Friday, Dec. 28, 1962
Divorced. By Deborah Loew, 30, widow of Cinemactor Tyrone Power: Third Husband Arthur M. Loew Jr., 37, nightclub-hopping movie scion; on grounds of mental cruelty; after three years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles.
Divorced. By Dorothy Dandridge, 39, torchy Negro cinemactress (Porgy and Bess, Carmen Jones): John Denison, 49. proprietor of a Hollywood supper club; on grounds of mental cruelty; after three years of marriage; in Los Angeles.
Died. Francis Carino Alberto Milano, 44. a mimic of sounds on U.S. network airwaves, whose talented bark for RCA Victor's "His Master's Voice'' and tasty Snap! Crackle! Pop! for Kellogg's Rice Krispies earned him a 330-acre upstate New York farm where, so he said, even the chipmunks thought he was real; of a heart attack; in Hudson, N.Y.
Died. Garrett Mattingly, 62, professor of European history at Columbia University since 1948, a Renaissance scholar who won a special Pulitzer citation in 1960 for his bestselling historical study, The Armada, on the defeat of Spain's famously fumbled naval crusade in 1588 against Elizabethan England; of a heart attack; in Oxford, England.
Died. Thomas Mitchell, 70. one of Hollywood's top character actors, uncle of former Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, a New Jersey newspaperman's son whose bushy eyebrows, gravelly voice and mile-wide Irish grin lit up the screen in 57 films, most notably as the rollicking Gerald O'Hara in Gone With The Wind and the prototype of a rum-pot frontier doctor in Stagecoach; of cancer; in Hollywood.
Died. Major General John Hamilton Roberts, 70, Canadian commander of the controversial 1942 raid on the German-held resort town of Dieppe; of a heart attack on the Channel Island of Jersey. Planned as a "reconnaissance in force," the raid was a tactical disaster (only 2,500 returned out of 6.100 troops, most of them Canadian) but a valuable strategic lesson, proving that open beaches are more assailable than ports and that massive firepower is the key to the beach.
Died. Chester Dale. 79, keenly perceptive Wall Street broker who amassed one of the world's best collections of modern French painting; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see ART).
Died. Carl Diem. 80, scholarly German sportsman whose love of the classics led him to revive the ancient Greek tradition of relaying a torch from Mount Olympus to the far-flung sites of the Olympic games, beginning with 1936's XI Olympiad in Berlin, where he also successfully resisted Nazi efforts to bar Jewish athletes; of a stroke; in Cologne.
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