Friday, Jun. 18, 1965
Born. To Kevin McClory, 41, Irish movie producer, latest of the Bondsmen (Thunderball), and Fredericka Ann ("Bobo") Sigrist, 25, heiress to the Hawker-Siddeley aircraft fortune: their second child, a daughter (she also has a daughter by First Husband Gregg Juarez, with whom she eloped at 17); in Dublin.
Married. Dame Jean Conan Doyle, 52, youngest daughter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, herself commandant of the Women's Royal Air Force since 1963; and Sir Geoffrey Bromet, 73, a retired air vice-marshal; she for the first time, for the second; in London.
Divorced. Merle Travis, 46, hillbilly singing star and songwriter, (Sixteen Tons and I'm Sick and Tired of You, Little Darlin'); by Bettie Lou Travis, 40; on uncontested grounds of mental cruelty; after eight years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles.
Died. Efrain Gonzalez, 29, Colombian bandit chieftain, one of the Andean country's most wanted men and leader of a gang credited with close to 250 murders in the past six years; by gunfire, in an attack on his suburban Bogota hideout by 425 soldiers using tear gas, rifles, machine guns and a 40-mm. anti-aircraft gun, while thousands of civilians looked on in awe.
Died. Judy Holliday, 41, dimpled blonde of stage and screen who achieved instant stardom for her classic 1946 portrayal of Born Yesterday's gutter-voiced doxy, was thereafter typed as a comical broad (Phffft, Solid Gold Cadillac, Bells Are Ringing), though she was actually a sensitive, richly talented actress with a rather serious nature forever in search of the right serious role until a throat tumor took her off the boards; of cancer; in Manhattan.
Died. Byron Schermerhorn Harvey, 62, board chairman of the Fred Harvey restaurant chain (60 restaurants, nine hotels, 35 retail shops) originally founded by his grandfather in a Topeka train station in 1876 to make the travelers' lot a bit happier, in those early days, by giving them good food served by pretty waitresses in prim uniforms, later immortalized by Judy Garland's 1946 Harvey Girls; of cancer; in Chicago.
Died. Thornton Waldo Burgess, 91, bedtime storyteller who regaled the country's moppets for nearly half a century with 71 books (7,500,000 copies and some 15,000 hare-raising tales about Peter Rabbit, Jimmy Skunk, Reddy Fox and other denizens of the Green Meadow that were syndicated in nearly 100 U.S. newspapers; of malignant melanoma; in Hampden, Mass.
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