Monday, Dec. 28, 1970
Married. Lee Remick, 35, Broadway and screen actress (Wait Until Dark, No Way to Treat a Lady), and William Gowans, 40, British film director; both for the second time; in a civil ceremony in London.
Divorced. By Remi Cynthia Brooke, 21, daughter of the Massachusetts Senator, a student at Northeastern: Donald Raymond Hasler, 21, engineering student; on grounds of cruel and abusive treatment; after 1 1/2 years of marriage, no children; in Boston. The uncontested divorce was obtained last February but announced only last week.
Died. Oscar Lewis, 55, noted University of Illinois anthropologist and author of The Children of Sanchez and La Vida, a collection of intimate portraits of Mexican and Puerto Rican slumdwellers; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. His books were based on lengthy tape-recorded interviews that described as nothing else could people whose value system is almost totally a function of their poverty. Most controversial was La Vida, a shattering account of three generations of a family in the barrios of San Juan and New York, in which Lewis states his theory that poverty is an identifiable culture transcending national differences.
Died. Robert Lishman, 67, indefatigable congressional investigator; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. As chief counsel of a House subcommittee, Lishman directed the 1958 inquiry that led to the resignation of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams for accepting gifts from Industrialist Bernard Goldfine; a year later, Lishman was instrumental in exposing rigged TV quiz shows.
Died. Harry Romanoff, eightyish, one of the last of Chicago's Front Page-style reporters; in Chicago. "Romy" became famous for the telephone impersonations that often enabled him to scoop rivals without ever leaving the city room. Consider his coverage of the 1966 Speck murder case: as soon as he heard the news, he called the house where the eight nurses had lived, identified himself as the coroner, and pumped a cop on the scene for all details--minutes before the real coroner appeared.
Died. Field Marshal Viscount Slim, 79, leader of the "forgotten army" that liberated Burma from the Japanese in World War II; of a stroke; in London. Low on the priority list for supplies and troop replacements, Slim's 800,000-man force often went to battle as lightly armed as guerrillas. The struggle went on for more than three years until May 1945, when the polyglot army of Indians, Nepalese, Africans and Britons captured the port of Rangoon, virtually ending the Burma campaign.
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