Sabra (native) generation (New Pace in the Mirror), to Israeli Army Colonel Dov Sion, 46, whom she met last month on the Sinai front; and Assaf Dayan, 22, Tel Aviv actor, to Aharona Malkind, 22, his high school sweetheart; all for the first time, in a double Jewish ceremony, with Yael and Assaf's parents, Israeli Defense Minister and Mrs. Moshe Dayan, plus 1,000 high-ranking guests, in attendance; at the Dayans' villa outside Tel Aviv.
Died. James E. Foxx, 59, baseball's "Double X," who in 20 seasons (1925-45), mainly as a first baseman for the Philadelphia A's, hit 534 homers, putting him second only to Babe Ruth (714) until 1966, when Willie Mays took over the runner-up spot; apparently of a heart attack; in Miami.
Died. Humberto Castello Branco, 66, former President of Brazil (see THE WORLD).
Died. Albert John Luthuli, 69, Africa's first native Nobel laureate (for peace, in 1960), and one of its most articulate champions of racial equality; of head injuries when he was struck by a train; near Stanger, South Africa. A teacher at Natal's all-black Adams College, Luthuli first rose to world notice in 1952 by helping to organize a defiant but nonviolent campaign against South Africa's hated apartheid, to which the government reacted by stripping him of his Zulu tribal chieftainship, and finally, in 1959, virtually banishing him to his isolated farm, where in 1962 he wrote his anguished, eloquent autobiography, Let My People Go.
Died. Basil Rathbone, 75, Hollywood's paragon of British urbanity, a rakish, aquiline-nosed immigrant from the London stage who menaced, mocked and often sleuthed his way through more than 100 pictures, including 16 as a resonant Sherlock Holmes, after which he deserted Baker Street for a versatile career in TV and on the Broad way stage (1959's J.B.); of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Lieut. General Lewis H. Brereton, 76, pathfinder in military aviation, who with Billy Mitchell in the 1920s was in the thick of the fight to prove that aircraft could make junk out of Navy warships, in 1942 organized the India-based bomber force that struck the first offensive blows in the Far East (against Japanese forces in the Burma area), later commanded the First Allied Airborne Army in its 1944 glider-and-parachute invasion of The Netherlands; of a heart attack; in Washington.
Died. Carl Sandburg, 89, giant of American letters (see THE NATION).
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