Monday, Jul. 13, 1970
Married. Nancy Kwan, 31, sloe-eyed Eurasian actress who soared to stardom in The World of Susie Wong and Flower Drum Song; and David Giler, 26, Hollywood scriptwriter, whose most recent credit, if that is the term, is Myra Breckinridge; she for the second time, he for the first; in a civil ceremony in Carson City, Nev.
Married. Jackie Gleason, 54, comedian who last week obtained a divorce from his wife of 34 years; and Beverly McKittrick, 38, his Miami secretary, whom he met last year while playing golf at a Florida country club; both for the second time; in a civil ceremony in Ashford, England.
Married. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 55, son of the former President, onetime Under Secretary of Commerce, and now U.S. distributor of Jaguar cars; and Felicia Warburg Sarnoff, 42, heiress to the banking fortune, former wife of the board chairman and president of RCA; he for the third time, she for the second; in a civil ceremony in Manhattan.
Married. Dr. Jonas E. Salk, 55, pioneer of the first polio vaccine; and Franc,oise Gilot, 48, longtime (1944-54) model and mistress of Pablo Picasso, an artist of repute in her own right, whom Salk first met a year ago while she was visiting friends in California; both for the second time; in a civil ceremony in Paris.
Divorced. Steven C. Rockefeller, 34, son of New York's Governor; by Anne Marie Rockefeller, 32, his Norwegian-born wife, who was once a maid in the Rockefellers' Manhattan household; on the grounds of incompatibility; after eleven years of marriage, three children; in Juarez, Mexico.
Died. Dr. Gertrude Rand Ferree, 84, who with her late husband Dr. Clarence Ferree made major strides in the study of human vision; in Stony Brook, N.Y. Co-holder of a dozen patents for lighting devices, optical and ophthalmological instruments, she played a major role in the development of the famed Hardy-Rand-Rittler color plates (numerals outlined by dots in subtly shaded hues) universally used to identify types of color deficiency and color blindness.
Died. Frances Parkinson Keyes, 84, Virginia-born gentlewoman, world traveler, associate editor of Good Housekeeping (1923-35), and author of more than 50 books; in New Orleans. Though she never won great critical acclaim, she developed a sizable following for her light, brightly told tales, most often about New Orleans and Southern plantation life, as in Dinner at Antoine's, Crescent Carnival and Steamboat Gothic.
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