Friday, Jul. 16, 1965
Born. To King Constantine II of the Hellenes, 25, Europe's youngest reigning monarch; and Queen Anne-Marie, 18, daughter of Denmark's King Frederik: their first child, a daughter; in Mon Repos Palace, Corfu.
Married. George Stevens Jr., 33, U.S. Information Agency film director, winner of two Venice documentary awards, son of Hollywood Producer-Director George Stevens; and Elizabeth Guest Condon, 27, daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Raymond Guest, grandniece of U.S. President James K. Polk; she for the second time; in London.
Marriage Revealed. Ernest Borgnine, 47, TV's buoy-shaped Commander McHale (McHale's Navy); and Donna Granoucci Rancourt, 32, sometime movie actress (The Interns); she for the second time, he for the fourth; in Juarez, Mexico; last month.
Died. Lisa Howard, 39, throaty-voiced blonde actress who in 1960 gave up a lucrative career in daytime TV soapers to become a persistent if somewhat erratic network television newscaster (ABC's News With the Woman's Touch); by her own hand (sleeping pills); three weeks after a miscarriage; in East Hampton, L.I. In 1960, she scored an exclusive 108-minute interview with Soviet Premier Khrushchev, whom she accosted disguised as a Russian cleaning woman, and in 1963 befriended Cuban Leaders Fidel Castro and Che Guevara; she campaigned last fall for the re-election of New York Republican Senator Kenneth Keating (Castro's old foe, who first broke the story of the missile sites in Cuba), shortly thereafter was fired by ABC.
Died. Porfirio Rubirosa y Ariza, 56, former Dominican diplomat, sportsman and international heartbreaker; of injuries suffered in an auto accident (see THE WORLD).
Died. Paul Mantz, 61, ace Hollywood stunt pilot, three-time winner of the Bendix speed trophy, former copilot of Amelia Earhart's, who logged almost 20,000 hair-raising hours of footage in which he flew through an open hangar (Airmail, 1932), under the Brooklyn Bridge (Blaze of Noon, 1947), into the Grand Canyon (This Is Cinerama, 1952), and crashed expertly into countless mountains and buildings; of injuries sustained in the $90,000 custom-built craft he was flying for 20th Century-Fox's new Flight of the Phoenix; in Buttercup Valley, Calif.
Died. Moshe Sharett, 70, Israel's brilliant, quick-tongued (eight languages) former Premier (1953-55), a Russian-born farmer's son who in 1906 migrated with his family to Turkish-ruled Palestine, represented his unborn nation in negotiations with world leaders, obtaining in 1947 passage of the U.N.'s Partition Resolution establishing a separate Jewish state; of cancer; in Jerusalem. As Israel's first Foreign Minister he tried unsuccessfully to pursue a policy of conciliation toward the Arabs and argued against Premier David Ben-Gurion's tough response to Arab border incursions; at length, just four months before the 1956 invasion of Sinai, he was forced out as Foreign Minister, thereafter devoted his time to Israel's immigration problems.
Died. John Vivian Truman, 79, Harry's younger brother, another outspoken, poker-playing Missourian, who in 1948 became district director of the Federal Housing Administration in western Missouri, refusing any higher position after Harry's election ("I have no danged reason to go to Washington"); after a long illness; in Grandview, Mo.
Died. Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, 87, longtime dean of Barnard College (1911-47), formidable though warmly admired teacher ("It's fun to use your mind"), champion of women's rights and supranationalism, who called students by their last names and disapproved of coed schooling, nevertheless allowed smoking and introduced courses in sex hygiene; the U.S.'s only woman delegate at the 1945 founding of the U.N.; of a heart attack; in Centerville, Mass.
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