Friday, Apr. 15, 1966
Born. To Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, 53, U.S. Senator from Washington and onetime (1960-61) National Democratic Party chairman, and Helen Hardin Jackson, 32, former Capitol Hill secretary: their second child, first son; in Washington, D.C.
Married. Tina Louise, 32, resident voluptuary on CBS's Gilligan's Island; and Les Crane, 32, brash host on the now defunct ABC show Nightlife, who lost the ratings battle to Johnny Carson last year; she for the first time, he for the third; in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Died. Walter Hansgen, 46, veteran U.S. driver (45 major races won) who made his reputation in Jaguars for Sportsman Briggs Cunningham before switching, in 1963, mostly to Ford, whose rakish Mark II he drove to second place in last month's twelve-hour Sebring endurance race; of massive brain damage five days after his Mark II aquaplaned across the wet track at 120 m.p.h., flipped end over end and crashed into a sand bank during a practice run for the 24 hours of Le Mans this June; in Orleans, France.
Died. Sutan Sjahrir, 56, Indonesia's first Premier from 1945 to 1947, in the Republic's renegade days (before The Netherlands finally recognized its former colony's independence in 1949), a moderate socialist leader who tried to avoid bloodshed by promising the Dutch full protection for their vast investments in return for freedom, but was turned down cold, a rejection so embittering to Indonesians that they turned away from Sjahrir's conciliatory position to Sukarno's militant anti-Western leftism; after a long illness; in Zurich, where he had lived since 1965, when Sukarno released him from an eight-year jail term for his continuing pro-West sentiments.
Died. Fred G. Aandahl, 68, Eisenhower's Assistant Secretary of the Interior, a farmer and former Governor of North Dakota who became one of the first high Government officials to recognize the unlimited possibilities of desalting sea water, invested $150,000 in federal funds for a pilot desalinization project that was the forerunner of the multimillion-dollar plant currently in use at Guantanamo; of cancer; in Fargo, N. Dak.
Died. Battista Pininfarina, 70, Italy's virtuoso of automobile styling, famed for the sculptured elegance of his sports and grand touring cars, whose Turin plant turned out 75 mostly handcrafted auto bodies a day at prices ranging from $2,500 for a Fiat to $18,000 for a Ferrari, each stamped with the designer's genius for sweeping, uncluttered, unchromed lines, something that Detroit has come to admire in recent years; of liver disease; in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Died. Dr. Harry M. Tiebout, 70, pioneer in psychiatric treatment of alcoholics, one of the first in the medical profession to recognize the therapeutic value of Alcoholics Anonymous, who encouraged his patients to break through the "big egos" that liquor gave them and accept their excessive drinking as a disease over which they had no control, thus gain the humility necessary for a cure; of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn.
Died. Russel Grouse, 73, the plumper half of Broadway's dynamic duo, Lindsay and Grouse, whose 32 years of cooperative writing produced such star-spangled hits as Life with Father, State of the Union and The Sound of Music; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Grouse was a press agent in 1934 when Playwright Howard Lindsay asked his help on a rewrite of Cole Porter's Anything Goes. "We don't complement, we supplement each other," said Lindsay afterward, and the two went on to conceive twelve plays and musicals locked together in a room, the impeccable, reserved Lindsay pacing, the gentle, unkempt Grouse slumped over the typewriter, each one finishing the other's sentences.
Died. Leslie L. Biffle, 76, a 20-year veteran of backroom politics on Capitol Hill, who reached his apogee when, as Secretary of the U.S. Senate in 1945-47 and again in 1949-52, his friendship with President Truman made him a power pivot between the White House and the Senate; of pneumonia; in Washington. A wispy, whispery Arkansan, Biffle, as the man in charge of the Senate's machinery, was the one to see to grease the ways for a bill or swing a vote here and there. His political judgment was considered "blue chip" after the 1948 campaign when he disguised himself as a chicken farmer and toured the Midwest, emerging to report, almost alone among the experts, that H.S.T. had a "fighting chance" to beat Thomas E. Dewey.
Died. Emil Brunner, 76, Swiss theologian who proselytized for the early 20th century Protestant movement against the attenuating liberalism of the day, and argued for a return to a systematic theology that accepted the Bible as the only source of divine revelation; following a stroke; in Zurich. The articulate Brunner carried the dogma of neo-orthodoxy to Protestant seminaries around the world, was often compared to his fellow countryman Karl Earth, who espoused the same biblicism, but the two sometimes disagreed on the application of Christian principles to life.
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