Monday, Apr. 25, 1977
Engaged. Princess Alia, 21, oldest daughter of Jordan's King Hussein; and Nasser Wasfi Mirza, 32, a member of the royal Cabinet and son of a former government minister. Alia, after whom the Jordanian national airline was named, is an English literature student at the University of Jordan.
Died. Karen Krantzke, 30, an Australian who ranked seventh in women's tennis singles in 1970; of a heart condition; in Tallahassee, Fla., after winning a doubles tournament. Krantzke returned to the pro circuit a few months ago after recovering from a forearm injury that had kept her off the courts during most of the past two years.
Died. Leroy Gore, 73, self-described "thoroughly conservative Republican country editor" of the weekly Sauk City (Wis.) Star who was alarmed by Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist excesses, started an unsuccessful "Joe Must Go" drive in 1954 and lost his newspaper after being harassed by local authorities; of emphysema; in Jefferson, Wis.
Died. Philip Knight Wrigley, 82, chairman of the world's largest chewing gum company (1976 sales: $370 million) and owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball team; of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage; in Elkhorn, Wis. The only son of the founder of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., Philip Wrigley became president of the family business at 31, and head of his father's baseball team in 1934. The Cubs introduced ladies' days and radio and TV coverage of games, but the team has gone 31 years without a pennant under Wrigley's somewhat eccentric proprietorship. In the '60s he tried out the notorious "rotating coach" system, replacing a single manager with several coaches. A reclusive man who seldom went to his ball park, he, alone of all baseball owners, refused to hold night games at ivy-covered Wrigley Field, declaring that they could disturb the neighbors.
Died. Charles McMoran Wilson, Lord Moran, 94, Winston Churchill's personal physician and confidant for 25 years; in Hampshire, England. Moran gave up his private practice in 1940 after members of the Cabinet persuaded him to care for Churchill, then 65. The doctor and his patient shared an interest in history and literature and together traveled 140,000 miles to strategy conferences during World War II. Moran's Churchill ... The Struggle for Survival, 1940-65, an account of Sir Winston's fight against pneumonia, two strokes and gradual senescence, stirred the ire of Churchill's family and the British Medical Association.
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