Monday, Aug. 09, 1971
Born. To Michael Wilding Jr., 18, son of Elizabeth Taylor and Husband No. 2, Actor Michael Wilding, and Beth Wilding, 19: their first child, a daughter; in London. Said Grandma: "It's just fantastic! Just like drinking hot toddy!"
Married. Christina Onassis, 20, only daughter of Aristotle Onassis and his first wife Tina, and Joseph Bolker, 47, a Southern California builder; she for the first time, he for the second; in Las Vegas.
Divorced. Amir Abass Hoveida, 52, Premier of Iran since the 1965 assassination of his predecessor Hassan AH Mansur; and Leyla Emami Hoveida, 38, Mansur's sister-in-law; after five years of marriage, no children; in Teheran.
Died. Jayant Madhvani, 49, East African industrialist and, as the oldest of Uganda's Madhvani brothers, head of one of Black Africa's largest family-owned and locally based corporate empires; of a heart attack; in New Delhi. After the death of his father in 1958, Madhvani, an Indian, became the main driving force behind 63 companies worth $56 million in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Credited with building East Africa's first steel mill, the soft-spoken Hindu also served as globetrotting eco-nomic ambassador for the region. "We don't want history to say," he once observed, "that we lagged behind when the need for economic development was so great."
Died. Norman Reilly Raine, 76, author of short stories and screenplays; of a stroke; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Though he turned out such top movie dramas as The Life of Emile Zola (for which he won a 1937 Oscar), Elizabeth and Essex and A Bell for Adano, Raine was probably best known as the creator of Tugboat Annie, the bumptious, bighearted heroine of 75 Saturday Evening Post stories and the 1933 Hollywood film in which Marie Dressier portrayed Annie and Wallace Beery played Terry, her soused spouse.
Died. Bernhard Paumgartner, 83, Austrian conductor-musicologist and one of the world's foremost authorities on Mozart; in Salzburg. Paumgartner had served only the first five of his 47 years as head of Salzburg's famed Mozarteum (conservatory) when in 1922 he joined Richard Strauss, Director Max Reinhardt and Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal in organizing the Salzburg Festival. Before he began his eleven years as the festival's president in 1960, Paumgartner proved eminently resourceful. Once, while recording Don Giovanni, he went so far as to slap a soprano in order to evoke a properly furious scream from her.
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