Friday, Dec. 08, 1961

Born. To Eartha Kitt, 33, slinky Negro songstress who outraged proper Britons by openly alluding to her pregnancy during a recent London TV performance (TIME, Aug. 25), and William McDonald, 31, her white husband: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles.

Married. Ben Gazzara, 31, taut, talented star of Broadway's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Hollywood's Anatomy of a Murder; and Janice Rule, 30, ex-Copacabana chorine who won overnight fame in Broadway's Picnic; he for the second time, she for the third; in San Francisco.

Marriage Revealed. Wilma ("Skeeter") Rudolph, 21, world's fastest woman, winner of three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics; and William Ward, 25, fellow Tennessee State student and promising half-miler; in Franklin, Tenn., Oct. 14.

Died. Henry Styles Bridges, 63, dean of Senate Republicans; of complications following a heart attack; in Concord, N.H. (see THE NATION).

Died. Martin Henry Kennelly, 74, handsome, silver-topped reform Mayor of Chicago (1947-55) who rose from back-of-the-stockyards poverty to affluence as head of a warehousing and trucking firm, was drafted by reluctant Democratic bosses to end Mayor Ed ("Boss") Kelly's 14-year rule, but was so embittered when the machine unceremoniously dumped him after two terms that he refused to set foot in the city hall for the rest of his life; of a heart attack; in Chicago.

Died. Anna Gould, Duchess of Talleyrand, 83, daughter of Rail Tycoon Jay Gould and one of the first of the American heiresses whose marriages infused new blood--and new money--into Europe's sagging aristocracy; of a heart attack; in Paris. Wed to Count Boniface de Castellane in 1895, Anna Gould divorced him after an 11-year phantasmagoria of pink marble palaces and $150,000 parties during which the Parisian gay blade skated through more than half of her $13.5 million inheritance. Two years later, she wed the fifth Duke of Talleyrand, a descendant of the wily French diplomatist whose machinations shaped post-Napoleonic Europe, lived with him for 29 years until his death in 1937.

Died. Samuel Zemurray, 84, longtime boss of the United Fruit Co., a hard-knuckled Russian immigrant who carved out a Central American business empire in the early 1900s by such tactics as engineering a Honduran revolution, gained control of United Fruit in 1932 and ran it for nearly two decades with the brusque earthiness of a man who preferred the company's tropical plantations to its Boston board rooms; of Parkinson's disease; in New Orleans.

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