Friday, Jun. 07, 1963
Born. To Julie London, 36, soft-and sloe-voiced singer who even makes the cigarette jingles tingle, and Composer-Pianist Bobby Troup, 44; identical twin sons; in Van Nuys, Calif.
Married. Dinah Shore, 46, TV's tiptop thrush; and Maurice Fabian Smith, 41, building contractor; both for the second time; in Redlands, Calif., two days after her divorce from Actor George Montgomery became final.
Divorced. By Wilma Rudolph, 22, Olympic track star and world record holder: William Ward, 25, onetime also-ran half-miler at Tennessee State, where Wilma received her B.S. last week; after 17 months of marriage; in Nashville.
Died. Francis Eugene ("Tad") Walter, 69, Democratic Representative from Pennsylvania for 16 consecutive terms and longtime chairman (during Democratic years) of the House Subcommittee on Immigration and the House Un-American Activities Committee, who unyieldingly resisted attempts to change his controversial 1952 McCarran-Walter Immigration Act and relentlessly investigated Communist infiltration in Hollywood and in teaching, yet for all his reputation as a conservative, voted so often for those "damn liberal" bills that the vote-watching Americans for Democratic Action gave him an 80% liberal rating; of leukemia; in Washington.
Died. Stavros Livanos, 73, Greek shipowner, a frugal, publicity-hating multimillionaire who built a small business into one of the world's biggest privately owned fleets--70 ships (no yacht), with 16 more on order; of a heart attack; in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Died. Louis Lipsky, 86, vibrant theoretician of U.S. Zionism during its first 60 years, who, after winning acceptance from American Jews--and President Woodrow Wilson--for the idea of a Jewish state, became president of the Zionist Organization of America from 1921 to 1930, and later helped organize financial support for the struggle against the British and Arabs; after a long illness; in Manhattan.
Died. Edith Hamilton, 95, unsurpassed woman classicist, a tall, spare spinster whose love and knowledge of ancient worlds smoldered for 50 years until, at 62, she wrote her masterpiece, The Greek Way, a lucid, highly readable study of the Golden Age, then went onto examine Greece's mythology, its philosophies, and its echoes in other civilizations, and regarded as the high point of her life a 1957 ceremony in which King Paul awarded her the Golden Cross of the Order of Benefaction, the nation's highest honor; of a heart attack; in Washington.
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