Friday, Aug. 07, 1964
Married. Marcia Kubitschek, 20, comely daughter of former (1956-61) Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek, 50, who fathered the $600 million inland capital of Brasilia but ran afoul of the country's new revolutionary government, which recently stripped him of all political rights for ten years; and Baldomero Barbara Neto, 25, son of a wealthy Brazilian industrialist; in Lisbon.
Died. Willie ("The Wisp") Galimore, 29, star halfback of the Chicago Bears pro football team, who averaged 4.45 yards per carry over six seasons and in 1957 tied a Bears record of four touchdowns in a single game; in an auto accident that also killed Bears End John Farrington, 28, when their Volkswagen flipped as they raced to beat an eleven o'clock curfew at training camp; in Rensselaer, Ind.
Died. Dr. Thomas Henry Carroll, 50, president of George Washington University since 1961, a take-charge scholar-administrator who, having revamped the business schools at the Universities of Syracuse and North Carolina, was picked to vitalize the capital's lackluster university, within three years increased enrollment by 17% (to 11,246), boosted the budget for faculty salaries by 50%, and initiated a building program that has already tripled student dormitory facilities; of a heart attack; in Bluemont, Va.
Died. Clair Engle, 52, California's flamboyant Democratic Senator; of a brain tumor, following two brain operations that left him partially paralyzed; in Washington (see THE NATION).
Died. James McCauley Landis, 64, onetime dean of Harvard Law School and F.D.R. brain-truster, Tokyo-born son of Presbyterian missionaries, who at the age of 34 drafted a new securities act for Roosevelt, at 37 became one of Harvard Law's youngest deans, then, in 1946, settled down to a lucrative Manhattan law practice (among his clients: Joseph Kennedy), worked as a presidential adviser to Joe's son Jack, but saw his fortunes collapse last year when he was convicted of failing to file federal income tax returns from 1956 through 1960; by drowning, in his backyard pool; in Harrison, N.Y.
Died. Hermann Hagedorn, 82, biographer of Theodore Roosevelt, a sometime playwright who, after meeting the old Bull Moose at a rally in 1916, became an armchair Rough Rider, devoted the rest of his life to chronicling the T.R. legend in five highly readable, painstakingly detailed books (The Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt, The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill); of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif.
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