Monday, Jun. 17, 1974
Born. To Seiji Ozawa, 38, kinetic conductor of the Boston and San Francisco symphonies, and Vera Ozawa, 29, former Tokyo fashion model: their first son, second child; in San Francisco.
Married. Kenneth Barnard Keating, 74, white-maned U.S. Ambassador to Israel, who was dethroned as Senator from New York by Robert Kennedy in 1964; and Mary Pitcairn Davis, 53, widow of Wendell Davis, Manhattan attorney and Harvard Law School classmate of Keating's; he for the second time, she for the third; in Princeton, N.J. Henry Kissinger's recent Middle East marathon forced repeated postponements of the wedding by keeping the groom glued to his diplomatic post.
Died. Elliott Sullivan, 66, durable stage (Brigadoon, Compulsion) and film (The Roaring Twenties, Yankee Doodle Dandy) actor; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Accused of Communist affiliations, Sullivan was hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955. Sullivan refused to testify, invoking the First Amendment freedoms of speech and assembly. Indicted for contempt of Congress, he was acquitted on a technicality in 1961.
Died. Ahmed Messali Hadj, 76, patriarch of the Algerian nationalist movement; in Paris. Tireless and magnetic, Messali began assailing French colonialism in the 1920s, spent years in jail and under house arrest, and saw himself as the Gandhi of North Africa. But when the struggle for Algerian independence intensified in the 1950s, he was regarded as an ineffectual anachronism by the militant F.L.N. (National Liberation Front). Ignored by the Algerian government after independence, Messali lived out his years an exile in France.
Died. Sir Arnold Lunn, 86, pioneering authority on skiing; in London. In the 1920s Lunn invented the modern slalom course, on which the skier executes all types of turns around markers set up in the snow. The Harrow-and Oxford-educated sportsman wrote a galaxy of volumes on skiing and such subjects as Communism, which he abhorred, mountaineering, travel and Catholicism, to which he was a zealous convert.
Died. Blanche Yurka, 86, accomplished dramatic actress; of arteriosclerosis; in Manhattan. Yurka was acclaimed for decades for her stage portrayals of such classic figures as Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, Aristophanes' Lysistrata and Shakespeare's Gertrude, which she played to John Barrymore's Hamlet. She also appeared in several films, most memorably as Madame De-Farge in A Tale of Two Cities (1935).
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