Monday, Mar. 26, 1979
BORN. To Tricia Nixon Cox, 33, Richard Nixon's older daughter, and Edward Cox,
32, lawyer: a son, Christopher Nixon Cox, their first child and Nixon's first grandson, second grandchild; in Manhattan.
MARRIED. Phyllis George, 29, television personality and former Miss America (1971); and John Y. Brown, 44, millionaire co-owner of basketball's Boston Celtics; both for the second time; in Manhattan.
MARRIED. Jill Clayburgh, 34, stage and film actress currently nominated for an Oscar for her role in An Unmarried Woman; and David Rabe, 39, playwright; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan.
DIED. Per Haekkerup, 63, Danish politician and diplomat; of cirrhosis; in Copenhagen. As his nation's Foreign Minister from 1962 to 1966. Haekkerup lobbied for Denmark's admission into the Common Market (achieved in 1973), opposed the Viet Nam War and apartheid in South Africa.
DIED. Nelson Morgan Davis, 72, eccentric Canadian businessman; of drowning; in Phoenix. A native Ohioan who moved to Toronto in 1929, Davis amassed a fortune estimated at $100 million with a string of manufacturing and transport companies. He once paid $10,000 to have a meteorite that landed near Cleveland crushed and sent to Toronto to cover his driveway with its dust-free gravel and keep visitors from tracking dirt into his living room.
DIED. John McLean Clifford, 74, former president of Curtis Publishing whose frugal reign failed to resuscitate the financially ill company, leading to the 1969 demise of its flagship magazine, the Saturday Evening Post; of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. A lawyer, Clifford became president of the Philadelphia company in 1964, inheriting bank debts totaling $37 million. Though he showed a small surplus in 1966, he was unable to stem further losses and was ousted in 1968.
DIED. Leonide Fedorovich Massine, 83, pioneering dancer and choreographer who sought to synthesize all fields of art on the ballet stage; after a brief illness; in Cologne, West Germany. Invited at age 18 to join the Ballets Russes by Impresario Serge Diaghilev, who admired "his deep burning eyes in a face already touched by melancholy," the Moscow-born Massine scored his first great success in 1917, when he collaborated with Artist Pablo Picasso, Writer Jean Cocteau and Composer Erik Satie to produce Parade, thus turning the ballet world toward modernism. The wiry dancer, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was probably best known to the general public for his film performances in The Red Shoes and Tales of Hoffman.
DIED. Jean Monnet, 90, eminent French statesman; near Montfort-1'Amaury , France (see WORLD).
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