Monday, Oct. 22, 1973
Married. Red Skelton, 60, consummate TV clown whose alter egos include flap-footed Clem Kaddiddlehopper and threadbare Freddie the Freeloader; and Lothian Toland, 35, sportswoman whose father was cinematographer for Citizen Kane and Wuthering Heights; he for the third time, she for the first; in San Francisco.
--Divorced. Elvis Presley, 38, rock V roll's Golden Oldy supercrooner; and Priscilla Ann Beaulieu Presley, 25, a stunning brunette from Memphis who met and conquered Elvis in Germany when he was the most famous sergeant in the U.S. Army; after six years and one child; in Santa Monica. In addition to a cool $1.5 million, Elvis also gave Priscilla a 5% interest in his music companies and half of the proceeds from the sale of their Holmby Hills, Calif., home. --Died. Walter Audisio, 64, World War II Italian Communist partisan leader who claimed credit for gunning down Benito Mussolini in April 1945 as the Fascist dictator attempted to escape into Switzerland with his mistress Claretta Petacci along a country road in northern Italy; of a heart attack; in Rome.
--Died. Clarence Wilfred Jenks, 64, director general of the International Labor Organization since 1970 and a lawyer who wrote a pioneering study in 1965 on the legal problems of outer space; after a short illness; in Rome. --Died. Arthur Menken, 69, newsreel photographer who covered the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, the Spanish Civil War, the siege of Nanking during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Battle of Britain for Paramount, the March of Time and the Columbia Broadcasting System; of a liver ailment; in Florence, Italy.
--Died. Gabriel Marcel, 83, French dramatist, critic, musician and philosopher; of a heart attack; in Paris. A Roman Catholic and a pioneering existentialist who preferred the designation "Neo-Socratic," Marcel rejected abstract thinking as a solution to man's moral problems. Instead, he struggled to define a concrete philosophy that would help man find, in the sense of his own being and in his unselfish love of others, an approach to God. Marcel's best-known books were Metaphysical Journal (1927), Being and Having (1935) and The Mystery of Being (1951). --Died. Ludwig von Mises, 92, Austrian-born economist best known for his ardent championship of the autonomy of the marketplace and his suspicion of government intervention in the economy; in New York.
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