Friday, Oct. 25, 1963
Born. To Prince Albert of Liege, 29, fun-loving younger brother of Belgium's King Baudouin, and Princess Paola, 26: a second son, third child, third in line to inherit the throne (after his father and elder brother, Prince Philippe, 3); in Brussels.
Married. Mary Allin Travers, 26, strapping (5 ft. 9 in.) blond chickadee of the folk-singing trio, Peter, Paul and Mary; and Barry Feinstein, 32, freelance photographer; both for the second time; in Danbury, Conn.
Married. Dr. Henry Clay Alexander Jr., 28, resident in surgery at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, son of the board chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.; and Annalita Giovanni Marsigli de Rossi-Lombardi, 26, Italian-born Manhattan society poetess; in Manhattan.
Married. Hope Lange, 29, cool and limpid green-eyed cinemactress (Love Is a Ball); and Alan Pakula, 35, Hollywood producer (To Kill a Mockingbird); she for the second time; in Los Angeles.
Died. Horton Smith, 55, pro-golfing great of the 1920s and '30s, a lanky Missouri farm boy who at the tender age of 21 won eight major tourneys and the then astronomical total of $15,500, was master of the first U.S. Masters tournament in 1934, won the title again in 1936 and went on to play at Augusta every year since; of Hodgkin's disease; in Detroit.
Died. Alan Arnold Griffith, 70, British aeronautical engineer, longtime (1939-60) chief theoretical scientist for Rolls-Royce Ltd., a shy, withdrawn Londoner who in 1926 first outlined the principles of the pure-jet aircraft engine, later designed the Rolls-Royce "Flying Bedstead," an ungainly jet-powered contraption that in 1954 demonstrated unwinged vertical takeoff and landing; of cancer; in Farnborough, England.
Died. Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk, 74, wartime U.S. Navy chief in Europe, postwar diplomat and troubleshooter, a leathery Philadelphian who commanded landings on Sicily and the D-day Normandy beaches, later proved so effective as an ambassador, first to Belgium (1946-49), then to Russia during the Korean war (1949-52), that President Kennedy called him back from retirement in 1961 to try and talk Belgian mining executives into supporting the U.N. in the Congo, last year gave him another sensitive job as Ambassador to Nationalist China, a post Kirk held only six months before resigning because of failing health; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan.
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