Monday, Jun. 18, 1973
Divorced. Ali MacGraw, 34, Ivy League model turned actress, who starred in Love Story (TIME cover, Jan.
11, 1971) and most recently played Steve McQueen's moll in The Getaway; and Robert Evans, 42, vice president in charge of production at Paramount Pictures; because of irreconcilable differences; after four years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Died. George F. Getty II, 48, eldest of the four children of Billionaire J. Paul Getty, and second in command of the Getty Oil empire; of an overdose of barbiturates combined with alcohol; in Los Angeles. Named after his wildcatting grandfather, Getty began serving in the company outposts after W.W. II, and by 1958 had been named president of the Tidewater Oil Co., a Getty subsidiary. When Tidewater merged with the parent company nine years later, Getty was installed as vice president and chief operating officer of the enlarged firm.
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Died. Ralph C. Body, 70, the judge who sentenced Eros Magazine Publisher Ralph Ginzburg to jail in 1963; of a heart attack; in Earlville, Pa. A trial lawyer in Pennsylvania for 30 years, Body was appointed a Federal judge in the eastern district of Pennsylvania by President Kennedy in 1962. For his stiff sentencing of Ginzburg (five years in jail and $42,000 in fines on 28 counts of sending obscene matter through the mail), Judge Body was called both "a defender of common sense" and "the scourge of the free press."
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Died. Arna Wendell Bontemps, 70, prolific black author and a leader of the literary movement of the '20s known as the "Harlem Renaissance"; of a heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn. The 1946 musical St. Louis Woman, which presented Pearl Bailey in her first Broadway role, was based on Bontemps' first novel, God Sends Sunday. Poems, plays and biographies flowed from Bontemps' pen, and he was a scholarly anthologist of Negro writing, which he called "the most substantial body of captivity literature in the world since the Bible." qed
Died. Emmy Sonnemann Goring, 80, Junoesque wife of No. 2 Nazi Hermann Goering and unofficial first lady of the Third Reich; after a long illness; in Munich. A provincial actress in her youth, she stepped into the international limelight in 1935 by becoming the second Mrs. Goring; Adolf Hitler was best man at the wedding. In 1948, two years after her husband committed suicide in prison, Frau Goring was convicted of being a Nazi and was barred from acting for five years. Unable to stage a comeback, she lived out her days in a small apartment in Munich with her only daughter, Edda, now 34.
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