Monday, Jul. 05, 1982
BORN. To Diana, Princess of Wales, 20, and Prince Charles, 33: a son; in London. Weight: 7 Ibs. 11A oz. (see WORLD).
BORN. To Sun Myung Moon, 62, self-anointed messiah and founder of the Unification Church, which claims 3 million members around the world, and his wife, Korean-born Hak Ja Han, 40: a daughter, their 13th child; in Tarrytown, NY. Name: Jeung Jin Nim (March of Heart). Weight: 7 lbs. 8 oz. Moon, also born in Korea, was convicted in May of conspiracy to evade paying personal income tax and is awaiting sentencing.
DIVORCED. David Frost, 43, peripatetic, sometimes abrasive British TV interviewer-producer; and Lynne Frederick, 28, actress and widow of Peter Sellers, who married her old flame. Frost, six months after the actor's death; after 17 months of marriage, no children; in Switzerland.
DIVORCED. Freddie Laker, 59, British pioneer of low-cost, no-frills transatlantic flights, whose Laker Airways was grounded by bankruptcy earlier this year; by American-born Patricia Gates Laker, 43; after seven years of marriage, one son, Fred Jr.; on grounds of adultery; in London.
DIED. Roberto Calvi, 62, scandal-plagued president of Milan's Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's largest privately owned bank, in whose subsidiaries a shortfall of $1.4 billion was discovered; of strangulation; in London. Calvi, who started 37 years ago as a clerk and went on to become one of Italy's leading financial operators, was nicknamed "God's Banker" because of the Vatican's substantial dealings with the Banco Ambrosiano. At the time of his death, he was appealing a four-year sentence for illicitly exporting $26.4 million in violation of Italian currency laws, and his name had become increasingly linked with Financier Michele Sindona, currently serving a 25-year sentence in the U.S. for his role in the collapse of New York's Franklin National Bank. Not long after the billion-dollar "hole" was discovered, Calvi disappeared from his elegant Rome apartment. He had been reported missing until his body, weighted down with 20 lbs. of stones, was discovered hanging from the iron grillwork of London's Blackfriars Bridge. Police say his death appeared to be a suicide, but they are not ruling out the possibility of foul play.
DIED. Richard Lockridge, 83, urbane former drama critic who collaborated with his first wife Frances on a series of mysteries from the 1940s to the 1960s; of a stroke; in Tryon, N.C. Their best-known characters were Pam and Jerry North, a sophisticated husband and wife team who unraveled complex crimes on stage, screen, radio and television, while adhering to one of Lockridge's cardinal rules: ''Never pin a murder on the butler."
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