Monday, Oct. 17, 1983
EXPECTING. Jerry Hall, 27, towering Texan supermodel, and Mick Jagger, 40, strutting, mugging lead singer of the world's most enduring rock-'n'-roll band, the Rolling Stones; their first child; in February. Jagger, who has two daughters, Karis, 12, by American Singer Marsha Hunt, and Jade, 11, by his ex-wife Bianca Jagger, does not intend to marry Hall. Said the legendary "street-fightin' man" last week: "I think stability, comfort and marriage are very well for other people. But in this business I don't think you can have that and still be creative."
ARRESTED. Steven Todd Jenkins, 18; on charges that with his father, James Lee Jenkins, he ambushed and killed two officials from the bank that had foreclosed on the family's ten-acre Ruthton, Minn., farm; in Paducah, Texas. A frustrated, divorced farmer who had struggled for years to run a successful agricultural operation, James Lee apparently decided to take vengeance on Bank President Rudolph Blythe. The Jenkinses had returned to Minnesota from Texas, where they had been living in near poverty. Blythe and Loan Officer Deems Thulin were lured to the farm to meet with Jenkins two weeks ago and were gunned down. The Jenkinses fled back to Paducah, where the father apparently killed himself with his shotgun and the son surrendered to police.
SENTENCED. David Gilbert, 40, Judith Clark, 33, and Kuwasi Balagoon, 36, radical gang members convicted of the murders of a guard and two police officers in the $1.6 million Brink's armored-car robbery of October 1981; each to a minimum of 75 years in prison; in Goshen, N.Y. The would-be revolutionaries will serve three consecutive terms of 25 years to life.
DIED. Terence Cardinal Cooke, 62, Archbishop of New York; of acute myelomonoblastic leukemia; in New York City. The genial, owlish New York native succeeded his mentor, the commanding Francis Cardinal Spellman, and quickly adopted a more conciliatory managerial style, in keeping with the decentralizing principles of Vatican II. An anti-Communist who served as military vicar to the U.S. armed services' 2 million Roman Catholics, the Cardinal last year abandoned his usual quiet role among fellow prelates to oppose the majority of American bishops in their call for nuclear disarmament. Cooke used the occasion of his approaching death as a means of pastoral teaching, announcing that his condition was terminal shortly after he learned the news in August. In an open letter completed only days before his death, Cooke reiterated the prolife, antiabortion views he had long preached, saying, "The gift of life, God's special gift, is no less beautiful when it is accompanied by illness or weakness, hunger or poverty, mental or physical handicaps, loneliness or old age."
DIED. Lucille Armstrong, 69, fourth wife of the late Louis Armstrong, who since her husband's death had continued as a globetrotting good-will ambassador for American jazz; of cardiac arrest; while visiting Boston. The couple met when Lucille was a dancer at Harlem's Cotton Club and were married for 31 years, until Satchmo's death in 1971.
DIED. Earl Silas Tupper, 76, self-described "ham inventor" who developed an unbreakable, flexible, shape-retaining polyethylene that, when molded into a variety of colored dishes, bowls and air-tight containers, became Tupperware; of a heart attack; in San Jose, Costa Rica. Notably tightfisted, Tupper, who founded his company in 1942, was the sole shareholder and personally designed and manufactured his products in his own factories. He also conceived the still popular "Tupperware party," a direct-sales technique launched in the 1950s, which he used to sell his line to groups gathered in the home of a neighbor. Tupper sold his corporation to Rexall in 1958 for an estimated $9 million and remained board chairman until 1973.
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