Monday, Nov. 02, 1970
Married. Lee Marvin, 46, Hollywood's master of violence (Point Blank) and comedy (Cat Ballon); and Pamela Feeley, 39, an old friend from Woodstock, N.Y., whom he has known for 25 years; he for the second time, she for the fourth; in a civil ceremony in Las Vegas.
Died. Belkacem Krim, 47, one of the original Algerian revolutionary leaders who broke with the Boumedienne government; by assassination (garrote); in Frankfurt, Germany.
Died. Richard Hofstadter, 54, U.S. political and social historian, the Pulitzer prizewinning author of The Age of Reform (1955), which charted the great changes in U.S. life from 1890 to 1940; of leukemia; in Manhattan.
Died. John T. Scopes, 70, Tennessee schoolteacher and central figure in the celebrated 1925 "monkey trial"; of cancer; in Shreveport, La. Scopes challenged a state law forbidding the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution. The trial produced one of the great confrontations of U.S. legal history, pitting Clarence Darrow, the noted civil libertarian, against Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan, famed as a fundamentalist orator and three-time Democratic presidential candidate. For eight days the two argued; in the end, a jury "unanimously hot for Genesis," as H.L. Mencken reported, found Scopes guilty, and the judge fined him $100. Tennessee did not repeal the law until 1967.
Died. General Lazaro Crdenas, 75, hero of Mexico, President from 1934 to 1940, and a major power in the ruling Revolutionary Party until his death; of liver disease; in Mexico City. One of the first and most forceful of the Latin American leftist nationalists, Crdenas enraged Britain and the U.S. in 1938 by expropriating $450 million worth of oil holdings owned by foreign concerns. When the U.S. retaliated by cutting off silver purchases, Crdenas agreed to pay some compensation, but continued to seize land owned by Americans. Eventually, Crdenas redistributed more than 40 million acres to Mexico's peasants.
Died. Gladys Mills Phipps, 87. grande dame of U.S. thoroughbred racing; in Westbury, N.Y. The wife of Financier Henry Carnegie Phipps, she founded her Wheatley Stable in 1929, hired such famed trainers as Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, Bill Winfrey and Eddie Neloy, and bred and raced a long list of champions. The greatest of her stallions was Bold Ruler, which grossed $764,204, winning 23 out of 33 races, then became the sport's leading stud from 1963 to 1969, with progeny that won purses of more than $12 million.
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