Friday, Apr. 12, 1963
Divorced. Lindsay Crosby, 25, youngest of Bing's four grown-up boys; by Barbara Fredrickson Crosby. 25, former Las Vegas showgirl: on grounds of cruelty; after three years of marriage, one son; in Los Angeles.
Divorced. By James Arness. 39, towering (19 1/2 hands) horse opera star (Gun-smoke): Virginia Chapman Arness. 41, who lost the custody of their two children to Arness (he charged she was unfit to raise them, had last month allowed their 12-year-old daughter to drink, causing the girl to be hospitalized with acute alcoholic poisoning); after 14 years of marriage, five of separation; in Los Angeles.
Died. Georgy Maximovich Pushkin. 54. Russian diplomat currently ranked as a deputy foreign minister, whose list of achievements includes the efficient Communization of Hungary (as ambassador from 1945 to 1949) and East Germany (as head of the Soviet Diplomatic Mission from 1949 to 1952 and ambassador from 1954 to 1958); of a heart attack; in Moscow.
Died. Daniel Joseph Mahoney. 73. craggy, quick-tongued publisher of the Miami News, who started his newspaper career in Ohio, then went to Florida, where in 1923 he had bought the News for his father-in-law, Newspaper Owner James M. Cox, and proceeded to make life uncomfortable for Miami's race-track racketeers and expose the city's corrupt "termite administration'' in 1938 (for which the News won a Pulitzer Prize); of injuries suffered in the explosion of an anesthetic (cyclopropane) during an operation for lung cancer; in Manhattan.
Died. The Very Rev. Terence Stephen McDermott. 76. only American ever to head Roman Catholicism's Dominican Order of Friars Preachers, an Iowa-born priest who served for an unprecedented 25 years (from 1930 to 1955) as provincial of the Dominicans' St. Joseph Province, which covers the Eastern U.S., was named in 1954 to a nine-month interim term as the order's vicar-general in Rome; in Manhattan.
Died. General Sir Harold Edmund Franklyn, 77, commander of Britain's beleaguered 5th Division in France in 1940. whose gallant attack with his badly outnumbered forces at Arras so alarmed the German High Command that it delayed the Nazi advance, thereby giving the British 24 extra hours during the retreat to Dunkirk; of a heart attack; in Newbury, Berkshire.
Died. Percival Huntington Whaley, 82. founder and editor (from 1918 to 1957) of the "Whaley-Eaton American Letter." first of the commercial newsletters that now flow out of Washington; of pulmonary emphysema; in Washington, D.C.
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