Friday, Apr. 23, 1965
Born. To Andy Williams, 34, TV's top-rated weekly crooner (Moon River), and Claudine Longet Williams, 24, his French-born wife: their second child, first son; in Burbank, Calif.
Married. Sylvie Vartan, 20, France's blonde, rock-'n'-rolling ye-ye-girl; and Johnny Hallyday (real name: Jean-Philippe Smet), 21, the Parisian Presley; in Loconville, near Paris.
Married. Thomas Schippers, 35, brilliant, boyishly handsome conductor of New York's Metropolitan Opera Co.; and Elaine Lane ("Nonie") Phipps, 26, socialite daughter of Palm Beach's former ten-goal-rated polo star, Michael Phipps; in Manhattan.
Married. Paul-Henri Spaak, 66, Belgium's outspoken Socialist Foreign Minister and former NATO Secretary-General; and Simonne Rikkers Hottlet Dear, 56, an Antwerp-born divorcee and longtime friend; he for the second time (his first wife, an invalid for many years, died last August), she for the third; at Eze, on the French Riviera.
Died. David Edward Bright, 58, West Coast industrialist (community TV antennas) and philanthropist, who helped lead the fund drive for Los Angeles County's new $12 million Museum of Art (TIME, April 2), while amassing a large and varied private collection (Picasso, Braque, Modigliani, Kandinsky, Moore); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan.
Died. Sydney Chaplin, 80, Charlie's half-brother (his elder by four years) and former business manager, an actor in his own right, who appeared with Charlie in Mack Sennett's early Keystone Cops comedies, starred in the first of four film versions of Charley's Aunt in 1925, ended his movie career in 1939 after assisting his brother in The Great Dictator, spending his remaining years in Switzerland and France; of heart and other ailments; in Nice.
Died. Nathalie Henderson Swan, 83, a lifelong humanitarian who as a debutante decided in 1901 "that privilege carried with it a responsibility to the community," together with Friend Mary Harriman (Averell's sister) founded New York's Junior League, nucleus of the highly social volunteer women's service organization that now boasts 89,700 members in the U.S., Canada and Mexico; of a heart ailment; in Boca Grande, Fla.
Died. Roger Sommer, 87, pioneer French aviator who in August 1909 kept his Farman biplane aloft for 2 hr. 27 min. to break Wilbur Wright's year-old endurance record, days later packed his young son aboard to make the world's first passenger flight, later retired from aviation to join his family's floor-covering business; of a heart attack; in Ste.-Maxime, near Marseille.
Died. Lieut. General Alfredo Guzzoni, 88, one of Italy's most decorated soldiers, who led Mussolini's troops to victory in Albania in 1939, directed Il Duce's back-door attack on France in 1940, ignominiously ended his career in Sicily in the 1943 Allied invasion; of bronchial complications; in Rome.
Died. Dr. David Saville Muzzey, 94, historian and longtime (1923-40) Columbia University professor, whose A History of Our Country, first published in 1911, has remained the nation's most widely used (by more than 30 million students) high school history text, surviving repeated attempts to censure it by the D.A.R. and other groups, which claimed it was "pro-British"; of pneumonia; in Yonkers, N.Y.
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