Monday, Dec. 19, 1960
Engaged. Beatrice Anna Cabot Lodge, 22, handsome, trilingual (Spanish, French Italian) daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Spain John Davis Lodge and niece of Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Cabot Lodge; and Antonio de Oyarzabal y Marchesi, 25, second-generation member of the Spanish diplomatic corps. Wedding date: July 6, on the 32nd wedding anniversary of Ambassador and Mrs. Lodge.
Died. Keith Thomson, 41, Republican Senator-elect from Wyoming, who would have been the first man in the state's history to move up from the House of Representatives (where he was Wyoming's lone delegate for six years); of a heart attack; in Cody, Wyo. The youngest infantry battalion commander on the Italian front in World War II, Thomson forged an equally successful civilian career as a lawyer, rancher and businessman, as a politician belonged to Senator Barry Goldwater's conservative school.
Died. Clara Haskil, 65, Rumanian-born concert pianist who made her debut in Vienna at seven, won her first Grand Prix in Paris at 14, later played sonatas with such luminaries as Violinists Enesco and Ysaye, Cellist Casals; of injuries suffered in a fall; in a railroad station in Brussels.
Died. Herbert Ross, 75, Scotch whisky magnate (distiller for such brands as White Horse) who lost a leg in Mesopotamia in World War I, opened his first distillery with another one-legged veteran and, as his business prospered, gave away more than -L-1,000,000 to British universities, zoos, hospitals and the Wine and Spirit Trade Benevolent Society; after years as an invalid; in Cove, Scotland.
Died. Walter Dorwin Teague, 76, dean of American industrial designers and apostle of functionalism, who reshaped thousands of machine-age products ranging from the exterior of cameras ("Baby Brownie") and cars (Marmon 16) to the interior of jet planes (Boeing 707), but who preferred to live in a 250-year-old house furnished in French Provincial and Early American; of a heart attack; in Flemington, N.J.
Died. Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, 96, biographer, historian and poet whose warmth and urbanity led his fellow Harvardman, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, to nominate him as the ideal man to represent the human race on a mission to Mars; in Cambridge, Mass. After eye trouble ended Howe's career as an editor (Youth's Companion, Atlantic Monthly), he became an author, wrote 38 volumes in longhand (including a 1924 Pulitzer Prize biography, Barrett Wendell and his Letters), but maintained nonetheless that his "best products" were his children: onetime Monologist and Novelist Helen, Harvard Law Professor Mark Jr. and Newscaster Quincy.
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