Friday, Sep. 06, 1968
Married. Crown Prince Hassan ibn Talal of Jordan, 20, youngest brother of King Hussein; and Princess Sarvath, 21, daughter of Pakistan's late commissioner to Great Britain; in a Moslem ceremony; in Karachi. Among the 100 guests were Hussein and Pakistani President Ayub Khan.
Married. Crown Prince Harald, 31, only son of King Olav V of Norway and a great-great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria; and Sonja Haraldsen, 31, daughter of a prosperous Oslo clothing manufacturer; in Oslo, in a Lutheran ceremony graced by the reigning monarchs of Sweden, Denmark and Belgium and the Presidents of Iceland and Finland.
Married. Erich Leinsdorf, 56, music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1962; and Vera Graff, 33, Brazilian-born violinist; both for the second time (he divorced his wife of 28 years last May); in Albany, N.Y.
Died. Becky Godwin, 14, adopted daughter of Virginia Governor Mills E. Godwin Jr.; of injuries suffered when she was struck by lightning; in Virginia Beach, Va.
Died. William Talman, 53, stern-faced district attorney of the Perry Mason TV series, who lost all 252 of his cases during the show's nine-year run; of cancer; in Encino, Calif.
Died. Princess Marina, 61, Duchess of Kent, Greek-born aunt of Queen Elizabeth II; of a brain tumor; in London. Gifted with beauty and intelligence (she spoke eight languages), the princess was haunted by tragedy. Her husband, Prince George, son of Britain's King George V, was killed in 1942 while on a wartime mission to Iceland. In spite of it all, she continued in the public eye, sponsored numerous charities, and served as a globetrotting goodwill ambassador for the Queen.
Died. Kay Francis, 63, one of Hollywood's leading ladies in the 1930s and early '40s; of cancer; in Manhattan. Talking movies were still in their infancy in 1929 when Kay, already established on Broadway, gave the industry a boost by bringing beauty, elegance and warmth to some 50 films (One Way Passage, Trouble in Paradise, I Found Stella Parrish).
Died. Georgina Yeats, 75, widow of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats; of a heart attack; in Dublin. "How should I forget the wisdom that you brought/ The comfort that you made?" wrote Yeats in 1919, two years after his marriage to the witty, cultured English woman who was his confidante, and to some extent, muse. In 1963, nearly 30 years after his death, she gave Ireland's National Library a collection of his manuscripts that officials termed "one of the most munificent gifts since the founding of the state."
Died. Harry E. Barnes, 79, controversial author, whose books on politics, history, sociology and penology roused storms of controversy during the 1920s and '30s; of a heart attack; in Malibu, Calif. Ever the gadfly, in 1926 Barnes wrote that the Allies, as well as the Germans, were responsible for World War I, two years later drew the wrath of organized religion by branding God an out-of-date concept "evolved by the semibarbarous Hebrew peoples."
Died. Robert Morane, 82, French aviation pioneer, who helped build Air France, one of the world's largest airlines; in Paris. In 1911, eight years after the Wright brothers began the air age, Morane started Morane-Saulnier, the company that produced some of the first bombers used in World War I. Des Messageries Aeriennes, an air-transport company also founded by Morane, grew into Air Union, one of five large aviation firms that merged to form Air France in 1933.
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