Monday, Sep. 15, 1980
BORN. To Tom Wolfe, 49, razzmatazz stylist and astute chronicler of the trendy and status conscious, who coined "radical chic" and "the me decade" and wrote The Right Stuff, a recent bestseller about the Mercury astronauts; and Sheila Berger Wolfe, 37, art director of Harper's magazine: a daughter, their first child; in New York City. Name: Alexandra Kennerly.
MARRIED. Karen Carpenter, 30, singing and drumming half of the brother-sister duo the Carpenters; and Thomas James Burris,
39, real estate developer and a member of Ronald Reagan's campaign finance committee; she for the first time, he for the second; in Beverly Hills. During the ceremony the bride sang a song, Because We're in Love, written for the occasion by Brother Richard, and a 50-voice choir performed Carpenters hits from the '70s.
MARRIED. Bonnie Franklin, 36, singer, dancer and actress, who plays a divorcee on TV's One Day at a Time; and Producer Marvin Minoff, 48, with whom she worked on a TV movie about Birth Control Pioneer Margaret Sanger; both for the second time; in Los Angeles.
DIED. Douglas Kenney, 33, a founder and onetime editor of the humor magazine National Lampoon and co-author of the screenplays for the 1978 hit Animal House and this summer's Caddyshack, which he also produced; in a fall from a 30-ft. bluff on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, where he was vacationing. A 1968 graduate of Harvard, where he was an editor of the collegiate Lampoon, Kenney and two other former editors in 1970 launched the National Lampoon, which has since spun off movies, stage revues, a radio show, records and books.
DIED. Walter Kaufmann, 59, German-born professor of philosophy at Princeton, whose biographical and interpretive studies of 19th century German thinkers (Hegel, Nietzsche) and literary and philosophical anthologies (Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre) have been handbooks for both undergraduates and scholars; of a ruptured aorta; in Princeton, NJ.
DIED. Duncan Renaldo, 76, "the Cisco Kid" of twelve feature films and 156 television episodes in the 1950s; in Santa Barbara, Calif. After working his way up from studio janitor to leading roles in 1929 and 1931 in The Bridge of San Luis Key and Trader Horn, the Rumanian-born Renaldo was convicted of perjury for falsifying his birthplace to qualify for a U.S. passport; he served 18 months in prison, then was pardoned by President Franklin Roosevelt. Renaldo was proud of his Cisco series, in which he played an Old West Don Quixote to the late Leo Carrillo's Sancho Panza, using wits instead of guns. "Pancho and I never killed anyone," he once said. "The kids who watched our show went to sleep smiling."
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