Friday, Jun. 19, 1964
Born. To Heller Halliday Weir, 22, Mary Martin's daughter, who played with mother in Peter Pan, and Anthony Weir, 28, Madison Avenue ad man: their first child, a boy, and Mary's third grandchild; in Manhattan.
Married. Anthony Accardo, 29, adopted son of Anthony ("Big Tuna") Accardo, heir to Al Capone's Chicago crime syndicate; and Janet Marie Hawley, 23, Miss Utah of 1961; in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Chicago attended by their families, four minor-league hoods, and 30 representatives of the FBI, the Illinois Crime Commission, Chicago Crime Commission, Cook County Sheriff's Office and the Chicago police.
Married. Dr. James Slater Murphy, 41, associate professor of virology at the Rockefeller Institute and Happy Rockefeller's ex-husband; and Victoria Thompson, 25, Manhattan socialite turned schoolteacher; he for the second time; in Manhattan.
Married. Stewart Granger, 51, Hollywood's Great White Hunter (King Solomon's Mines); and Caroline Lecerf, 22, Belgian beauty queen; he for the third time; in a civil ceremony in Geneva. Said Stewart: "Only thing that makes me wince is that her mother's two years younger than me."
Died. Pamela Moore, 26, fledgling novelist, who hit the bestseller lists at 18 with Chocolates for Breakfast, describing a girl's first bittersweet taste of adult pleasures and problems, but had less success with a second novel, and tound her inkwell dry part way through her third, about a washed-up writer who puts a rifle to her head; by her own hand (.22-cal. rifle); in Manhattan.
Died. Charles Clarkson Stelle, 53, career U.S. diplomat, an ever-so-patient negotiator at the Geneva disarmament conferences for the last four years, and a key man in both the 1962 nuclear test ban treaty and last year's "hot line" agreement; in Washington.
Died. Luang Pibul Songgram, 66, Thai strongman, who as Prime Minister from 1938 to 1941 and again from 1948 to 1957 changed the country's name from Siam to Thailand, turned it westward, or so he thought, with such Occidental laws as ordering men to kiss their wives before leaving for work each morning, ruled with a generally competent, militantly anti-Communist hand until a 1957 economic crisis led the Thai army to overthrow him; of a heart attack; in Tokyo.
Died. Mazie Phillips, 72, angel of mercy to Manhattan's Bowery bums, a guttural-voiced platinum blonde who worked as a cashier in a Skid Row moviehouse and for 50 years comforted every bench warmer, panhandler and swillbelly with a quarter here, a nip there, believing that more organized forms of charity were doomed because "you ain't goin' to get a bum in a mission if there's a gutter to sleep in"; after a long illness; in Manhattan.
Died. Morris Cafritz, 77, Washington real estate man and builder, known for his 100-acre Parklands housing development and shopping center in southeast D.C., but-best remembered as the rich husband of Gwen Cafritz, who in the '40s and '50s clashed cocktail crystals with Perle Mesta for the scepter of hostess with the mostess until Jackie Kennedy arrived; of a heart attack; in Washington.
Died. Lord Beaverbrook, 85, patriarch of London's Fleet Street; of a heart attack; in London (see PRESS).
Died. William Pettus Hobby, 86, onetime Governor of Texas (1917-1921), longtime chairman of the Houston Post and husband of Oveta Gulp Hobby, Ike's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, who gave his state women's suffrage and its first oil conservation laws, then rode off to the newspaper wars, supervising the Post's rise as one of Texas' most informative and widely read newspapers (circ. 224,-649); in Houston.
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