Friday, Oct. 12, 1962
Married. John Randolph Hearst Jr., 28, whilom journalist and grandson of William Randolph Hearst; and Patricia Lusk Tenny, 23, onetime Hearst magazine trainee; in Manhattan.
Died. Frank Lovejoy, 50, character actor, last seen on Broadway as the bigoted Senator in The Best Man; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Ludwig Bemelmans. 64, bubbly, urbane caricaturist whose lighthearted paintings and gently satirical books delighted adults and children alike; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan. Son of a Belgian painter and a Bavarian brewer's daughter. Bemelmans worked as a hotel waiter, opened his own restaurant, became a bon vivant and peopled his books and canvases with epileptic Ecuadorian generals, French jewel thieves. American ladies in feather boas, and a Parisian moppet named Madeline. "The purpose of art," he once said, "is to console and amuse--myself, and, I hope, others."
Died. Lieut. General Henry Louis Larsen, 71. a burly, well-decorated (two Navy Crosses, three Silver Stars), leatherneck who fought in virtually every Marine campaign from Belleau Wood to Guadalcanal, wound up in command of all Marine forces in the Pacific and then retired in 1946 to direct Colorado's civil defense; of a heart attack; in Denver.
Died. Major General Eric Fisher Wood, 73, Pennsylvania architect who fought in the French. British and U.S. armies in World War I, and after the Armistice helped found the American Legion; after a long illness; in Bedford. Pa.
Died. Charles Francis Potter, 76, founder of the First Humanist Society of New York, a onetime Baptist minister who believed that the true savior was man instead of God. crusaded nationwide for birth control and euthanasia; of cancer; in Manhattan.
Died. Raoul Nordling, 79, Sweden's consul general in Paris for 32 years, winner of France's highest honor, the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, for saving the city from destruction in August of 1944 by arranging a truce between the Resistance and German troops until the Allies arrived; of a heart attack; in Paris.
Died. Sidi Mohammed al-Amin, 81, last of the 19 Beys of Tunis, a spade-bearded figurehead given to gilt-encrusted uniforms and tinkering with his 2,000 grandfather clocks, who sat as France's puppet king from 1943 until 1957 when the new Tunisian republic ousted him--and his seven dwarf jesters--from his palace, thus ending a 252-year dynasty originally set up by the Turkish masters of the Ottoman Empire in 1705; of a heart attack; in Tunis.
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