Friday, Dec. 20, 1963

Born. To Carol Burnett, 28, boisterous beanpole who gained fame on CBS's Garry Moore Show, and Joseph Hamilton, 34, its producer: a daughter (Hamilton has eight children by his first wife, whom he divorced in May when he married Miss Burnett); in Manhattan.

Married. Ed Begley, 62, who won a 1962 Academy Award as the raucous Southern political boss in Sweet Bird of Youth; and Helen Jordan, 38, his agent's secretary; he for the third time, she for the second; in Las Vegas.

Married. Lewis Bergman ("Bud") Maytag, 75, who inherited a big share of Iowa's washing-machine fortune, but leaves the business to his nephew Fred, devotes himself to golf promotions and his 13,000-acre Alabama quail-shooting preserve; and Elizabeth Walker Carey, 49, former receptionist to Colorado's Governor John A. Love; both for the second time; in Colorado Springs.

Died. Dinah Washington, 39, jazz singer, an ebullient Chicago Negro who in two decades of nightclub and record performances earned up to $150,000 a year (best-known number: What a Difference a Day Makes), and a title from her fans as "Queen of the Blues"; of unknown causes, while watching television with her seventh husband, Detroit Lions' Halfback Dick ("Night Train") Lane: in Detroit.

Died. Cynthia (real name: Elizabeth Pack Brousse), 53, World War II Mata Hari on the Allied side; of cancer; in Castelnau, France (see THE WORLD).

Died. Sarit Thanarat, 55, Thailand's strongman since 1957; of cirrhosis of the liver, complicated by various other ailments; in Bangkok (see THE WORLD).

Died. Perry Gilbert Eddy Miller, 58, professor of American literature at Harvard since 1946, chronicler of American intellectual history; of acute pancreatitis; in Cambridge. Miller's best-known work was The New England Mind, in which he scouted the view of the Puritan forefathers as bluenose hypocrites, argued that their reconciliation of religious convictions with separation of church and state became a model for subsequent U.S. development of free education, religious tolerance and economic liberalism.

Died. Erich Ollenhauer, 62, chairman of West Germany's Social Democratic Party since 1952, a portly Socialist who spent twelve years in exile during the Nazi dictatorship, returned in 1946 to help rebuild the party under the leadership of fiery Kurt Schumacher, took command after Schumacher's death, and though he attempted to woo the middle-class vote, suffered resounding defeats at the hand of Konrad Adenauer in the 1953 and 1957 elections, after which he increasingly delegated leadership to younger politicians; of a lung ailment; in Bonn.

Died. Avery Comfort Adams, 65, chairman from 1958 until last May of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., the nation's fourth largest producer (1962 sales: $790 million), a suave product of Choate and Yale ('20) who served as a top executive in eight other steel companies before taking over as boss of Jones & Laughlin, where he bitterly contested fellow Choate Man John F. Kennedy's 1962 rollback of steel prices, declaring himself an original member of "the S.O.B. Club"; of a heart attack; in Pittsburgh.

Died. Marcelline Hemingway Sanford, 65, Michigan housewife, elder sister (by H years) of Novelist Ernest Hemingway, who was raised as his twin in Oak Park, III., by their strong-willed mother (same infant dresses, toy guns, dolls, and grade in school), described it all in a 1961 memoir, At the Hemingways; of complications following intestinal surgery; in Grosse Pointe.

Died. Sheik Mahmoud Chaltout, 70, rector of Cairo's 1,000-year-old Al Azhar University, intellectual center of the Moslem world, who since taking over in 1958 doubled university enrollment, stepped up its foreign language program and missionary activities, all the while campaigning unceasingly for greater women's rights ("It is written that women used to argue with the Prophet"); of a heart attack following prostatic surgery; in Cairo.

Died. Theodor Heuss, 79, West Germany's first President (from 1949 to 1959), a courtly, cigar-smoking economist and editor who was forced into virtual house arrest by the Nazis in 1933, emerged after the war to become a leading founder of the business-oriented Free Democratic Party, play a key role in drafting West Germany's postwar constitution, and bring wit and dignity to the ceremonial office of the presidency, in which he was known as "Papa Heuss" for his standing offer to be godfather to the seventh child born in any German family; after a long illness; in Stuttgart.

Died. Frederick Carder, 100, founder (in 1903) and proprietor until 1918 of the Steuben Glass Works in Corning, N.Y., who in the era of Louis Comfort Tiffany developed his own line of gracefully iridescent goblets and urns, was forced to sell his plant due to war shortages to Corning Glass Works but lived to see his early works become collectors' items (rare pieces sell for $300 to $1,500); in Corning.

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