Monday, Nov. 28, 1977
BORN. To Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise of England, 27, and Captain Mark Phillips, 29: their first child, a son; in Paddington. The first grandchild for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip is fifth in succession to the British throne.
DIED. Manuel Artime, 45, silver-tongued Cuban physician and leader of the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961; of cancer; in Miami. Captured in a swamp two weeks after the landing failed, he was ransomed for $500,000 by the U.S. in 1962. He later led several commando raids on radar stations, sugar mills and other Cuban targets.
DIED. Thomas J. Deegan Jr., 67, organizer of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As chairman of the World's Fair Corporation, Deegan was instrumental in bringing the Piet`a to New York City, the first time Michelangelo's sculpture had been removed from Rome in more than 400 years.
DIED. Allen Lockerman, 70, former FBI special agent who took part in the slaying of Bank Robber John Dillinger; of cancer; in Atlanta. Lockerman, an agent at the bureau's Chicago office during the 1930s, also worked on the cases of such celebrated gangsters as Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly and Pretty Boy Floyd.
DIED. Richard Stewart Addinsell, 73, British composer of film, theater and television scores; of pneumonia; in London. He went to Broadway in 1933 and later worked on such movies as A Tale of Two Cities and Goodbye Mr. Chips, but none of his compositions ever reached the popularity of his 1941 war horse, the Warsaw Concerto.
DIED. Kurt von Schuschnigg, 79, Austria's autocratic Chancellor before annexation by Hitler's Germany in 1938; of pneumonia; near Innsbruck. Taking power in 1934, he suppressed the Communist and Social Democratic parties but then came under growing pressure from the Nazis for Anschluss, or union. After spending the war years as a Nazi prisoner, he taught political science at St. Louis University for two decades and returned to Austria in 1967.
DIED. A.C. Bhaktivedanta (Swami Prabhupada), 81, founder and spiritual leader of the American Hare Krishna movement; after a long illness; at his temple in Vrindaban, India. The manager of a large pharmaceutical laboratory, the swami's life was altered when he met his own guru in 1922. After some 40 years of preparation and the translation of more than 80 volumes of Hindu works, the swami came to New York City. Flower children of the '60s were instantly attracted to Prabhupada's offerings of an ascetic life; the flowing saffron robes and rhythmic chants of the Hare Krishna soon became familiar and durable street sights.
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