Friday, May. 04, 1962
Born. To Marguerite Piazza, 35, Metropolitan Opera soprano turned nightclub diva; and Tennessee Snuffmaker William James Condon, 50: their fourth child (her sixth), third daughter; in Memphis.
Married. Sarah Churchill, 47, occasional actress and Sir Winston's frolicsome second daughter; and Thomas Percy Henry Touchet Tuchet-Jesson, Lord Audley, 48, elegant onetime manufacturer of crystal tableware; she for the third time, he for the second; in Gibraltar's Rock Hotel.
Divorced. By Natalie (Gypsy) Wood, 23, Hollywood's latest up-and-atom bombshell: Tintype Cinemactor Robert Wagner, 32; on grounds of mental cruelty (Nat's mother witnessed: "He was even rude to me''); after four years of marriage; in Santa Monica, Calif.
Died. Eddie South, 57, one of the vanishing group of great Negro jazz violinists, whose sweet tone prompted Paul Whiteman to nickname him the "Dark Angel"; of a heart attack; on Chicago's South Side.
Died. Guy Wiggins, 78, rearguard landscape painter and National Academician, whose gay limning of snowstorms and hansom cabs held its charm--especially as a favorite of Sunday Painter Dwight D. Eisenhower--long past the representational heyday; of kidney disease; in St. Augustine, Fla.
Died. Francis Hackett, 79, pince-nezed Irish steward of letters who, like other Dublin literary dissidents, exiled himself to the U.S. in 1901 where he was lauded for his lively book criticism in the Chicago Evening Post, the New Republic and the New York Times, and for his even livelier biographical study of the private lives of Henry VIII; of a heart attack; near Copenhagen, Denmark.
Died. General Count Jacques Aldebert de Chambrun, 89, stalwart servant of two nations, an honorary U.S. citizen by virtue of his direct descent from the Marquis de Lafayette, a Sahara-seasoned French soldier who aided the A.E.F. by serving on General Pershing's staff, in World War II kept open both the American Hospital and American Library in Paris; after a short illness; in Paris.
Died. Amy E. Archer-Gilligan, 93, seraphic Yankee poisoner who made a profession of arsenic and old lace from 1907 to 1916 at her tiny Windsor, Conn., old folks' home, where more than 20 paying guests--as well as her two husbands--died under suspicious circumstances, who stood trial and was found guilty of murder in one specific instance, but whose sentence was commuted from hanging to life imprisonment in 1919; in Connecticut Valley Hospital, Middletown, to which she was committed in 1924 as insane.
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