Monday, Jul. 09, 1973
Married. Moshe Dayan, 58, Israeli Defense Minister; and his longtime companion, Rahel Korem, 47; both for the second time; in a Tel Aviv suburb.
Dayan's former wife Ruth lays partial blame for the breakup of her 36-year marriage on her husband's "long-lasting romance" with Korem, a divorcee who was once a government secretary.
Died. John Cranko, 45, reigning master of full-length story ballet; apparently of a heart attack; while flying from Philadelphia to Stuttgart. Born in South Africa, Cranko came to London at the age of 19; by the time he was 24 he had become principal choreographer of the Sadler's Wells Ballet. In 1961 he took over the mediocre Stuttgart Ballet. With his strong sense of theater and his ability to marry dance and plot, Cranko scored dramatic successes with such works as Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake and Eugene Onegin. The Stuttgart, under his direction, became one of the best companies in the world.
Died. Samuel Irving Rosenman, 77, one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's most valued advisers and speechwriters; in Manhattan. Rosenman's father was a clothing manufacturer in San Antonio before the family moved to New York when the boy was eight. In 1928, when Roosevelt ran for Governor of New York, Rosenman joined the campaign as legislative expert. He became Roosevelt's counsel the following year and, for F.D.R.'s acceptance speech of the 1932 presidential nomination, he contributed the term "New Deal." Later in the campaign Rosenman recruited the intellectuals for the Brain Trust. A state judge from 1932 to 1943, Rosenman served simultaneously as Roosevelt's adviser, and finally went to work full time in the White House. His duties included importing delicatessen from New York to supplement the White House menu and preparing messages to Congress on topics such as the Yalta Conference. In 1970, Rosenman organized bar association opposition to Judge G. Harrold Carswell's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Died. Fay Holden, 77, English actress whom Hollywood transformed into an archetypical small-town American mom; of cancer; in Los Angeles.
Holden came to the U.S. after 30 years on the British stage and played with such leading men as Clark Gable, Alan Ladd and Walter Pidgeon. But it was not until she fretted over Mickey Rooney in the Andy Hardy series that she acquired mythic-mother status. She played the role in 15 Hardy pictures.
Died. Earl Browder, 82, former general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party (see THE NATION).
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