Monday, Jun. 23, 1975
Married. Erich Segal, 37, bestselling tearjerker (Love Story, Fairy Tale) who has been writing and lecturing at Princeton since he left his classics professor's job at Yale; and Karen Marianne James, 28, a British children's book editor whom he met last summer on a flight from Tel Aviv; he for the first time, she for the second; in Princeton, N. J.
Died. Durga Prasad Dhar, 57, Indian diplomat and Ambassador to Moscow, who negotiated New Delhi's 1971 nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union and was a principal architect of India's military intervention in neighboring East Pakistan's civil war, which led to the creation of independent Bangladesh; following a heart attack; in New Delhi.
Died. Arthur Kober, 74, Bronx-accented humorist and playwright; of cancer; in Manhattan. Kober's career ranged from Broadway, Having A Wonderful Time (1937), Wish You Were Here (1952), to Hollywood, where he adapted his first wife Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes for the screen in 1941. His best-known creation, Bella Gross, drawn from The Bronx immigrant neighborhoods where he grew up, appeared in innumerable cartoons and New Yorker stories and remains the model for an enduring comic genre: the put-upon Jewish girl who is forever hounded by her mother to get out and "catch a nice boy, a doctah."
Died. Marion Frankfurter, 84, wife of the late Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and a shrewd judge of issues and personalities in her own right; in a Washington, D.C., nursing home. A witty, no-nonsense Massachusetts girl, Marion Frankfurter was the editor of many of her husband's nonjudicial writings. Never shy about deflating the sometimes pedantic and opinionated Justice when circumstances seemed to call for it, she once cracked that "there are only two things wrong with Felix's speeches: he digresses and he returns to the subject." Crippled with arthritis and in need of constant, expensive medical care since her mid-60s, she was nearly indigent soon after her husband's death in 1965, a fact that prompted Congress to make a modest raise in the pensions of Supreme Court widows from $5,000 to $10,000 a year.
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