Monday, Feb. 21, 1977
Married. Jeanne Moreau, 49, protean femme fatale of French cinema (Jules and Jim, La Lumiere); and American Movie Director (The French Connection, The Exorcist) William Friedkin, 37; she for the second time, he for the first; in a brief civil ceremony in Paris. Moreau has been writing a book and a screenplay in the south of France while Friedkin, in Mexico, has directed The Sorcerer.
Marriage Revealed. Natalie Cole, 27, daughter of the late foggy-toned Balladeer Nat King Cole and a solid-gold pop-soul star in her own right; and Songwriter Marvin Yancy, 31, whom she met two years ago when he co-produced her first LP, Inseparable; both for the first time; in Chicago last July.
Died. Queen Alia of Jordan, 28, third wife of King Hussein; in a helicopter crash while returning from a hospital inspection tour in southern Jordan with Health Minister Mohammed al Beshir, who was also killed. The first of Hussein's wives to be crowned queen, Alia was active in charitable work and was an advocate of women's rights. She liked fast cars, water-skiing and blue jeans--a style she picked up while studying political science at Hunter College in New York City, where her father was a Jordanian delegate to the U.N.
Died. Marc Salinger, 28, eldest son of J.F.K. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger; in a leap from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, the 587th person to take his own life thusly. A would-be actor and journalist, Salinger had reportedly felt periods of depression ever since Kennedy's assassination 13 years ago. Said a former neighbor in his Russian Hill apartment house: "Too many down things happened to that guy."
Died. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, 72, fifth President of India and staunch supporter of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; of a heart attack; in New Delhi. A lifelong champion of democracy and secular rule in India, the Moslem-born, Cambridge-educated Ahmed joined his country's independence movement in 1931, and was jailed twice by the British. His last official act was to sign an order for new parliamentary elections.
Died. Father James G. Keller, 76, Roman Catholic missionary priest who founded the Christophers, a loose-knit ecumenical movement devoted to individual action and the credo that it is "better to light one candle than to curse the darkness"; of complications arising from Parkinson's disease; in Manhattan. Keller preached his gospel in more than a dozen books, a TV show and a movie, You Can Change the World.
Died. Edith Bouvier Beale, 81, aunt of Jacqueline Onassis who lived as a recluse in a refuse-strewn, 28-room Long Island mansion with her unmarried daughter Edith, 59, and an army of cats; in Southampton, N.Y. Mother and daughter were nearly evicted in 1972 when neighbors complained. Later they were subjects of a documentary film, Grey Gardens, which some critics felt held them up to ridicule. "Big Edie," however, enjoyed making the film. Said she: "Nobody else wanted to take my picture."
Died. Sergei Ilyushin, 82, Soviet aeronautics genius who designed more than 50 different airplanes, including the new IL-86 airbus soon to be put into service; in Moscow. Ilyushin's heavily armored low-flying tank buster called the Stormovik destroyed so many Nazi tanks in World War II that the Germans dubbed it "the flying death."
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