Monday, Apr. 26, 1976
Married. Carl Bernstein, 31, one half of the Washington Post's prizewinning Watergate-reporting team and co-author (with Bob Woodward) of the bestselling The Final Days; and Nora Ephron, 34, witty feminist editor (Esquire) and author (Crazy Salad); both for the second time; in Manhattan.
Married. Doris Day, 52, freckle-faced band singer of the 1940s turned virgin queen of cinema in the '50s and '60s; and Barry D. Comden, 41, sometime restaurant manager; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Carmel, Calif.
Married. Wayne L. Hays, 64, terrible-tempered 14-term Congressman from Ohio and chairman of the House Administration Committee; and Patricia Peak, thirtyish, Hays' longtime personal secretary; he for the second time, she for the first; in Arlington, Va.
Died. Lieut. General David Elazar, 50, Chief of Israeli troops during the 1973 October War, who resigned after he was officially blamed for wrongly assessing Arab intentions; of a heart attack; near Tel Aviv.
Died. Myra K. Wolfgang, 61, outspoken union leader who two years ago helped organize the 3,200-member nationwide Coalition of Labor Union Women; of cancer; in Detroit. As vice president of the 500,000-member Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International, she testified against the Equal Rights Amendment. "I am afraid of equality of mistreatment," she told a Senate subcommittee.
Died. Paul Ford, 74, horse-faced character actor who played Colonel Hall, the butt of Phil Silvers' Sergeant Bilko on TV; after a brief illness; in Mineola, N.Y. At 37, Ford decided to become an actor, scored best on Broadway as the incredulous colonel in The Teahouse of the August Moon (1953) and as the dismay-ridden father-to-be in Never Too Late (1962).
Died. Gerald L.K. Smith, 78, self-styled rabble-rouser and proudly bigoted founder of the extreme right-wing Christian Nationalist Crusade; of pneumonia; in Glendale, Calif. A fundamentalist preacher, Smith left his pulpit to work for Louisiana Governor Huey Long, crossing the country to set up Share-Our-Wealth Clubs. After Long's death in 1935, Smith turned far right. In his virulent magazine The Cross and The Flag, he heaped invective on Jews, blacks, Catholics, Communists and labor unions, and campaigned to drive "Franklin D. Jewsevelt" out of the White House.
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