Monday, Aug. 19, 1974
Married. Faye Dunaway, 33, alluringly angular film actress (Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown); and Peter Wolf, 28, shaggy, shimmying lead singer of the Boston-based J. Geils Band blues-rock group; both for the first time; in a civil ceremony in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Died. Robert Field Rounseville, 60, resonant tenor who kicked around for a decade as an underemployed nightclub crooner and vaudevillian before winning critical notice as a smooth, sensitive operatic lead in Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande in 1948, sang the title roles in Tales of Hoffmann and the original production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide, and headlined as the padre in Man of La Mancha; of a heart attack; in his studio in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall.
Died. Dr. Virginia Apgar, 65, wise, industrious specialist in the treatment of newborn babies and birth defects; of a probable pulmonary embolus; in Manhattan. A graduate of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Apgar later became its first professor of anesthesiology and first female full professor. In 1952 she perfected the Apgar Score, an evaluation of five physical functions--heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflexes and skin color--made within the first minute of a child's life, and again five minutes later. A low score is a prompt identification of a need for special care.
Died. Baldur von Schirach, 67, arrogant, monomaniacal leader of Hitler's youth movement in the 1930s; in Krov, West Germany. Son of a German aristocrat and an American mother, Von Schirach declared that "the lives of all German youths belong solely to Adolf Hitler," and undertook to train his charges ("physically, spiritually and morally") to follow the Fuehrer unquestioningly. After the Anschluss (annexation of Austria), Hitler farmed him out to be Gauleiter (district leader) of Vienna, where he remained till war's end. At Nuremberg in 1946, Von Schirach was convicted of complicity in the murder of 50,000 Austrian Jews and spent 20 years at Berlin's Spandau prison.
Died. Jose Miro Cardona, 71, shrewd, fence-straddling Cuban criminal lawyer who fled Batista's regime to Miami in 1958, served briefly in 1959 as Cuba's first Prime Minister after Castro's revolution, then fell out ideologically with his boss and returned to the U.S., where he headed the Cuban Revolution Council, before clashing with President Kennedy and settling in Puerto Rico as a law professor; of a heart attack; in San Juan.
-Died. Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, 73, grandiloquent former Baltimore mayor (1943-47,1963-67) and Maryland Governor (1951-59); of cancer of the bladder; in Baltimore. Son of a semiliterate, hard-drinking Baltimore policeman, McKeldin got through high school, college and law school at night, and became a devotee of Dale Carnegie. He built support among blacks as an early Republican proponent of civil rights, ordered integration of state-owned parks and beaches, and ended Baltimore's ban on black public-transit motormen. As the man who nominated Eisenhower in 1952, he was a serious contender for the running mate's slot.
Died. Alexander B. Belyshev, 81, who, on the night of Oct. 24, 1917, as commissar of the cruiser Aurora, then anchored in Petrograd's Neva River, acted on party orders and fired the blank shot from the ship's foredeck gun that signaled the start of the Bolshevik revolution; in Leningrad.
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