Monday, Aug. 05, 1974
Divorced. Lee Bouvier Radziwill, 41, younger sister of Jacqueline Onassis, actress manquee and fledgling author; and Prince Stanislas Radziwill, 60, British-based Polish nobleman and real estate investor; after 15 years of marriage, two children; in London.
Died. Johanna Davis, 36, novelist and former TIME writer; after being hit by a taxi outside her Greenwich Village home; in Manhattan. Daughter of Hollywood's much-storied Screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz (Citizen Kane), "Josie" Davis joined TIME in 1959 as a secretary and later wrote for its Show Business and Modern Living sections. She resigned from TIME in 1972 to work on Life Signs, a wry, witty tale of the psychic perils facing a young Manhattan mother.
Died. Arthur Kittredge Watson, 55, former chief of IBM's international operations and ex-U.S. Ambassador to France; following a fall at his home; in Norwalk, Conn. Son of IBM Founder Thomas J. Watson Sr., Watson rose to become chairman of IBM World Trade Corp., while his older brother Thomas Jr. took the reins of the parent company. Making his motto "world peace through world trade," he presided over a rise in IBM's foreign sales from less than $50 million to $2.5 billion annually. A major Republican contributor, Watson in 1970 was named U.S. envoy to Paris, where he served as an early diplomatic link with the Chinese Communists. He resigned his post in 1972 to rejoin IBM's board of directors.
Died. Lili Darvas, 72, celebrated Hungarian-American actress; after a brief illness; in Manhattan. Four years after her 1921 stage debut in Budapest, Darvas was discovered by Max Reinhardt, then Europe's foremost director.
She toured the Continent with Reinhardt's troupe, then, in 1938, fled from the Nazis to New York with her husband, Hungarian Playwright Ferenc Molnar. After shining in such Broadway productions as Bravo (1948) and First Love (1961), Darvas won acclaim for her poignant portrayal of a 96-year-old invalid in the Hungarian film Love (1970).
Died. Wayne Morse, 73, spunky, irreverent Republican-turned-Democrat who served for 24 years as Senator from Oregon (see THE NATION).
Died. Sir James Chadwick, 82, British Nobel laureate physicist who in 1932 discovered the neutron, the atomic particle devoid of any electrical charge, later did work in nuclear fission and led the team of British scientists who contributed to the Manhattan Project; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, England.
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