Friday, Nov. 20, 1964
Born. To Frankie Avalon, 24, rock-'n-roller turned cinemactor (Muscle Beach Party), and Kay Deibel, 26, former dental technician: their second child, second son; in Los Angeles.
Born. To Milton Apollo Obote, 39, Prime Minister of Uganda; and Miria Kalule Obote, 28; their first child, a son; in Kampala.
Married. Lance Reventlow, 28, auto-racing son of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton; and Cheryl Holdridge, 19, California-born starlet (A Summer Place); he for the second time (his first: Jill St. John); in Hollywood. Mom's wedding present: a $500,000 mansion in Benedict Canyon, near San Francisco.
Died. Fred Hutchinson, 45, hot-tempered, harddriving manager of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team, a pennant winner in 1961; of lung cancer, which forced him to retire last August; in Bradenton, Fla.
Died. Jimmie Dodd, 54, impresario of Walt Disney's TV kiddie show, the Mickey Mouse Club, from its beginning in 1955 to its finale in 1959, who proved beyond doubt that youth is a state of mind by wearing his "mouseketeer" ears like a crown and praising patience, protein, and Brussels sprouts as if they were the show's sponsors; after a short illness; in Honolulu.
Died. Heinrich von Brentano, 60, West Germany's benign, scholarly Foreign Minister from 1955 to 1961, a founder and former floor leader of Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party, who as minister enthusiastically echoed der A he's support for NATO and the Common Market, while quietly pushing his own vision of a "Christian Western Europe" that would share a single culture, religion and constitution; of cancer; in Darmstadt, Germany.
Died. Dr. Murdock Equen, 72, founder and chief of staff of Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat In firmary, who in the early 1940s came to the rescue of mothers everywhere by pioneering the use of tiny magnets to retrieve from the throats, stomachs and lungs of children all manner of metal objects previously removed by surgery or not at all; of a stroke; in Atlanta.
Died. Randall Davey, 77, leader of Santa Fe's art colony, best known for equestrian studies that convey the raw-edged excitement of race tracks with gaudy colors and slapdash compositions, but most appreciated for his brutally incisive portraits (at fees up to $10,000) of such notables as John Galsworthy and the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal; of injuries when his Jaguar overturned near Baker, Calif.
Died. Walter Deane Fuller, 82, president (1934-50), chairman (1950-57), and most recently director of the Curtis Publishing Co., business-side head of the company before its spectacular decline; of peritonitis following a ruptured appendix, just before he was to attend a directors'" meeting to ponder Curtis' troubles; in Philadelphia (see PRESS).
Died. Montagu Phippen Porch, 87, British soldier, archaeologist and colonial civil servant, who in 1914 at the age of 37 met Lady Randolph Churchill (then 60) at a ball in Rome, married her four years later to become stepfather to Britain's future Prime Minister, Sir Winston, his senior by almost three years; in Glastonbury, England.
Died. Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel, 88, leader of New Orleans' Roman Catholics from 1935 to 1962 and his church's most outspoken integrationist in the hard-core South, a German-born, Harlem-trained priest who shortly before his retirement found himself the target of a Ku Klux Klan burning cross and the concentrated opposition of many prominent New Orleans Catholics (he excommunicated three), nevertheless went ahead and integrated all 153 parochial schools in his archdiocese; of pneumonia; in New Orleans.
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