Monday, May. 17, 1976
Born. To Victoria Fyodorova Pouy, 30, Soviet actress who came to the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 10, 1975) to see for the first time her ailing natural father, retired Rear Admiral Jackson R. Tate, a Moscow-based naval attache during World War II, and Frederick Pouy, 38, Pan American World Airways pilot: their first child, a son; in Greenwich, Conn.
Married. Hiroo Onoda, 54, the Japanese Imperial Army lieutenant who continued to wage World War II as a lonely guerrilla in the jungles of the Philippines until 1974; and Machie Onoki, 38, a tea ceremony instructress whom Onoda met in a Tokyo restaurant; in Sao Paulo, Brazil, not far from the ranch that Onoda now runs.
Died. Jerome Snyder, 60, self-taught illustrator, designer and gourmet; of a heart attack after playing his customary Sunday touch-football game in Central Park; in Manhattan. Snyder became in 1954 the first art director of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, then held the same post at Scientific American from 1962 to 1970. Meanwhile, he collaborated on a popular guide to good cheap restaurants, The Underground Gourmet, and on a dining-out column for New York magazine.
Died. Ernest A. (Ernie) Nevers, 72, thundering Hall of Fame fullback at Stanford, an early star for the Duluth Eskimos (1926-27) and Chicago Cardinals (1929-31) and holder of the alltime single-game scoring record for professional football (40 points); of kidney disease; in San Rafael, Calif. Nevers also pitched professionally for the St. Louis Browns from 1926 to 1928. His coach at Stanford, Glenn ("Pop") Warner, once compared him to the legendary Jim Thorpe by saying, "Nevers could do anything Thorpe could do, and Ernie always tried harder."
Died. Alfred Bennett Harbage, 74, emeritus professor of English at Harvard and perhaps the nation's foremost Shakespearean scholar; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia. Editor of the Pelican edition of Shakespeare's works and author of such studies as Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions and As They Liked It: An Essay on Shakespeare and Morality, Harbage was scornful of all theorists who argued that Hamlet and Macbeth might actually have been written by Sir Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe or any other pseudonymous poet.
Died. Jim Robinson, 86, primordial, gutsy jazz trombonist who recorded more than 100 albums, many of them with Trumpeter Bunk Johnson, starting and finishing his career on Bourbon Street; of cancer; in New Orleans.
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