Monday, Oct. 04, 1976
Married. J. Carter Brown, 41, director of the National Gallery of Art and one of Washington's most eligible bachelors; and Pamela Braga Drexel, 30; both for the second time; in Westminster Abbey, London.
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Marriage Revealed. John W. Jenrette Jr., 40, freshman South Carolina Congressman, a Democrat; and Rita Carpenter, 26, former "opposition research director" for the Republican National Committee; both for the second time; on Sept. 10 in Arlington, Va. Carpenter, whose job was to look for Democratic dirty linen, quit last year when the Republicans objected to her dating a potential research subject. qed
Died. Kermit Bloomgarden, 71, producer of such Broadway hits as The Music Man, The Diary of Anne Frank and Look Homeward, Angel; while suffering from a brain tumor; in Manhattan. Born in Brooklyn and trained as a C.P.A., Bloomgarden became a business manager for a producer, then started presenting plays on his own. His first success, in 1945, was Deep Are the Roots, a drama about racial conflict. The next year he presented Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest and, in 1949, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, which won a Pulitzer Prize. He made it a practice to attend every rehearsal of the 50 or so plays he produced.
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Died. Benjamin Graham, 82, dean of security analysts and an investor who became a millionaire; in Aix-en-Provence, France. Graham's 1934 book Security Analysis (coauthored with David L. Dodd) remains a business-school textbook; more than 100,000 copies have been sold. The Intelligent Investor, his layman's guide to Wall Street, stressed the importance of the net asset value of a corporation's stock.
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Died. Paul H. Douglas, 84, for 18 years one of the Senate's mosr imaginative liberals; in Washington, D.C. As a professor at the University of Chicago in the 1920s, Douglas did pioneering research into the functions of labor and production in the economy. During the Depression, he advised F.D.R. on unemployment policies and later helped set up the Social Security system. After serving in the Marines during World War II (he lost the use of his left arm when hit by enemy fire on Okinawa), Douglas traveled to Washington in 1949 as the junior Senator from Illinois. Many of the causes he campaigned for--civil rights, truth in lending, tax reform, Medicaid, campaign finance reform--have since become law. His steadfast support of the Viet Nam War contributed to his defeat by Republican Charles Percy in 1966.
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