Friday, Jul. 28, 1961
Born. To Cecile Dionne Langlois, 27, prettiest and sprightliest of the four surviving Dionne quints, and Philippe Langlois, 30, television technician turned provincial civil servant: twin boys, their third and fourth, in the first multiple birth in six Dionne-daughter confinements; in Quebec City.
Marriage Revealed. David Patrick Rusk, 20, University of California economics senior and eldest of the U.S. Secretary of State's three children; and Delcia Bence Spinosa, 20, dark-haired daughter of a wealthy Argentine rancher-physician and a 1957-58 exchange-student classmate of Rusk's at Scarsdale (N.Y.) High; in a civil ceremony July 12 in Buenos Aires, to be followed by Roman Catholic rites there on Aug. 24.
Died. Maria Luisa de Arana Duke. 39, Madrid-bred descendant of Spanish nobility, third wife of State Department Protocol Chief (and tobacco heir) Angier Biddle Duke, graceful giver of benefit parties in Washington and New York, star campaigner for John Kennedy in Spanish-speaking East Harlem; in the crash of a single-engined taxi plane; near New York City's La Guardia Airport; as she was returning to her Southampton summer home, shortly after helping her husband say goodbye to visiting Pakistani President Ayub Khan at Idlewild.
Died. Tyrus Raymond Cobb, 74, baseball's unmatched immortal; of cancer; in Atlanta (see SPORT).
Died. Herbert Claiborne Pell, 77, pince-nezed bibliophile descendant of Louisiana's first state Governor and father of Rhode Island's Junior Senator Claiborne Pell, a onetime Congressman himself (1919-21) and New York State Democratic Committee chairman (1921-26), who was tapped by his Harvard contemporary, Franklin Roosevelt, for two diplomatic posts (minister to Portugal, then Hungary) and as U.S. member of the U.N. Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes; on a Munich street, while escorting his grandson on a grand tour. In 1945, after urging the indictment of the entire Nazi Gestapo, Pell proved more vengeance-driven than the nation, lost the U.N. commission post when Congress neglected to appropriate his salary.
Died. George Criticos. 77, Greek-born friend of royalty and porter to the famous for more than 45 years at London's Ritz Hotel, who in 1932 chaperoned the then 21-year-old Aly Khan on a three-month American junket, and later moonlighted as his bet runner, placing more than $700,000 on the horses during the prince's last 27 years; of heart attack; in London. Criticized Criticos in his autobiography: "Millionaires are not usually very happy people, I have found. They're too full of worries about their wealth and health."
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