Friday, Mar. 09, 1962
Born. To Notre Dame Senior Ronald Como, 22, and Melanie Adams Como, 22: their first child, a daughter. Crooner Perry Como's first grandchild. Name: Melanie Perri Roselle.
Born. To Leonard Bernstein, 43, kinetic conductor of the New York Philharmonic, and blonde, Costa Rica-born Actress Felicia Montealegre Bernstein, 40: their third child, second daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Maria Nina Felicia.
Married. Nancy Oakes de Marigny von Hoyningen Huene, 36, daughter of Canadian Midas Sir Harry Oakes, whose 1943 murder in the Bahamas is still unsolved; and Patrick Tritton, 30, Mexico-based British businessman; she for the third time, he for the first; in Mexico City.
Died. Harold Ogden ("Chic") Johnson, 66, junior member of the comedy team of Olsen & Johnson, a rollicksome, rubber-faced wag who in 47 years in vaudeville never let a custard pie go unthrown and grew rich, together with Straight Man "Ole" Olsen (currently touring in Europe), by endlessly repeating their zany show, Hellzapoppin, a unique blend of slapstick and what O & J christened "gonk," which they defined as "hokum with raisins in it"; of a kidney ailment; in Las Vegas.
Died. Roscoe Ates, 67, slight, Mississippi-born Hollywood comedian who cured himself of stammering as a youth, made a lifelong hobby of helping other stammerers, but won his film fame and a lush living as a stuttering stooge; of lung cancer; in Encino, Calif.
Died. Admiral Richard Lansing Conolly, 69, U.S.N. (ret.), daring amphibious assault commander who earned the nickname "Close-in Conolly," and more medals than any other U.S. flag officer in World War II for his muzzle-to-muzzle duels with enemy coast artillery, after the war served twice as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations and headed the Naval War College before moving on to the presidency of Long Island University, whose enrollment increased fivefold during his administration; in the jetliner crash into Jamaica Bay, N.Y. that took 94 other lives, including that of his wife, Helen Jacobs Conolly, 62 (see THE NATION).
Died. W. (for William) Alton Jones, 70, chairman of the executive committee of Cities Service Co. and board chairman of Richfield Oil Co., a Missouri farmer's son who rose from a janitor's job to become one of the nation's wealthiest executives, guided Cities Service out of a pre-Depression debt of $500 million to its present billion-dollar assets by a policy of worldwide expansion, won national gratitude for pushing through the World War II construction of the Big and Little Inch pipelines; in the Idlewild jet crash.
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