Monday, Aug. 18, 1980
SEEKING DIVORCE. JoJo Starbuck, 29, former Ice Capades star; from Terry Bradshaw, 31, quarterback who has led the Pittsburgh Steelers to four N.F.L. championships; after four years of marriage, in which the two born-again Christians were known as Pittsburgh's "golden couple"; no children; in Pittsburgh.
DIVORCED. Pete Rose, 39, flamboyant first baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies; and Karolyn Rose, 38, his wife of 16 years and mother of their two children; on grounds of neglect; in Cincinnati.
DIVORCED. Harold Pinter, 49, English playwright, stage director and screenwriter; and Vivien Merchant, 51, English actress who appeared in many of her husband's plays; after 24 years of marriage, one son; in London. Since 1975 Pinter has been living with Lady Antonia Eraser, 47, author of bestselling biographies and thrillers and divorced wife of Tory M.P. Sir Hugh Fraser.
DIED. Jacqueline Cochran, seventyish, writer, businesswoman and pioneer pilot who held more speed, distance and altitude records than any other flyer of her era, which spanned biplanes and supersonic bombers; of heart failure; near Palm Springs, Calif. Wife of Industrialist Floyd Odium, she covered Japan's surrender and the Nuremberg trials as a correspondent, once described the life that began in hardscrabble Southern lumber camps as a rise "from sawdust to Stardust."
DIED. Marino Marini, 79, one of Italy's leading sculptors, especially noted for his equestrian statues; in Viareggio, Italy. Marini's early horsemen were serene monuments to man's power over nature. With time his horses became more strained and frantic in their poses, the riders less in control.
DIED. Donald Ogden Stewart, 85, amiable humorist, playwright and Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted during the 1950s; of heart disease; in London. There is an antic hilarity in his most successful screenplays, including Holiday and The Philadelphia Story, for which he won an Oscar in 1941. He was attacked as a Communist as early as 1938; in 1950 McCarthyite harassment caused him to leave the U.S., and he never returned. His wife, Ella Winter Stewart, 82, radical activist and former wife of Muckraker Lincoln Steffens, died of a stroke three days after Stewart.
DIED. Willis D. Crittenberger, 89. retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who led the allies from Rome to the Po River in World War II; in Chevy Chase, Md. During 326 days of continuous combat, his IV Corps, composed of American, British, Indian, Brazilian, South African and Italian troops, freed more than 600 cities and towns, captured remnants of 23 German divisions and closed the Alpine passes so that enemy troops could not join the main German armies in Europe.
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