Friday, Nov. 05, 1965
Married. John A. Roosevelt, 49, vice president of Wall Street's Bache & Co. and youngest of F.D.R.'s five children; and Irene Boyd McAlpin, 34, Manhattan socialite; both for the second time; in Manhattan, 7 days after he had been divorced in Mexico by Anne Clark Roosevelt, 49, his wife of 27 years.
Divorced. Vincent Edwards, 37, TV's hairy Ben Casey; by Kathy Kersh, 23, sometime model and TV actress; on uncontested grounds of cruelty; after four months of marriage (with a child expected next April); in Los Angeles.
Died. Hans Knappertsbusch, 77, German conductor in the grand tradition of the late 19th century romantics, who through the 1920s and '30s took brilliant charge of, first, the Munich Bavarian State Opera, then the Vienna State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic until the Nazis forced him into virtual retirement from 1938 to '45, after which he came back to crown his career at the 1951 Bayreuth Festival with a daringly modernized performance of Parsifal that sparked a Wagnerian revival throughout Europe; of a heart attack; in Munich.
Died. Arthur Meier Schlesinger Sr., 77, longtime (1924-54) Harvard history professor and father of New Frontiersman Arthur Jr., a specialist in American life who passed up the hurly-burly of active government except for a World War II stint on the Commission on Freedom of the Press, preferring instead to remain in Cambridge, pioneering in what is now known as social history with such highly regarded studies as 1925's Political and Social History of the United States; after a brief illness; in Roxbury, Mass.
Died. William McKechnie, 78, one of baseball's most successful managers, who with a gentle schoolmasterliness that made him known as "the Deacon" won pennants over a 27-year career for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1925), the St. Louis Cardinals (1928) and the Cincinnati Reds (1939 and 1940) and a niche in the Hall of Fame as the only man to take three teams to the top; of pneumonia; in Bradenton, Fla.
Died. Nicholas Kelley, 80, longtime (1937-57) director and general counsel of Chrysler Corp. and senior partner of Kelley, Drye, the Manhattan law firm whose 1960 probe of conflict-of-interest charges involving Chrysler executives toppled President William C. Newberg (his holdings in companies supplying the automaker earned him more than $450,000) and touched off an avalanche of stockholder suits that forced the resignation of flamboyant Board Chairman Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert; of a stroke; in Teaneck, N.J.
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