Friday, Aug. 11, 1967
Married. George Henry Hubert Las-celles, 44, Earl of Harewood and 18th in line to the British throne; and Patricia Tuckwell Shmith, 38; in New Canaan, Conn, (see MODERN LIVING).
Divorced. Van Heflin, 56, veteran star of Hollywood (Once A Thief) and Broadway (A Case of Libel); by Frances Heflin, 46; on grounds of mental cruelty (she said he had become sullen, moody and indifferent); after 25 years of marriage, three children; in Santa Monica, Calif.
Died. Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 59, scion of Germany's Krupp empire (see WORLD BUSINESS).
Died. Evelyn Olliphant de Seversky, 60, wife of Plane Designer Alexander de Seversky and herself a notable aviatrix, a New Orleans socialite who in 1930 took up flying to surprise her husband, by the late '30s was expert enough to help test-fly his planes until a heart condition grounded her; by her own hand (.38-cal. pistol); in Northport, L.I.
Died. Margaret Kennedy, 71, British author, who in 1924 scored an international bestseller with The Constant Nymph, a bittersweet portrait of an erratic musician's seven free-spirited children, produced 17 other novels (1964's Not in the Calendar), most of them skillfully told tales with intricate plots; in Adderbury, Oxfordshire.
Died. Clarence Belden Randall, 76, elder statesman of the steel industry, who was president (1949-53) and board chairman (1953-56) of Chicago's Inland Steel Co., No. 7 U.S. producer, but was better known as a forwardthinking internationalist, championing the Marshall Plan as its first steel ad viser and in 1953 heading Eisenhower's Foreign Economic Policy Commission which convinced Congress to take a few halting steps to lower U.S. trade barriers; of a heart attack; in Ishpeming, Mich.
Died. Claude A. Barnett, 77, Negro journalist, who in 1919 started the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press, a news service for community weeklies (225 at the high point in 1935), until his retirement in 1963 campaigned tirelessly for civil rights and chronicled the emergence of Africa's peoples; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Chicago.
Died. Brigadier General William Jefferson Glasgow, 101, West Point's oldest living graduate (class of '91), a Cavalry officer who chased Western outlaws in 1893, landed with the Cuban occupation force during the Spanish-American War in 1898, and rode after Pancho Villa in Mexico in 1916; apparently of a heart attack; in El Paso, Texas.
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