Friday, Jan. 21, 1966
Born. To Captain James A. Lovell Jr., 37, Gemini 7 astronaut, pilot in last month's rendezvous with Gemini 6, and Marilyn Lovell, 35: their fourth child, second son; in Houston.
Married. Patrick Farrow, 23, commercial-artist son of Actress Maureen O'Sullivan (The Subject Was Roses) and elder brother of Mia; and Susan Erb, 22, a former student at Antioch College; in Cuttingsville, Vt.
Died. Noah Greenberg, 46, founder (in 1952) and director of the New York Pro Musica, a group of ten musicians whose performance of the 12th century Play of Daniel revived interest in the all but forgotten music composed during the five centuries before Bach; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Greenberg dressed his players in medieval garb and used original instruments, mostly odd-looking woodwinds with such names as zink, shawm and Rauschpfeife.
Died. Maurice Neville Hill, 46, British oceanographer, a Cambridge University professor who in 1 947 devised a method of determining the thickness of the earth's crust by measuring the seismic effect of explosions in the water, thereafter led a series of expeditions that in 1953 placed the thickness of the crust beneath the Atlantic at an average three miles; of self-inflicted gunshot wounds; in Cambridge.
Died. Sergei Korolev, 59, long-rumored head of the Soviet space program, now identified by Tass as the hitherto anonymous designer of the 1957 Sputnik and 1959 Lunik satellites as well as the Vostok and Voskhod spacecrafts used in the world's first manned flight (Yuri Gagarin, in 1961) and first space walk (Alexei Leonov, last March); of complications following surgery; in Moscow.
Died. Bryan Winslow Newkirk, 77, Canadian financier, a North Carolina-born wheeler-dealer who promoted Quebec copper and Saskatchewan oil into a network of 61 companies with assets of $30 million, all of which made him a big man in Canada but a fugitive to the U.S. Government for his refusal to pay an estimated $400,000 in taxes on his across-the-border stock operations; of a heart attack; in London, England. Said Newkirk: "They can go to hell. I'm a Canadian citizen, and they can't touch me." Nor could they, for it was not an extraditable charge.
Died. Susannah Robinson Tarkington, 95, widow of Hoosier Novelist Booth Tarkington (The Magnificent Ambersons), whom she married in 1912 and nursed through years of near blindness until his death in 1946; of arteriosclerosis; in Indianapolis.
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