Monday, Aug. 15, 1983
MARRIED. Margot Kidder, 34, outspoken Canadian actress who soared to fame as Lois Lane in the Superman movie series; and Philippe de Broca, 50, French film director who made the 1966 cult classic King of Hearts; she for the third time, he for the second; in Vert, France.
SEPARATED. Joe Montana, 27, quarterback who led the San Francisco 49ers to their 1982 Super Bowl victory; and Cass Montana, 31, United Airlines stewardess; after two years of marriage, the second for each, no children; in Skyline, Calif.
RESIGNED. Bowie Kuhn, 56, commissioner of baseball; after 14 1/2 stormy years in office; in Boston. When owners of five National League clubs would not change their nine-month-old decision to block his reelection, Kuhn decided to stop fighting and go "in the best interests" of baseball. He will serve until Dec. 31 unless a replacement is chosen before then.
SENTENCED. David Crosby, 41, singer-guitarist of the Byrds and later of the mellow folk-rock supergroup now known as Crosby, (Stephen) Stills and (Graham) Nash; to five years in prison for possession of a quarter-gram of cocaine and a firearm; in Dallas. Crosby, arrested while free-basing cocaine in his dressing room between Dallas rock-club performances last year, is on three years' probation for reckless driving in California.
HOSPITALIZED. Jacob K. Javits, 79, longtime (1957-81) Republican Senator from New York; for a new experimental treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the progressive neuromuscular disorder also known as Lou Gehrig's disease; at Good Samaritan Hospital; in Los Angeles. Javits will be injected with extremely high doses of thyrotropin releasing hormone, an expensive ($2,400 per gram) drug that has produced dramatic but short-term improvements in ALS victims.
RECOVERING. Margaret Thatcher, 57, Britain's Iron Lady; from surgery on a partly detached retina in her right eye; in Windsor, England. The Prime Minister entered Princess Christian Hospital after unsuccessful laser treatment, left three days later pronouncing herself " 101% fit."
DIED. Carolyn Jones, 50, sultry, sinuous actress who played the ghoulamorous Morticia on television's The Addams Family; of cancer; in Beverly Hills. A promising starlet whose supporting performance as a love-starved beatnik in The Bachelor Party (1957) was nominated for an Oscar, Jones left the movies in 1964 to star for two years in the TV sitcom based on Charles Addams' offbeat New Yorker cartoons.
DIED. Judy Canova, 69, pigtailed, bullfrog-voiced singer and hillbilly comedian; of cancer; in Hollywood. One of the most popular radio stars of the 1940s, Canova also mugged and yodeled off-key through some two dozen movies, including Scatterbrain (1940) and Louisiana Hayride (1944).
DIED. William Balderston, 86, former president and chairman of the Philco Corp., who helped mastermind the promotion and popularization of the car radio; in Abington, Pa. Philco bought rights in 1930 to a radio that could be operated in a car, and under Balderston's guidance, sales passed the million mark five years later. Near the end of his presidency (1948-54), Philco was first in the U.S. in car-radio and air-conditioner sales.
DIED. Howard Dietz, 86, Hollywood songwriter who penned the lyrics to such standards as Dancing in the Dark, You and the Night and the Music and Louisiana Hayride; of Parkinson's disease; in New York City. A public relations executive who invented Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Leo the Lion trademark and is said to have coined Greta Garbo's line "I want to be alone," Dietz was amazingly prolific (more than 500 songs) and quick, whipping up That's Entertainment in 30 minutes with his longtime collaborator Arthur Schwartz. One of show business's genuine Renaissance men, Dietz translated the librettos of La Boheme and Die Fledermaus into English for the Metropolitan Opera, dabbled in oil painting, and devised a two-handed bridge game that bears his name.
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