Monday, Nov. 09, 1970
Born. To Paul Anka, 29, teen-age singing sensation of the late 1950s, still making it big as a crooner-composer, and Anne De Zogheb, 28, his fashion-model wife of seven years: their third child, a daughter; in London.
Divorced. Marianne Faithfull, 23, longtime girl friend of the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger; by John Dunbar, 27, American artist and writer; on uncontested grounds of adultery; after five years of marriage, one child; in London. The divorce does not become final for at least three months.
Died. George Smith, 65, Britain's top spy catcher, Detective Superintendent of Scotland Yard's Special Branch until 1963; of a heart attack; in Bath, England. Part of a team working with Military Intelligence (M.I.5), Smith built a reputation as a tracker of Nazi parachutists and saboteurs in World War II. In the shadow world of peacetime espionage, he put the finger on Atomic Spy Allan Nunn May in 1946 and Klaus Fuchs in 1950. But the most celebrated coup of his 35-year career was the unraveling in 1961 of a Soviet network headed by Spy Chief Gordon Lonsdale.
Died. Count Ilia A. Tolstoy, 67, grandson of Russian Author Leo Tolstoy, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1924 and became noted in his own right as an explorer, conservationist and ichthyologist; in Manhattan. As an OSS agent in World War II, Tolstoy led an expedition from India into Tibet to enlist the Dalai Lama's aid in preparing a last Allied redoubt in Asia, to be used if the Nazis and Japanese managed to link forces in India. As a scientist, he developed a hypodermic harpoon for live capture of huge sharks and contributed widely to the conservation of marine life; Floridians also remember him as a co-founder of the famed Marineland near St. Augustine.
Died. Giovacchino Forzano, 86, Italian playwright and librettist noted for his work with Puccini; in Rome. Forzano won plaudits for his librettos for Puccini's one-act Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica, and contributed librettos for such other composers as Mascagni, Leoncavallo and Lehar. Italians also remember him as the dramatist who nursed Mussolini's passion to write, thrice co-authoring plays with H Duce.
Died. Raymond C. Hoiles, 91, president of the Freedom Newspapers chain with 20 dailies (combined circ.: over 500,000) in Florida. Ohio, Nebraska, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and California; in Santa Ana, Calif. So conservative that he refused to endorse Dwight Eisenhower or Robert A. Taft, Hoiles inveighed against anything even remotely socialistic, including tax-supported compulsory public education.
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