Friday, Jan. 27, 1967

Born. To Carol Burnett, 32, TV's antic ugly duckling, and Joseph Hamilton, 37, TV producer; their second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Married. Eleanor Clay Ford, 20, Detroit debutante with two Fords in her family, her mother, who was Edsel Ford's only daughter, and her industrial-designer father, whose ancestors (no cars, no kin) were Michigan high society long before the first Model T; and Frederic Avery Bourke Jr., 20, a junior at the University of Michigan.

Married. Paul Hornung, 31, pro football's "Golden Boy" since 1956, now contemplating retirement from the champion Green Bay Packers because of a chronic pinched nerve in his neck; and Pat Roeder, 29, aspiring actress; both for the first time; in Beverly Hills.

Died. Reese ("Goose") Tatum, 45, clown prince of basketball, star of the world-famed Harlem Globetrotters from 1942 to 1955 and since then with his own Harlem Magicians, a jolly black giant of a man who brought razzle-dazzle ball handling to the sort of high art and low comedy that earned him more at his peak ($65,000 a year) than he could have made with a straight pro team; after a long illness; in El Paso.

Died. Ann Sheridan, 51, Hollywood's "Oomph Girl" of the 1930s, '40s and early '50s, whose red-haired beauty and deep velvet voice perfectly suited the gun molls and dance-hall girls she played in scores of potboilers (Torrid Zone) and some critical successes (King's Row), then, as her looks and the movieland whirl (including marriages to Actors Edward Norris and George Brent) faded, went into semiretirement until last year, when she married Actor Scott McKay and made a comeback in CBS's comedy series, Pistols 'n' Petticoats; of cancer; in Los Angeles.

Died. Barney Ross, 57, prizefighter, who won three (lightweight, junior welterweight and welterweight) world titles in the 1930s, and a couple of important other victories in later life; of throat cancer; in Chicago. The son of a Chicago shopkeeper, Ross was a bookish 14-year-old studying to be a Hebrew teacher when his father was murdered by two hoodlums, who subsequently went free on a technicality. Raging at the law, Barney took to the streets himself, finally became a fighter to feed his family. His boxing style was all guts--and so was his style as a U.S. Marine on Guadalcanal in 1942, when he killed 22 of the enemy while guarding three wounded buddies and nursing his own wounds. That action got him a Silver Star, along with narcotics addiction from overdoses of painkilling morphine. But he eventually beat that, too, because as he once said: "A champion has the right to pick the way he goes, and I want to go out like a champion."

Died. Jesse W. Tapp, 67, board chairman from 1955 to 1965 of the Bank of America, the world's largest bank, an indefatigable economist specializing in agricultural financing who was director of the Commodity Credit Corp. for six years during the Depression, was lured to "the bank for little people" by then President L. M. Giannini in 1939, and helped boost B.O.A.'s assets from $2 billion to $16 billion while acting as an agricultural adviser to five Presidents, including Dwight Eisenhower, whose farm programs he helped formulate in 1953; of arteriosclerosis; in San Francisco.

Died. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, 82, Floradora Girl of the early 1900s and central figure in one of this century's most sensational crimes of passion; in Santa Monica, Calif. Sixteen, nubile and stagestruck, Evelyn arrived in Manhattan from Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1901, joined the chorus line, became the mistress of famed Architect Stanford White (Pennsylvania Station), and later married a weak-minded millionaire playboy named Harry K. Thaw--whom she goaded with lurid tales of her escapades with White. On June 25, 1906, Thaw walked up to White in a cabaret, and without a word put three bullets in his head--whereupon Evelyn went to her husband's defense, helped get him acquitted on grounds of insanity. Thaw spent 15 years in and out of asylums and eventually divorced Evelyn. When he died in 1947, he left her $10,000. A Philadelphia chorus girl whom he had met only once got $40,000.

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