Monday, Aug. 08, 1960
Born. To Henry Sears Lodge, 29, Boston electronics sales executive, son of Republican Vice-Presidential Nominee Henry Cabot Lodge, and Elenita Ziegler Lodge, 23: their third child, third son; in Boston, five minutes before grandfather (now of eight) won the nomination.
Born. To Terry Moore, 30, cinemactress, and Stuart Warren Cramer III, 32, Los Angeles businessman and her third husband: their first child, a son, by natural childbirth (she watched it by mirror) ; in Hollywood.
Divorced. Willie ("The Shoe") Shoemaker, 29, the nation's leading jockey in an unprecedented five of his eleven seasons of riding, and presently in a nip-and-tuck battle for 1960 honors with Willie Hartack; by Virginia Shoemaker, 25; after ten years of marriage, two adopted children; in Los Angeles.
Divorced. Claude Rains, 70, veteran British-born actor; by Agi Jambor, 51, his fifth wife, Hungarian-born concert pianist; after nine months of marriage; in West Chester, Pa.
Died. Clyde Kay Maben Kluckhohn, 55, anthropologist, authority on Southwestern Indian culture, a director of the Army's massive study of Japan during World War II and from 1947 to 1954 of the West's largest private Russian-research center, at Harvard; of a heart attack; in Sante Fe, N. Mex.
Died. Richard Leo Simon, 61, co-founder with M. Lincoln Schuster of Simon & Schuster, Inc. publishing house, a former piano and book salesman who in 1924 helped launch the firm with the world's first crossword-puzzle collection (an immediate bestseller now in its 84th edition), concentrated largely on nonfiction and self-improvement works (Wendell Willkie's One World, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People), pioneered paperback publication with Pocket Books in 1939; of a heart attack; in Stamford, Conn.
Died. Welker Cochran, 63, swaggering billiard sharpshooter and Willie Hoppe's longtime touring opponent, world's champion six times in three-cushion, twice in balkline competition between 1927 and 1946, who trained for a match like a boxer, doing roadwork around Central Park and giving up smoking, once remarked, "The killer instinct is part of a billiards player"; of a heart attack; in Belmont, Calif.
Died. Oksana Stepanovna Kasenkina, 63, Russian schoolteacher in the Soviet consulate in Manhattan, who defected in 1948 by jumping from a third-floor window, became a U.S. citizen in 1957 and wrote Leap to Freedom, the story of her life under Russian repression and of the disappearance of her husband in the 1937 purges; of heart disease; in Miami, where she had lived incognita the past year in a hotel for the elderly. Her leap followed a previous escape to the New York farm of the anti-Communist Tolstoy Foundation, from which she was kidnaped by the then Soviet consul general, Jacob M. Lomakin, whom the U.S. swiftly expelled--leading to the end of all consular representation between the two nations.
Died. Desire Defauw, 74, Belgian symphony conductor, brought to the U.S. by Arturo Toscanini in 1939, subsequently musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1943-47) and of the Gary (Ind.) Symphony Orchestra from 1955 until his retirement in 1958; of pneumonia; in Gary, Ind.
Died. George Rothwell Brown, 80, longtime Washington political correspondent and a Hearst-chain analyst for 30 years, who wrote a front-page column in the Washington Post from 1917 to 1929, covered every national political convention since 1908 except the 1932 Democratic gathering, during which William Randolph Hearst Sr. assigned him to persuade John Nance Garner to yield his votes to F.D.R.; of a stroke; in Chicago.
Died. Eugene Gifford Grace, 83, articulate spokesman of the U.S. steel industry, president from 1916 to 1945 and chief executive officer and board chairman the following twelve years of Bethlehem Steel Corp., which he molded into the nation's biggest shipbuilder and second biggest steel producer, increasing sales from $218 million in 1916 to more than $2 billion in 1957; following a series of strokes; in Bethlehem, Pa. Valedictorian and baseball captain at Lehigh University ('99), Grace turned down an offer to play professional baseball to join Bethlehem Steel as a $1.80-per-day crane operator, in 1956 was the nation's highest-paid executive, with $809,011 in salary and bonuses. Though bitterly attacked by union labor leaders for his own high pay and for his unflinching battles against the closed shop in the 19305, Grace at the same time pioneered employees' pension plans, expanded the company's famed incentive system to cover 60% of all employees as well as the chairman.
Died. A. E. (for Alfred Edward) Matthews, 90, peppery, debonair British actor, who trouped the world in more than 300 plays in 73 years (the first 67 without missing a performance) ; in Bushey Heath, England.
Died. Ethel Lilian Boole Voynich, 96, Irish-born English author of the global bestseller (estimated copies: 5,000,000) The Gadfly, a romance written in 1897 about an Italian revolutionary's fight on Austrian rule, who settled in the U.S. in 1920; of pneumonia; in Manhattan.
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