Monday, May. 14, 1973
Married. Charlotte Ford, 32, elder daughter of Automobile Mogul Henry Ford II; and J Anthony Forstmann, 35, head of a New York investment firm; both for the second time; in Manhattan. A longtime member of the Sun Valley-St.-Moritz set, Ford surprised suitors and family alike in 1965 with her marriage to Greek Shipping Magnate Stavros Niarchos, then 56. The couple had one daughter before their 14-month marriage ended in divorce.
Marriage Revealed. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 54, Nobel-prizewinning Russian author whose books (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovlch, August 1914) are banned in the Soviet Union but are bestsellers in the West; and Natalya Svetlova, 34, mathematician and the mother of Solzhenitsyn's two sons; he for the third time (he was married twice to his first wife), she for the second; last month in Moscow.
Divorced. Zeppo Marx, 72, the youngest Marx Brother (real name: Herbert), who quit the madcap vaudeville and movie team in 1934 to become an actors' agent; and Barbara Marx, fortyish, former model and current golfing and tennis pal of Frank Sinatra and Vice President Spiro Agnew; after 14 years of marriage, no children; in Palm Springs, Calif.
Died. Frederick Sessions ("Fritz") Beebe, 59, board chairman of the Washington Post; of cancer; in Manhattan. After arranging the purchase of Newsweek for one of his best clients, the Post Co., Beebe abandoned his law practice to become chairman of the board in 1961. When Post Publisher Philip Graham died two years later, Beebe assumed control of the firm until Graham's widow and the Post Co.'s principal stockholder, Katharine Meyer Graham, was able to take charge. A shrewd businessman and sensitive employer, Beebe guided the company's expansion into television, book publishing and part ownership of the international Herald Tribune.
Died. Allan P. Kirby, 80, financier who built an inheritance of $50 million into one of the world's largest personal fortunes; in Harding Township, N.J. With the legacy left from his father's investment in Woolworth stores, Kirby and his flamboyant partner, Robert Young, bought control of the railroad-rich Alleghany Corp. in 1937. The investment prospered until the '50s, when Young's death was followed by a well-publicized proxy battle that cost Kirby his post as the company's top officer. Stubbornly, Kirby battled back, and by 1963 was again in control of Allegheny's fortunes as well as his own, then estimated at $250 million.
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