Monday, Nov. 19, 1973
Married. Peter Finch, 57, England's articulate, stubbornly independent film star (Sunday Bloody Sunday," The Pumpkin Eater, Far from the Madding Crowd); and Eletha Barrett, 30, a Jamaican minister's daughter whom Finch met and moved in with eight years ago; he for the third time, she for the first; in Rome. The couple has a three-year-old daughter.
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Marriage Revealed. Jean-Claude Killy, 30, French superskier whose downhill dashes through the Alps in 1968 resulted in three Olympic gold medals; and Daniele Gaubert, 29, racy French actress (Camille 2000) and former daughter-in-law of the Dominican Republic's late dictator Rafael Trujillo; he for the first time, she for the second; in Archamps, France, on Nov. 2.
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Died. Haim Ginott, 51, Israeli-born child psychologist whose bestselling books (Between Parent and Child, Between Parent and Teenager) illustrated how to deal constructively with plate-breaking, room-messing and procrastinating offspring; after a long illness; in Manhattan.
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Died. Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, 71, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations since 1946 and controversial leading spokesman for the more than 1,000,000 Jews who make up the 100-year-old Reform Judaism Movement in the U.S. and Canada; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. An outspoken critic of the Viet Nam war, Rabbi Eisendrath led a successful fight in 1961 to establish a Religious Action Center in Washington, D.C.
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Presumed Dead. Liu Shao-chi, 75, Communist China's dour chief of state for a decade until becoming the most prominent purge victim of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution of 1966-69; of cancer; in Peking. Born in Mao's native province of Hunan, Liu was a member of the Communist Party's Central Committee by 1927 and in 1943 rose to Secretary-General, the No. 2 post in the regime. First denounced in 1966 as a pro-Soviet "revisionist" who favored work incentives, Liu was completely out of power three years later.
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Died . George Biddle , 88 , portrait painter and muralist who in 1933 helped found the WPA art project that lasted through the 1930s and provided work for such artists as Jackson Pollock, Reginald Marsh and Willem de Kooning; in Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. A Harvard-trainedlawyer whose brother, Francis Biddle, was U.S. Attorney General from 1941 to 1945, Biddle turned to art when he was 26, and became best known for the frescoes he painted in the Department of Justice building in Washington
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