Friday, May. 21, 1965
Married. Princess Anne of France, 26, daughter of the Count of Paris, Bourbon pretender to the French throne; and Prince Carlos de Bourbon, 27, man-about-Madrid, her tenth cousin, himself a disputed minor pretender to the Spanish throne; in Dreux, France.
Married. Angie Dickinson, 33, long-stemmed Hollywood beauty (Captain Newman, M.D.); and Burt Bacharach Jr., 37, Manhattan songwriter (Magic Moments); both for the second time; in Las Vegas.
Died. Lucian ("Sonny") Banks, 24, journeyman heavyweight boxer from Detroit, whose main claim to fame was his 1962 knockdown of Cassius Clay (Clay kayoed Banks four rounds later); of a blood clot in the brain, three days after he was knocked out in the ninth round by Leotis Martin; in Philadelphia. Banks was the 64th fighter to die of ring injuries in the last five years.
Died. Carole Tyler, 26, party-loving former private secretary to ex-Senate Majority Secretary (and Lyndon Johnson protege) Bobby Baker, who took the Fifth Amendment 22 times in 50 minutes while testifying at the 1964 Senate investigation of his tangled finances; of injuries received when the light plane in which she was a passenger crashed into the ocean near Baker's Carousel Motel in Ocean City, Md.
Died. Alfred M. Frankfurter, 59, editor since 1936 of the influential monthly Art News, a witty critic and historian, who raised his magazine's circulation from 1,400 to 32,000 (largest in its field) by balancing scholarly essays on the past with comprehensive reviews of the present; of a stroke; in Jerusalem.
Died. Leopold Figl, 62, Chancellor of Austria from 1945 to 1953, who spent six years in Nazi concentration camps, later founded the conservative People's Party and led a coalition regime until Julius Raab succeeded him, whereupon he became Foreign Minister, and in 1955 with Raab negotiated the end of Allied occupation; of cancer; in Vienna (see THE WORLD).
Died. Childs Frick, 81, Manhattan art patron, whose coke-and coal-rich father Henry Clay Frick built a $5,000,000 mansion on Fifth Avenue ("I'll make Carnegie's house look like a miner's shack!"), stoked it with $50 million worth of art, and left it to the public as the Frick Collection, which his son supervised as trustee since 1921; of a heart attack; in Roslyn, N.Y.
Died. Frances Perkins, 83, first woman Cabinet officer, F.D.R.'s Secretary of Labor (1933-45); of a stroke; in Manhattan (see THE NATION).
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