Monday, Feb. 23, 1970
Born. To Audrey Hepburn, 40, cinema's eternal wide-eyed innocent (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Two for the Road), and Dr. Andrea Mario Dotti, 31, Italian psychiatrist: their first child, a son; in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Married. Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 47, South African heart transplant pioneer turned man-about-international society; and Barbara Zoellner, 19, swinging daughter of a wealthy South African industrialist, once dubbed "Johannesburg's most eligible bachelor girl"; he for the second time (he was divorced last August by his wife of 21 years on grounds of desertion); in a civil ceremony; in Johannesburg.
Died. Hirsch Jacobs, 65, the winningest trainer in the history of thoroughbred racing; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Miami. Raised on the streets of New York, Jacobs never rode a horse in his life, explained his phenomenal success by saying, "You just got to use common sense and know when a horse feels like running." Put another way, he had an uncanny ability to diagnose a horse's failings and make winners out of rejects--such as Stymie, a runty $1,500 claimer he bought in 1943 that went on to earn $918,485. All told, during his 43 years as a trainer, he chalked up 3,569 victories and purses worth $15,340,354.
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