Friday, Jun. 30, 1967
Born. To Luci Johnson Nugent, 19, and Patrick John Nugent, 23: a boy, President Johnson's first grandchild; in Austin, Texas.
Born. To Maggie Smith, 32, ebullient, rusty-haired member of London's National Theater Company (Desdemona to Sir Laurence Olivier's Othello) and film actress (The V.I.P.s), and Fellow Company Actor Robert Stephens, 36, versatile screen performer (Morgan!): their first child, a 7 1/2lb. boy named Christopher, whose premature arrival (by caesarean section) occasioned the announcement that the couple was married (she for the first time, he for the second) secretly last month; in London.
Born. To Lord Rothermere, 69, Fleet Street press lord (London Daily Mail, Evening News, Daily Sketch), and Lady Rothermere, 36, Texas heiress and niece of Dallas Oil Magnate Clint Murchison: their first child (he has a son, heir to the peerage, and two daughters by his first marriage; she has six sons by her prior marriage), a boy; in London. Name: Esmond Vyvyan.
Married. Constantine FitzGibbon, 48, prolific American-born novelist (When the Kissing Had to Stop) and biographer (The Life of Dylan Thomas); and Marjorie Steele Hartford Sutton, 37, a sometime painter more widely remembered for forfeiting a cool $60,000 annual alimony from her first husband, A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, to marry No. 2, British Actor Dudley Sutton; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Bantry, Ireland.
Married. Richard Kollmar, 55, onetime Broadway producer (Plain and Fancy), longtime radio chit-chat man (from 1945 to 1963, with his late wife Dorothy Kilgallen on Breakfast With Dorothy and Dick), now proprietor of Manhattan's Pastiche Gallery; and Mrs. Anne Fogarty, 48, designer of stylish medium-priced frocks; both for the second time, in a civil ceremony (the bride wore a Fogarty) in Manhattan.
Married. Dr. Albert Sabin, 60, developer of the oral polio vaccine; and Mrs. Jane Blach Warner, attractive Cincinnati divorcee; both for the second time (his first wife died of a drug overdose last year); in a Reform Jewish ceremony at Cincinnati's Holmes Hospital, where the bridegroom, confined to a wheelchair, was recovering from bites inflicted by his pet dachshund.
Married. Hamilton Fish, 78, sole survivor (Harvard, '10) of Walter Camp's alltime, all-America football team and a courtly, conservative blueblood who took frequent potshots at the New Deal as a third-generation, longtime (1920-1945) Congressman from F.D.R.'s own New York district; and Mrs. Marie Blackton, 56, descended from a patrician Russian military family; both for the second time; in an Episcopal ceremony in New York.
Died. J. (for Jesse) Arthur Younger, 74, eight-term G.O.P. Congressman from San Mateo County, Calif., a prosperous San Francisco savings and loan executive who became an early (1954) exponent of giving Cabinet status to big-city interests under an etymologically questionable but politically sensible "Department of Urbiculture," the conceptual forebear of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; of leukemia; in Washington.
Died. Theodore H. Barth, 75, co-inventor (with the late Carl L. Norden) of World War II's famed Norden bombsight, a New York-born engineer who started collaborating with the older, more inspired Norden in 1923 and in 1939 under Navy commission lifted off the drawing board and into production the compact (12-in. by 19-in.), though enormously complex, bombsight that in the final phase used only two settings, gave U.S. bombardiers their much-touted "pickle-barrel" accuracy; from a duodenal ulcer; in Wareham, Mass.
Died. Reginald Denny, 75, English-born screen and stage actor, a veteran of more than 200 films, whose boyish good looks won him all-American parts in Hollywood's silent days, but whose unmistakably British diction led to a talkie career of English character and comedy roles, including Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House and a memorable Broadway takeover as Colonel Pickering in My Fair Lady; of a stroke; in Middlesex.
Died. Dr. Charles Armstrong, 80, an Ohio-born research physician for the National Institute of Health who, in 1939, cultured a strain of human polio virus that could paralyze mice, thus giving scientists a low-cost laboratory animal, a breakthrough that inaugurated 16 years of intense research, climaxing in development of the Salk vaccine; of uremia; in Chevy Chase, Md.
Died. Max Kiss, 84, inventor of Ex-Lax, the world's first and still largest selling (1966 company sales: over $10 million) palatable purgative, a Hungarian immigrant who worked his way through pharmacy college, then proceeded to rescue countless kiddies from the ghastly grasp of castor oil by mixing a tasteless powder called phenolphthalein and chocolate flavoring into Ex-Lax, a name he adapted from a Hungarian parliamentary term (ex lex), meaning an extraordinary suspension of governmental activity; of a heart attack; in Atlantic Beach, L.I.
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