Friday, Dec. 15, 1961
Born. To R. (for Rupert) Vance Hartke, 42, ex-mayor of Evansville, Ind., who in 1958 became his state's first Democratic U.S. Senator in 20 years, and Martha Tiernan Hartke, 41, his Indiana University sweetheart: their seventh child, third daughter; in Fairfax, Va.
Born. To Sir Laurence Olivier, 54, Britain's towering trouper, and his Tony-winning third wife, Actress Joan (A Taste of Honey) Plowright, 32: a son, their first child and his second (the other, by First Wife Jill Esmond, is now 24 and roving in the Far East); in Hove, East Sussex.
Married. Princess Antoinette Louise Alberte Suzanne Grimaldi, 40, dark, svelte first lady of Monaco until her brother, Prince Rainier, wedded (as she put it) "that movie star"; and Jean Charles Rey, 47, debonair Monaco lawyer; both for the second time (Antoinette is divorced from roving Riviera Tennis Pro Aleco Noghes); in a civil ceremony at The Hague witnessed by her mother, Princess Charlotte, but not by Rainier,
Died. His Highness Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Yeshwant Rao ("Junior") Holkar Bahadur, Maharaja of Indore, 53, progressive-minded, Oxford-educated ruler of 1,500,000 worshipful subjects from 1926 until his pensioning-off by the Indian government in 1948; of cancer; in New Delhi. Of low caste despite his princely rank (he was descended from a land-grabbing shepherd), the Maharaja devoted large chunks of an estimated prewar income of $70 million a year to the delights of shikar (hunting), zenana (the harem), and the support of the two American wives whom he divorced in Reno, but sponsored enough trail-blazing social measures, such as public education and the abolition of child marriage, to justify in the eyes of his people the import of his title: "His Highness the Lord Paramount, King of Kings, One Quarter Better Than Anyone Else."
Died. The Most Reverend Francis Patrick Keough, D.D., 70, unassuming, cigar-smoking 11th Archbishop of Baltimore (the U.S.'s first Roman Catholic see), an Irish immigrant's son who served for 7 years as administrative board chairman of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, was known as "Archbishop of the poor" for his lifelong ministrations to orphans and the aged; of complications following a stroke; in Washington.
Died. Judge Emil E. Fuchs, 83, baseball-mad onetime New York magistrate who became principal owner of the Boston Braves in 1923, and despite an endless game of managerial musical chairs (which featured Rogers Hornsby, Bill McKechnie and the judge himself), never succeeded in getting the team above a fourth-place finish before it bankrupted him in 1935; after a long illness; in Boston.
This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.