Friday, Oct. 04, 1963
Born. To Major Gherman Titov, 28, Soviet cosmonaut, pilot of the world's second manned space flight (August 1961), and Tamara Titov, 25: their first daughter, second child (a son born in 1960 died in infancy); in Moscow.
Born. To John Charles Daly, 49, M.C. of CBS's What's My Line?, and Virginia Warren Daly, 35, daughter of Chief Justice Earl Warren: their second child, second son; in Manhattan.
Married. Mary Lee Davis, 15, Philadelphia subdeb, niece of Princess Grace of Monaco; and John Paul Jones Jr., 18, a direct descendant of the Revolutionary War hero; after an Aug. 28 elopement touched off a nationwide police hunt that eventually turned up the lovers in Des Moines, where a judge waived Iowa's minimum-age requirement of 16; in Des Moines.
Divorced. Lillian Roth, 52, Broadway singer and sometime alcoholic who wrote a bestseller about it (I'll Cry Tomorrow); and Thomas Burt McGuire, 49, her fifth husband; each sued the other (he accused her of violence and intemperance, she said he fathered an illegitimate child); after 16 years of marriage, no children; in Phoenix.
Died. Trevor Gardner, 48, crusading chief of Air Force research and devel opment, who quit in protest in 1956 (after 11 months in office) following a series of angry rows with Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson over the funds then allotted to ICBM development; in Washington.
Died. Arthur Christiansen, 59, longtime (1933-57) editor of the London Daily Express (circ. 4,300,000), largest Beaverbrook daily, who took command at 29, echoed the Beaver's neo-Victorian politics ("His the policy, mine the paper"), doubled circulation with splashy makeup and exhortations to "Keep the COMMON TOUCH"; of a heart attack; in Norwich, England.
Died. Reginald John Connelly, 67, British composer and music publisher, a onetime vaudeville pianist who authored or co-authored more than 200 songs, but is best remembered for a 1925 ditty dashed off with Fellow Trouper Jimmy Campbell on a train ride between engagements, Show me the Way to Go Home; in Bournemouth, England.
Died. Lyman Beecher Stowe, 82, grandson of Novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin), grandnephew of Abolitionist Preacher Henry Ward Beecher, author of the lively 1934 account of the crusades and peccadilloes of his forebears, Saints, Sinners and Beechers; of pneumonia; in Fairfield, Conn.
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