Friday, May. 12, 1967
Born. To Cass Elliott, 23, Brunnhilde-sized pop rocker with The Mamas and the Papas quartet, and her husband, Singer Jim Hendricks, 26, from whom she is separated: a daughter; in Los Angeles, thus making her the group's first bona fide Mama.
Married. Infanta Maria del Pilar, 30, eldest child of Don Juan de Borbon y Battenberg, exiled Pretender to the Spanish throne, and sister of Juan Carlos, to whom Franco may one day give the royal nod; and Luis Gomez-Acebo, 32, handsome grandson of a Spanish marquis; in a fittingly royal wedding to which her father invited "any Spaniard who happens to be in Portugal" (some 3,000 responded); in Lisbon.
Married. Elvis Presley, 32, a founding father of rock 'n' roll and one of the best-paid performers in show-biz history (1966 earnings: about $4,000,000); and Priscilla Beaulieu, 21, smashing brunette daughter of a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, whom Elvis started courting in 1959 when he was doing his Army hitch in Germany; both for the first time; in a modest civil ceremony in Las Vegas.
Died. Klavdia Kosygin, 58, wife of Soviet Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin who married him in 1924 when Kosygin was a young engineer at a consumers' cooperative in Siberia, later proved considerably different from the usual run of dowdy Kremlin wives as a well-dressed and charmingly talkative (in fluent French) diplomatic asset; of cancer; in Moscow.
Died. Direck Jayanama, 62, Thai patriot, Deputy Premier in 1946-47 and seven-time Cabinet minister, who during his service as Foreign Minister in World War II managed with great sangfroid to butter up Thailand's Japanese masters while at the same time holding a top post in the resistance movement against Japan, early in 1945 led a secret mission to Ceylon to confer with the Allied command about organizing a Free Thai uprising, and was later awarded the U.S. Medal of Freedom; of stomach cancer; in Bangkok.
Died. Louis Dreyfus, 89, aggressive German-born head of one of the world's largest music-publishing empires, Chappell & Co., who in the 1890s followed his older brother Max to the U.S., where they made a fortune publishing the works of Jerome Kern and George Gershwin, then shifted to London in 1929 to take over Britain's venerable Chappell & Co., establishing branches throughout the world and tying up the publishing rights for just about every major Broadway composer from Romberg to Loewe; of a heart attack; in London.
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