Friday, Apr. 26, 1963
Married. Suzy Parker, 30, model turned movie star; and Bradford Dillman, 33, who played the young O'Neill on Broadway in Long Day's Journey into Night; both for the second time; aboard the luxury liner Santa Rosa en route to Curasao.
Died. Yetta Wallenda, 42, German-born acrobat and member of the ill-starred Flying Wallendas; of injuries suffered when she apparently fainted at the climax of her solo act atop a swaying fiber glass pole, fell gracefully and silently 50 ft. to the ground; in Omaha. Last year, when a fall killed two other members of the troupe and permanently crippled a third, Yetta said: "When I fall, I want to be dead."
Died. Evgeny Dmitrievich Kiselev, 54, Russia's top man in the U.N. Secretariat as Under Secretary for Political and Security Council Affairs, a smooth, ever-smiling career diplomat who was Ambassador to Cairo (1955-59), where he wooed Nasser during the Suez crisis with promises of Russian arms; after a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Alfred Whitney Griswold, 56, 16th president of Yale University, witty critic and wise champion of U.S. liberal arts education; of cancer; in New Haven (see EDUCATION).
Died. Sir Leslie Arthur ("Dick") Plummer, 61, British Labor Party M.P. since 1951 and a lifelong socialist who for 17 years pursued a career as a top business-side executive for Lord Beaverbrook's newspapers, then left in 1948 to enter politics and become an antinuclear, anti-Common Market leader of the Labor wing that recently made Harold Wilson party chief; of a stroke; in Manhattan. "I've done well under the capitalist system," he once said, "but I loathe all it represents."
Died. Boyd Martin, 76, sprightly dean of movie criticism, who in 1910 as a young writer on the Louisville Courier-Journal panned The Great Train Robbery as "not realistic" in what is generally accepted as the first movie review ever published in a newspaper, was the Journal's movie and drama man ever after; of cancer; in Louisville.
Died. Dr. Allen Oldfather Whipple, 82, director of surgical service at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center from 1921 to 1946, a reserved and humble man born of American missionary parents in Persia, who in 1935 performed the first successful operation for removal of cancer of the pancreas (still known as the "Whipple Operation"), in 1936 was one of the founders of the American Board of Surgery, the highest certification organization of a general surgeon's training and competence; of a heart attack; in Princeton, N.J.
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