Friday, Sep. 29, 1961
Married. Jules Feiffer, 32, bestselling (Sick, Sick, Sick) cartoonist whose syndicated strip, Feiffer, satirizes the foibles of a generation bugged by Freud, Zen and the H-bomb; and Judith Sheftel, 31, American Heritage editor; in Manhattan.
Married. Theodore Samuel ("Ted") Williams, 43, longtime Boston Red Sox slugger ("I'm still probably as good a hitter as there is around") turned Sears, Roebuck sales promotion star; and Lee Howard, 36, beauteous, blonde fashion model; both for the second time; in Cambridge, Mass.
Married. Alfred Corning Clark, 45, multimillionaire scion of the Singer Sewing Machine clan; and Alicja Darr (nee Kopczynska) Purdom, 30, Polish-born painter once stormily married to Cinemactor Edmund Purdom; he for the sixth time (in 20 years), she for the second; in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Died. Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold, 56, second Secretary-General of the United Nations, a dauntless Swede who pursued peace but lived with conflict; in a plane crash; near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (see THE WORLD).
Died. Marion Cecilia Davies (nee Douras), 61, Hearstwhile empress of Hollywood; of cancer; in Hollywood (see SHOW BUSINESS).
Died. Earle Ensign Dickson, 68, longtime employee of New Jersey's Johnson & Johnson surgical supply company who, while treating his wife's finger for a kitchen knife mishap in 1920, inadvertently invented the Band-Aid, which eventually earned his firm $30 million in annual sales and Dickson a vice-presidency; after a long illness; in New Brunswick, N.J.
Died. Monrad Charles ("Mon") Wallgren, 70, soft-spoken New Deal Democrat from Washington State, a onetime jeweler and U.S. amateur billiards champion who rose successively to Congressman (1932-1940), Senator (1940-44) and Governor (1944-48), went into political eclipse after he lost the 1948 gubernatorial race, was rejected by the Senate when Harry Truman nominated him to the National Security Resources Board in 1949 but finally won confirmation as a member of the Federal Power Commission; as a consequence of injuries suffered in an auto accident in July; in Olympia, Wash.
Died. Lieut. Colonel Oreste Pinto, 71, master Allied "spy catcher" in two wars, a Dutch-born counterintelligence expert whose command of 13 languages and tenacious memory ("I can still remember not only what presents were given to me on my third birthday but who gave them and when they arrived") led SHAEF Commander Dwight Eisenhower to hail him as "the greatest living authority on security"; of chronic bronchitis; in London.
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