Friday, Dec. 13, 1963
Born. To Princess Birgitta, 26, onetime gym teacher, granddaughter of Sweden's King Gustaf VI Adolf; and Prince Johann Georg von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, 30, archaeology student: their second child, first daughter; in Munich. Name: Desiree Margarethe Victoria Louise Sybilla Katharina Maria.
Married. Alan Dobie, 31, spit-and-polish R.A.F. drillmaster in the hit Broadway comedy, Chips With Everything; and Maureen Scott, 20, English folk singer; he for the second time; in a 9 a.m. ceremony Monday at Gerrard's Cross, Buckingham, for which Dobie jetted to London and back without missing a single performance.
Married. Edward William Carter, 52, president of Broadway-Hale Stores, pillar of California community enterprise (fund raiser for the Los Angeles art museum, University of California regent); and Hannah Locke Caldwell, 49, member of the first (1936) U.S. women's Olympic ski team; both for the second time; in Menlo Park, Calif.
Died. Captain Michael Donald Groves, 27, of the Army's Honor Guard Company, who directed the mixed service detachment that stood vigil over President Kennedy's casket in the White House and at the Capitol; of a heart attack; at Fort Myer, Va.
Died. Sabu Dastagir, 39, Indian-born cinemactor, who became a star at twelve when cast by Director Robert Flaherty in the title role of Elephant Boy, starred in a herd of Eastern westerns (Drums, The Thief of Baghdad); of a heart attack; in Hollywood.
Died. Grant Stockdale, 48, Miami real estate broker and early Kennedy-for-President booster, who was appointed ambassador to Ireland in March 1961 in recognition of campaign work and generous party donations, but was forced to resign after serious reverses in the May 1962 stock market slump, after which increasing nervous strain left him unable to cope with the news of the President's assassination; by his own hand (defenestration); in Miami.
Died. Elizabeth Turrill Bentley, 55, onetime Communist whose disclosures of wartime Soviet espionage led to the conviction of more than a dozen top Reds between 1948 and 1951; following surgery for an abdominal tumor; in New Haven, Conn. A frumpy New Englander who studied socialism at Vassar ('30), Elizabeth Bentley joined :he Communist Party in 1935 when she fell in love with Soviet Spy Jacob Golos, became an underground courier Between New York and Washington; Golos died in 1943, and Bentley soon after left the party, calling Communism "a kind of missionary complex, upside down," provided the FBI with information that implicated Assistant Secretary of Treasury Harry Dexter White (he was never indicted) and helped convict WPB Aide William Remington of perjury and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of stealing atomic secrets.
Died. Jimmy Hatlo, 65, cartoonist, who for nearly 30 years skewered the foibles of white-collar America in his syndicated Hearst feature, "They'll Do It Every Time"; of a heart attack; in Pebble Beach, Calif. In Hatlo's mildly cynical humor, people typically said one thing while doing another--such as the lush who tumbled off the wagon on Jan. 2. And their names were in character: J. Pluvius Bigdome, president of Bilgewater Beverage; Tremblechin, his office stooge; and little Iodine, Tremblechin's daughter, who proved so antiseptic that she earned a strip of her own.
Died. Phil Baker, 67, master of ceremonies from 1942 to 1950 on CBS radio's pre-inflation giveaway Take It Or Leave It, who asked questions of such amiable simplicity ("Which of these MacDonalds had a farm?" Old.) that his challenge, "Now here's the $64 question," found its way into the language; of cancer; in Copenhagen.
Died. Edward Kellogg Strong Jr., 79, California psychologist and inventor of the Strong Vocational Test, which used hobbies and emotional responses to determine occupations for the subject; of cancer; in Menlo Park, Calif.
Died. Archibald Henderson, 86, University of North Carolina mathematician, official biographer of George Bernard Shaw, who was a crony of Mark Twain's and studied relativity with Einstein before asking in 1904 to become Shaw's biographer, so impressed The Beard with his erudition (G.B.S. called him "the Grand Panjandrum") that he produced not one but three full-scale lives of the Methuselan playwright; of a heart ailment; in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Died. The Most Rev. Alfonso Carinci, 101, oldest Roman Catholic bishop, since 1956 secretary emeritus of the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of Rites, who recalled the first Vatican Council, which ended in 1870, celebrated his centenary while attending meetings of the second; in Rome.
Died. George Eli Whitney, 101, Yankee tinkerer, inventor (in 1896) of the two-cylinder auto steam engine that powered the first Locomobile, a grandnephew of the inventor of the cotton gin, who dreamed up more than 150 gizmos, including a garage-door closer and a portable asphalt brick machine; in Manchester, N.H.
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