Friday, Nov. 22, 1968
Born. To Aye Aye Myint U, 28, daughter of U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, and Tyn Myint U, 31, Manhattan College assistant prof; a daughter, their second child; in Manhattan.
Married. Barbara Anne Eisenhower, 19, Ike's granddaughter; and Fernando Echavarria-Uribe, 25, a Colombian insurance executive whom she met on a 1966 visit to Medellin, Colombia; in a simple ceremony attended by some 150 guests, including Grandmother Mamie and Pat Nixon; in Valley Forge, Pa., thereby stealing a march on her brother David and Julie Nixon, whose wedding is planned for December.
Married. Anne McDonnell Ford, 48, who has devoted her energies to charity work and maintaining her position in fashion's Hall of Fame since her 23-year marriage to Henry Ford II ended in divorce four years ago; and Deane Johnson, 50, senior partner in the Los Angeles law firm of O'Melveny & Myers; both for the second time; in Daughter Charlotte Ford Niarchos' penthouse apartment; in Manhattan.
Divorced. Troy Donahue, 32, idol of the race-you-to-the-beach-house-for-a-Pepsi set (A Summer Place, Palm Springs Weekend); by Starlet Valerie Allen, 28, on grounds of mental cruelty (Val said he was always late to dinner); after two years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles.
Died. Wendell Corey, 54, character actor and political activist; of a liver ailment; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Corey's blue eyes could reflect the dementia of a paid killer (The Big Knife) or the dedication of a tough-talking psychiatrist (NBC-TV's The Eleventh Hour), and his career encompassed nearly 40 films and TV shows in 21 years. Offscreen, he was one of Hollywood's most ardent Republicans, campaigned tirelessly for Fellow Actor George Murphy's election to the Senate and was himself elected to the Santa Monica city council.
Died. Eleanor Philby, 55, ex-wife or Soviet counterspy Kim Philby, who followed her husband to Moscow after he defected from Great Britain in 1963, then came in from the cold after their separation two years later to write a treacly autobiography, The Spy I Loved; of cancer; in Mendocino, Calif.
Died. Aleksei Kosterin, 72, Soviet writer and critic of the Communist regime; in Moscow (see THE WORLD).
Died. Charles Munch, 77, famed conductor who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra with elegance and eclat from 1949 until 1962; of a heart attack; while on concert tour; in Richmond, Va. In the 1930s, Munch was the toast of Paris, where he was known as le beau Charles. Summoned to Boston to replace the old autocrat Serge Koussevitzky, the stately conductor earned the admiration of his musicians for his easy, gracious manners; Bostonians responded to his sense of drama and his flair for improvisation. A chronic under-rehearser who rarely directed any piece the same way twice, Munch was happiest with the music of the 19th century French Romantics, to which he brought a poetic vibrance of color and texture. Last year French Cultural Minister Andre Malraux hired him out of retirement to lead the newly formed Orchestre de Paris, and though his health was failing, Munch was determined to be on the podium for the orchestra's first American tour this fall. "My heart may suffer," he said, "but music never."
Died. Charley Goldman, 81, rugged little (5 ft. 1 in.. 115 Ibs.) prizefight trainer who, in half a century, schooled hundreds of boxers, including Lightweight Champion Lou Ambers and Heavyweight Champ Rocky Marciano; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Goldman learned his ring tactics in the streets of South Brooklyn, fought Bantamweight Champion Johnny Coulon to a standoff in 1912. Two years later, Goldman turned to training, and his black derby and horn-rimmed glasses became a familiar fixture at big-time bouts. "Training a promising kid," he once said, "is like putting a quarter in one pocket and taking a dollar out of another."
Died. Chauncey Sparks, 84, wartime Governor of Alabama, who started a former Army Air Corps sergeant named George C. Wallace on a new career in 1946 by giving him a $175-a-month assistant attorney general's job; of a heart attack; in Eufaula, Ala.
Died. Augustin Cardinal Bea, 87, brilliant Jesuit theologian who established the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity in 1960 and labored unremittingly to advance ecumenism; of a bronchial infection; in Rome. Called to Rome from his native Germany in 1924, Bea became the Vatican's foremost Biblical scholar, served for 13 years as confessor to Pope Pius XII, was principal author of Pius' encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu, which encouraged previously forbidden scientific study of the Bible. As head of the Secretariat, he traveled to England, Greece, Switzerland and the U.S. to promote ecumenical communication. He campaigned fervently to persuade Vatican Council conservatives to agree to a declaration on the attitude of the Church toward non-Christians, a retraction of the charge that all Jews are guilty of Christ's Crucifixion, and a reaffirmation of Christianity's Jewish roots.
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