Monday, Sep. 19, 1960

Born. To Jean Ann Kennedy Smith, 32, youngest sister of Democratic Presidential Nominee John F. Kennedy, and Stephen Edward Smith, 32, a Manhattan tug and barge executive turned fulltime Kennedy campaigner: their second son; in Boston. Name: William Kennedy.

Married. Gary Crosby, 27, oldest son of Der Single and the fourth of five (the exception: two-year-old Harry Lillis III) to marry a Las Vegas show girl; and Barbara Stuart, 27, strapping (6 ft.) blonde; she for the second time; in Las Vegas.

Married. John Robert Russell, 43, tax-pinched 13th Duke of Bedford, who since opening his ancestral Woburn Abbey estate to the public in 1955 has entertained more than 2,000,000 visitors--including a nudists' convention--at 35-c- a head; and Nicole Milinair, 40, comely, cigar-smoking, French-born TV producer and World War II Resistance worker, who remarked upon receipt of her diamond engagement ring: "It's a nice piece of glass, isn't it?"; he for the third time, she for the second; in Ampthill, England.

Died. Jussi Bjoerling, 49, renowned tenor, a Metropolitan Opera fixture since 1938, who, from his 1929 operatic debut in his native Sweden to his recent re cording of Turandot, displayed a continually improving, distinctive and beautiful voice; of a heart attack; in Siar, Sweden. The heart seizure was at least his fourth since 1959, including one in March at London's Covent Garden while singing Rodolfo in La Boheme. With the Queen Mother in the audience, Bjoerling insisted on completing the performance after only a 30-minute break.

Died. Ralph Gilmour Brooks, 62, a fast-talking (once clocked at 487 words per minute and nicknamed "Babbling") school superintendent who in 1959 became the first Democratic Governor of Nebraska in 18 years, was running this year for the U.S. Senate; of a heart attack; in Lincoln, Neb.

Died. Jimmy Savo (born Sava), 64, gifted vaudeville and Broadway pantomimist of the 19205 and 19305 who made famous his baggy pants and his expression of wile-eyed innocence; of a heart attack; in Terni, Italy. Breaking in as an amateur juggler before the age of ten, the Bronx-born comic sometimes broke his eloquent silence, as in his famed renditions of River, Stay 'Way from My Door and One Meat Ball, hit his Broadway peak in 1938 in The Boys from Syracuse, in 1946 made a nightclub comeback following a leg amputation for a malignant tumor.

Died. Earl Kemp Long, 65, madcap brother of Louisiana's Huey Long and a three-time Governor of the state; of a heart attack; in Alexandria, La. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. William Francis O'Neil, 75, rugged, restless founder in 1915 and president until last April of the diversified industrial giant, The General Tire & Rubber Co.; of a heart ailment; in Akron, Ohio. A onetime worker in his father's Akron department store and later a Kansas City Firestone dealer, "W.O." O'Neil boosted General into the rubber industry's "Big Five" before branching in the 19405 into radio (as a sounding board to blast the United Rubber Workers) and rocketry (after a son was lost when a World War II rescue plane was unable to take off). Although his battle to acquire "enough diversification so that my sons [four surviving] wouldn't have to scrap with each other" eventually made him the producer of everything from badminton birds to wrought iron. O'Neil kept tabs on the bosses of his 46 far-flung subsidiaries and affiliates with the frequent query, "Why the hell aren't you fellows making more money?" Last year his General Tire, which netted $620 in 1915, made $26 million on a $703 million gross.

Died. Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, 79, widow of Pennsylvania's former Republican Governor Gifford Pinchot, herself a headline-making political activist twice defeated in congressional campaigns; of a circulatory ailment; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Edith Nourse Rogers, 79, Republican Massachusetts Congresswoman fDEGr 35 years, a descendant of a Salem witch and longtime legislative champion of armed service veterans; of a heart attack; in Boston.

Died. Vincent Riggio, 82, president from 1946 to 1950 and board chairman the following year of The American Tobacco Co.; of a heart attack; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. Born in Sicily, Riggio was a $3-a-week Manhattan pantsmaker at 14, got a job selling Pall Malls in 1905. Possessed of a fluent tongue, an active imagination and a driving manner, Riggio was chosen to introduce Lucky Strikes in 1917, replaced flamboyant George Washington Hill as American Tobacco's president in 1946.

Died. Wilhelm Pieck, 84, patriarch of the German Communist Party and since 1949 East Germany's first President; of a heart attack; in East Berlin. A survival artist who deserted the Kaiser's army in World War I, but returned to Germany in 1918 to become a charter member of the German Communists' central commit tee, Pieck escaped to the Soviet Union the following year, when the committee's two leaders were slain (said one of them, Rosa Luxemburg: "Pieck was my most faithful, but also my most stupid student"), fled to Russia again before World War II. Coming back with the Red troops, the onetime carpenter was elected to the ceremonial post of President with a bigger vote (99.58%) than Hitler ever got.

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