Monday, Nov. 13, 1978
MARRIED. Jaclyn Smith, 33, dark-maned heroine of TV's adventure series Charlie's Angels; and Dennis Cole, 38, actor; both for the second time; in Manhattan.
MARRIED. John D. Ehrlichman, 53, Richard Nixon's domestic affairs chief and Watergate conspirator; and Christine Peacock McLaurine, 30, interior designer; both for the second time; in Staten Island, N.Y. Ehrlichman, divorced only last month, met his new wife eight months ago in a Manhattan furniture store, where she worked as a salesperson. The couple plan to live in Santa Fe, N. Mex.
DIED. Julius Shiskin, 66, Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner whose monthly barometric reading of unemployment and prices measured the economic weather; of a kidney ailment; in Washington, D.C. A career civil servant, Shiskin worked in the Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget before being appointed to his last post by President Nixon in 1973. Respected and apolitical, the BLS chief was reappointed by President Carter last year. Finding the consumer price index too narrowly based, Shiskin worked out new formulas to better gauge the costs of U.S. goods and services.
DIED. John Allison, 73, U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1953 to 1957; in Honolulu. A consul in Osaka when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Allison was interned for six months before his repatriation. As deputy to Chief Negotiator John Foster Dulles, Allison helped draft the Japanese peace treaty in 1952 and in 1954 signed a mutual defense pact under which the U.S. bolstered the Japanese economy with $100 million.
DIED. Eben Roy Alexander, 79, TIME'S managing editor for a record length of time, eleven years (1949-60); of pneumonia; in Roslyn, N.Y. A graduate of St. Louis University who served in the Marine Corps during World War I, Alexander worked for the St. Louis Star for four years and for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 14, eventually becoming assistant city editor. He came to New York City and TIME as a writer in 1939. Equally at home in subjects as diverse as politics, religion, music, foreign affairs and the classics, Alexander became assistant managing editor in 1946 and managing editor three years later (see A Letter from the Editors).
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