Monday, Apr. 26, 1982
MARRIED. Zsa Zsa Gabor, over 60 (though she claims 54), gilded, Hungarian-born actress with less talent than she has wealthy former husbands; and Felipe de Alba, 52, Mexican lawyer who no longer uses his Spanish birthright title of Count of Pardela; she for the eighth time, he for the second; on a yacht off Puerto Vallarta.
DIED. C.Y. Tung, 71, owner of one of the world's largest independent fleets of ships; of a heart attack; in Hong Kong. Born in mainland China, he helped Nationalist China to rehabilitate its state-run shipping industry after World War II and then built his own 11 million-ton armada that totals 149 ships and tankers.
DIED. Robert Havemann, 72, unbending East German pacifist leader who opposed first Hitler and then Communist rulers of his homeland; of heart and lung damage first inflicted when he was imprisoned by the Nazis; in Gruenheid, near East Berlin. An outstanding physical chemist, Havemann joined the Communist Party in 1932 to oppose the Nazis, then 25 years later became an increasingly angry critic of Communist totalitarianism, though he still considered himself a "true Marxist." Purged from the party in 1964, he was scorned as a "Socrates who spoils our youth" and held under house arrest from 1979 until his death.
DIED. Louis Lyons, 84, distinguished newspaper journalist, radio essayist, director of Harvard University's Nieman Foundation and vigilant watchdog of the American press; of cancer; in Cambridge, Mass. Lyons became a first-rank reporter and editorial writer at the Boston Globe, and in 1938 he earned a place in the first group of Nieman fellows, who are chosen to spend a year away from their beats studying subjects of their choice at Harvard. One year later the genteel, pipe-smoking Bostonian became the Nieman's curator, and during the next 25 years made the fellowships the most eminent in American journalism. Using his position to criticize as well as to nurture reporters, Lyons called for "a bold press" when covering politicians, but "a decently restrained press . . . in dealing with the private lives of individuals."
DEATH REVEALED. Tom McHale, 40, irreverent writer of baroque novels that raged with comic lunacy and roared through the conflicts of middle-class Irish and Italian Catholics; by his own hand (carbon monoxide poisoning); on March 30; in Pembroke Pines, near Miami. McHale won critical praise for his first novels, Principato (1970) and Farragan's Retreat (1971), but six subsequent novels never reached that early level of achievement.
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