Friday, Aug. 13, 1965
Born. To Patricia Neal, 39, earthy, Oscar-winning Hollywood actress (Hud, In Harm's Way), and Roald Dahl, 48, British mystery writer: their fifth child, fourth daughter; in Oxford, England. Six months ago, Patricia Neal suffered three paralyzing strokes that threw her into a coma for ten days (TIME, March 26). In a remarkable display of courage, she tackled a tough rehabilitation program, now walks (with the aid of a leg brace), is learning again how to talk. Her baby is "perfectly normal."
Born. To Ernest Borgnine, 47, TV and cinemactor, and Donna Rancourt Borgnine, 32 (TIME, July 16): a daughter; in North Hollywood.
Married. Hoda Nasser, 21, eldest daughter of United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser; and Hattem Sadek, 22, sportsman son of former Agriculture Under Secretary Ali Sadek, a University of Cairo economics graduate; at Nasser's suburban Heliopolis home.
Married. Rosemary Park, 58, accomplished daughter of one college president (Wheaton), sister of another (Simmons), herself president of two colleges (Connecticut College 1947-62, Barnard since 1962); and Milton Vasil Anastos, 56, professor of Byzantine Greek at the University of California; he for the second time; in Greenwich, Conn.
Marriage Revealed. Gary Grant, 61, durable Hollywood archetype of the urbane lover and unflappable adventurer-hero (71 films); and Dyan Cannon, 27, sometime actress; he for the fourth time (his others: Actress Virginia Cherrill, Heiress Barbara Hutton, Actress Betsy Drake); in Las Vegas, on July 22.
Died. Nancy Carroll, 58, baby-faced Hollywood redhead of the 1920s and '30s, who enhanced a string of early talkies (Shopworn Angel) opposite Gary Cooper and Lionel Barrymore, after a long period of obscurity reappeared in 1963 to star on the straw-hat circuit; in Manhattan.
Died. Guenther Roessing, 63, captain of the Bremen, Germany's newest and biggest (702 ft., 1,200 passengers) luxury liner; of a heart attack while standing on the bridge of his ship midway in the Atlantic, while bound for New York.
Died. William Rand Kenan Jr., 93, Florida industrialist, who, as a chemistry student in 1892, stumbled upon a "dark crystalline mass" that later became the keystone of the billion dollar carbide industry, in 1900 turned to Florida hotel and rail development with his brother-in-law, Entrepreneur Henry Flagler, accumulating a personal fortune of $100 million; of a stroke; in Lockport, N.Y.
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