Monday, Sep. 04, 1995
MILESTONES
MARRIED. JULIE KRONE, 32, all-time winningest female jockey, and MATTHEW MUZIKAR, 26, TV producer; in Saratoga Springs, New York. Krone, who has piloted nearly 3,000 winners, rode the afternoon's card at the Saratoga track (scoring two places and one show) before taking her vows.
RECOVERING. LARRY HAGMAN, 63, formerly hard-drinking actor who played the much reviled J.R. Ewing on Dallas; after a liver transplant; in Los Angeles.
POSTHUMOUSLY INDUCTED. PAUL ROBESON, football player, actor and singer; into the College Football Hall of Fame; in South Bend, Indiana. Robeson, an All-American at Rutgers in 1917 and 1918, was for decades falsely accused of being a communist because of his liberal views and efforts to win equal rights for blacks. He died in 1976.
DIED. MARCUS CHENAULT JR., 44, convicted murderer of Martin Luther King Jr.'s mother Alberta; after a stroke; in Riverdale, Georgia. On a Sunday in June 1974, Chenault rose from the front pew of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church and fatally shot the 69-year-old Mrs. King and church deacon Edward Boykin. Condemned to death, he was resentenced to life imprisonment, in part because the King family opposes capital punishment.
DIED. SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR, 84, Nobel laureate in physics whose work led to the theory of black holes; in Chicago. Chandrasekhar, who studied the death throes of stars as their fuel is exhausted, calculated the Chandrasekhar limit (1.4 times the sun's mass), beyond which collapsing stars continue to compress indefinitely.
DIED. ADELE SIMPSON, 91, fashion designer whose clients included First Ladies and Hollywood stars; in Greenwich, Connecticut. Simpson's classic, never revolutionary designs emphasized a ladylike look.