Monday, Feb. 09, 1976

Divorced. Glenda Jackson, 39, Academy Award-winning actress (Women in Love, A Touch of Class); and Stage Director Roy Hodges, 48; after 18 years of marriage, one child; in London.

Died. Vivian Wilson Henderson, 52, economist, author and president of predominantly black Clark College in Atlanta since 1965; while undergoing open-heart surgery after a heart attack; in Atlanta. Describing himself as an economist who happened to be a college president, the University of Iowa-educated Henderson argued that the key social issue in America was not race but class. Said he: "We have programs for combatting racial discrimination, but not for combatting economic class distinctions." The rise in student militancy brought accusations of "Uncle Tomism" from those who saw Henderson's numerous board positions, including membership on the Ford Foundation's board of trustees, as a dilution of his commitment to the black cause. Henderson's reply was to continue to fight for a full-employment strategy that would give a job to every American willing and able to work.

Died. Willis ("Ray") Nance, 62, a versatile musician who growled on the trumpet and wailed jazz on the violin for 23 years with Duke Ellington's band; after a long illness; in Manhattan.

Died. Angelo Ravagli, 84, self-proclaimed catalyst of D.H. Lawrence's novel of infidelity Lady Chatterley's Lover; in Spotorno, Italy. Ravagli made the claim, supported by at least one biographer, that Lawrence's wife Frieda could not resist his graceful good looks and finally yielded to him while the Lawrences vacationed in Spotorno--at which point Lawrence discovered them flagrante delicto. Lawrence took literary revenge by writing Lady Chatterley. In 1930, after Lawrence succumbed to tuberculosis, Ravagli wrote to Frieda: "I am waiting for you." She came. Ravagli abandoned his wife and three children for Frieda and lived with her for nearly 20 years before they were married in 1950. When Frieda died in 1956, Ravagli inherited one-fourth of her estate, which included accumulating royalties from Lady Chatterley. In 1959 the bans on Lady Chatterley were lifted, and for a time the novel's sales skyrocketed, making Ravagli rich from the book about his adultery.

Died. Issar Yehuda Unterman, 90, Orthodox chief rabbi of the Ashkenazic Jewish community in Israel from 1964 to 1972 and a pioneer in the Zionist movement; in Jerusalem.

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