Friday, Jul. 17, 1964

Born. To Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, 37, only child of Spain's Generalissimo Franco; and Cristobal Martinez Bordiu Ortega y Bascaran, 41, Marques de Villaverde: their seventh child, fifth daughter; in Madrid.

Married. Romaine Dahlgren Pierce, 40, Manhattan model, ex-wife of the Marquess of Milford Haven; and James Busch Orthwein, 40, St. Louis adman, great-grandson of the original Gussie (Budweiser) Busch; she for the third time, he for the second; in Manhattan.

Married. Marshall Field Jr., 48, publisher of Chicago's morning Sun-Times and evening Daily News; and Julia Lynne Templeton, 23, onetime Sun-Times public relations girl; he for the third time; in Manhattan.

Died. Jon Corbino, 59, U.S. painter, a Sicilian-born romantic realist who specialized in turbulent canvases of full-blown nudes and writhing horses caught in shipwrecks and floods, scoffing at abstract artists for their attempt "to achieve a literature with a language none but they understand"; of cancer; in Sarasota, Fla.

Died. Roy Davidson, 63, head of the 65,000-man Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and spokesman for all five railroad unions during the lengthy deadlock over featherbedding, who helped talk his more militant fellow union leaders into compromise, shared bows with President Johnson over TV when the dispute was finally settled this spring; of leukemia; in Cleveland.

Died. Maurice Thorez, 64, longtime French Communist chieftain, a coal miner turned professional revolutionary, who took control of the party as secretary general in 1934, ran it as a mirror of the Kremlin, slavishly devoted first to Stalin, then to Khrushchev, seeing it grow to nearly 1,000,000 members after World War II only to decline rapidly (current membership: 240,000) in the face of European prosperity, until, suffering from chronic ill health, he "elevated" himself to president last May, leaving everyday tactics to another man; of an apparent heart attack aboard a Russian ship traveling to Yalta for a vacation.

Died. Dr. Rufus ("Rex") von Klein-Smid, 89, president of the University of Southern California from 1921 to '46, a crusty, controversial administrator who expanded U.S.C.'s plant from three to 22 buildings, increased enrollment from 5,000 to 12,000 and concentrated hard on a championship football team, but paid his professors minuscule salaries (some got as little as $2,600 a year); of heart disease; in Los Angeles.

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