Monday, Feb. 14, 1977
Born. To Peggy Fleming, 28, world figure-skating champion in 1966 at age 17, and Dr. Gregory Jenkins, 31: their first child, a son; in Stanford, Calif. Name: Andrew Thomas. Fleming, who brought the U.S. its only gold medal from the 1968 Grenoble Winter Olympics, continued pirouetting for the Holiday on Ice troupe until last September.
Engaged. Patricia Bowman, 67, the "American Pavlova" who opened Radio City Music Hall in 1932 with Ray Bolger, later danced with Ballet Theater; and Albert Kaye, 75, retired theatrical producer, who 40 years ago had hired her to choreograph a ballet. At the time, Kaye proposed to Bowman, but she refused to mix marriage and a career. Last fall Widower Kaye proposed again, and this time she accepted.
Married. David Carradine, 36, film actor (Bound for Glory) and son of saturnine-visaged Movie Veteran John; and Linda Gilbert, 27, of Malibu, Calif.; in Munich, where Carradine has been making an Ingmar Bergman film (see CINEMA). Both Carradine and Gilbert had been married before, she to Roger McGuinn, founder of the rock group the Byrds.
Married. Anne Baxter, 53, film actress (All About Eve, The Razor's Edge) who quit the screen to live on an isolated cattle station in the Australian outback with her second husband, Randolph Gait, and wrote about it in Intermission; and Wall Street Investment Banker David Klee, 69; she for the third time, he for the fourth; in Manhattan.
Divorce Revealed. Roger Vadim, 49, French film director (Barbarella); and his fourth wife, Munitions Heiress Catherine Schneider, 33; after four years as lovers and one year of marriage, one child; in Paris. Vadim on marriage: "You bring a mistress flowers, and she accepts them as a lovely present. A wife only notices when you don't bring flowers."
Died. David E. Finley, 86, the soft-spoken South Carolina lawyer who was the planner and first director (1938-1956) of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; at his home in Georgetown. The idea, the money--and the first great collection for the gallery--came from Steel Magnate Andrew W. Mellon, who as Secretary of the Treasury in 1927 and later as Ambassador to Great Britain had taken on Finley as his most trusted associate. The enormous marble museum opened in 1941, and Finley persuaded other great collectors, notably Samuel Kress, Lessing Rosenwald and Peter and Joseph Widener, to contribute their paintings and sculptures as well.
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