Friday, Jul. 26, 1963
Born. To Fredericka Ann ("Bobo") Sigrist, 23, jet-set heiress to a British aircraft fortune, and Kevin Donovan McClory, 39, Irish movie producer, longtime friend and her husband since March 27 (when the annulment of her marriage to Decorator Gregg Juarez came through): a son; in Dublin.
Died. Lucky (real name: Lucie Daouphars), 41, empress of Paris fashion models until her 1958 retirement, since then their "presidente" as founder of a mutual aid society for needy mannequins, a lynx-eyed Breton who once worked as a welder, discovered there was a better way to put things together and earned from Christian Dior the tribute: "Lucky is fashion turned into theatrical spectacle"; of cancer; in Paris.
Died. Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey, 61, prolific British Labor M.P., a suave, beaky Etonian who left his father's paper, the conservative Spectator, to dally with fascism, then Communism, and finally settle down a little left of center, becoming Minister of Food in the postwar Labor government, imposing much-hated bread rationing and undertaking the ill-fated $100 million "groundnut" scheme, but was nevertheless one of his party's ablest thinkers; of a heart attack; in London.
Died. Walter Louis Hakanson, 64, Denver Y.M.C.A. executive, who in 1932 coined the name "softball" and wrote the first national rules for a game that was invented in 1895 by a Minneapolis fireman (he called it "kitten-ball"), but which never caught on until the Depression, when millions of unemployed found it a way to pass their time; after a long illness; in Denver.
Died. Archbishop Gerald Patrick O'Hara, 68, Pennsylvania-born Roman Catholic delegate to Britain and longtime (1935-59) Bishop of Savannah, a liberal who was a leader in church efforts to improve U.S. race relations, went on to become one of the Vatican's most effective diplomats abroad, serving in Communist Rumania (from which he was expelled in 1950 on trumped-up charges), then as papal nuncio to Ireland before moving in 1954 to London; of a heart attack; in Wimbledon.
Died. Major General Henry Clay Hodges, 103, West Point's oldest alumnus (class of '81), who was born on the frontier, was appointed to the Military Academy by Ulysses S. Grant, campaigned against Comanches on the Pecos, Moro rebels in the Philippines, Pancho Villa in Mexico, and led his 39th Division to France in World War I, before retiring in 1920 to an old soldier's place of honor at every West Point graduation since then except two; in Stamford, Conn.
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