Monday, Aug. 20, 1973
Married. Anthony Perkins, 41, veteran actor (Look Homeward, Angel; Catch-22) and new hit screenwriter (The Last of Sheila), and Berinthia (Berry) Berenson, 25, fashion photographer and granddaughter of legendary Paris Couturiere Schiaparelli; both for the first time; in Wellfleet, Mass. A baby is expected in January, as the couple have joyfully announced.
Died. Dr. George Wiley, 42, black welfare-rights leader who gave up an academic career in organic chemistry for a life of social action; presumed dead by drowning in a boating accident in Chesapeake Bay. Dr. Wiley left Syracuse University to serve as associate national director of CORE from 1964 until 1966, when he resigned to establish the National Welfare Rights Organization. Its goal was expanding legal rights for welfare recipients, and it won for them such reforms as the right to privacy and the elimination of residency requirements.
Died. Maxwell ("Mack") Kriendler, 65, former president of New York's elegant "21" Club, who boasted of knowing 50,000 people by name; of pneumonia while under treatment for cancer; in Manhattan. Kriendler, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, was for years the host at the world-famous restaurant that began as a speakeasy and became a clublike haven for celebrities, racing gentry and tycoons. The restaurant features the world's costliest hamburgers, an impressive cellar and a murky bar area decorated with scale-model beer trucks and airplanes. Mack Kriendler determined nightly which of the 50,000 sat in splendor at the bar or the main dining room and which were relegated to the limbo of the second floor Bottle Room.
Died. Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, 72, Cuban dictator and twice President between 1933 and his overthrow by Fidel Castro in 1959; of a heart attack; in Guadalmina, Spain. Born into the lower classes, Batista joined the army in 1921 and learned its inner workings by transcribing the political trials held in the regime of Gerardo Machado. In 1933 he seized control of the army and the country in a bloodless --but genuine--"sergeants' revolution." But he soon learned the lavish ways of Latin dictators: gambling and prostitution flourished in Havana while government officials built monumental bank accounts from sugar deals with the U.S. In an ill-considered play for popularity, Batista released hundreds of political prisoners in 1955; one of them, Fidel Castro, put together the Communist revolution that ousted him. He settled in exile with his fortune and his family in Portugal.
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