Friday, Feb. 09, 1968
Born. To Juan Carlos, 30, son of Spanish Pretender Don Juan, and Princess Sophie, 29, eldest sister of Greece's King Constantine: their third child, first son; in Madrid. Name: Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso Todos Los Santos.
Born. To Elvis Presley, 33, patriarch of rock 'n' roll, and Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, 22, a Tennessee beauty whom he met in Germany during his Army hitch: their first child, a daughter; in Memphis.
Married. Princess Benedikte of Denmark, 23, second of King Frederik IX's three daughters and the last to wed; and Prince Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, 33, German nobleman, lord of a 100,000-acre Westphalian estate that his family has owned for six centuries; in a Lutheran ceremony at King Frederik's family chapel in Fredensborg, Denmark.
Married. Thomas Melville, 37, Roman Catholic missionary in Guatemala, who was relieved of his duties by the Maryknoll Society in December and ordered to return home because of his involvement with Castroite guerrillas (TIME, Feb. 2); and Marian Peter, 39, a Maryknoll nun also ordered from Guatemala for aiding the rebels. The couple went to Mexico, where they informed friends of their marriage.
Died. Lawson Little, 57, amateur golfing great of the 1930s; of a heart attack; in Pebble Beach, Calif. Blessed with a pool hustler's touch on the putting green, Little ranked as one of the game's finest match players. In one stretch of head-to-head competition in 1934 and 1935, he won 31 consecutive matches sweeping both the U.S. and British championships each year. He was less successful as a pro, though he had his moments of glory, most notably when he won the 1940 U.S. Open in a play-off with Gene Sarazen.
Died. Walter Jetton, 61, the Texas "Barbecue King"; of a heart ailment; in Fort Worth. Whenever L.B.J. wanted to throw a man-sized cookout for anyone from White House staffers to Germany's Ludwig Erhard, Jetton rolled up with a fleet of trucks loaded with beef, smoked ranch beans, potato salad, sourdough biscuits and fried apple pies. His secret barbecue sauce, he liked to boast, would "tickle the tongue of your Grandma's shoe."
Died. Robert Wood Johnson, 74, longtime (1932-63) chief executive officer of Johnson & Johnson; in Manhattan. Johnson took over his father's bandage company when Depression sales were only $11 million, diversified into baby products, fabrics and antibiotics, and started an expansion program that eventually took him into 120 countries. At the same time, he boldly raised wages and cut working hours as he became one of the first to urge that big business champion the nation's poor, eventually saw annual sales climb to $462 million by the time he retired.
Died. Anna Christina Olson, 74, most famed of U.S. artists' models (see ART).
Died. Paula Ben-Gurion, 76, wife of the former Israeli Prime Minister; of a hemorrhage; in Beersheba. "I didn't marry a Prime Minister," she said once, "I made one." That was typical of the outspoken, Brooklyn-raised nurse who played wife, secretary and mother to B-G through 51 years of revolution, rule and final retirement to a kibbutz in 1963. Paula's touch was homey--she fetched thermos jugs of coffee to her husband at the Knesset during late-night debates--but her tongue was a national weapon. "I understand," she told Charles de Gaulle, when he adamantly refused to talk to her except in French. "We both have trouble mit da English."
Died. Tsougouharu Foujita, 81, Japanese-born painter who settled in France; of cancer; in Zurich. An eccentric off canvas as well as on, Foujita reached Paris in 1913 in purple morning coat and pith helmet, went on to hobnob with the brilliant and the bizarre in the Montmartre of the '20s. He painted cats by the thousands and almost as many catlike women, achieving the first real fusion of Oriental brushwork and Western oils. He topped off his career in 1966 with a set of giant frescoes for a specially built chapel near Rheims, hoping cheerfully to "atone for 80 years of sins."
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