Monday, Mar. 07, 1977
Married. Peter Sellers, 51, zany comedian who plays the bumbling Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies; and Lynne Frederick, 22, a British actress; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Paris. Said the bride: "We got married in secret because I think all the best marriages start that way."
Marriage Revealed. Marianne Means, 42, syndicated Hearst Washington columnist who was a favorite White House correspondent of both J.F.K. and L.B.J.; and Warren Weaver Jr., 54, who covers Congress and national politics for the New York Times; she for the third time, he for the second; on Feb. 10, in Washington, D.C.
Marriage Revealed. Lesley Stahl, 35, CBS News Washington correspondent; and Aaron Latham, 33, former reporter and author of an upcoming roman `a clef (Orchids for Mother) about the CIA; she for the second time, he for the first; on Feb. 17, in Washington, D.C. The couple met in 1973 when Stahl was covering the Senate Watergate hearings for CBS and Latham interviewed her for a New York magazine story.
Died. John Hubley, 62, innovative animator and creator of the cartoon character Mr. Magoo; during heart surgery; in New Haven, Conn. While working at the Walt Disney studio, Hubley contributed to many memorable full-length cartoons, including the lyrical Rite of Spring segment of Fantasia. With his wife Faith, he formed a production company in 1955; they made films explaining the works of Astronomer Harlow Shapley and Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson as well as on abstract ideas of psychology, peace, science and democracy. The first of their three Academy Awards was won in 1960 for Moon bird, a joyful cartoon that featured their two sons' fantasy of catching a big bird with rope and shovel.
Died. Bertram D. Wolfe, 81, a founder of the U.S. Communist Party in 1919 who later became a scholarly, vocal foe of Communism; of burns received when his clothing caught fire at home; in San Jose, Calif. As a Brooklyn high school teacher, Wolfe was fascinated by the Russian Revolution and became a Communist organizer and teacher. In 1929 he traveled to Moscow for the Third Communist International, where he jousted verbally with Stalin, Trotsky and Molotov. This temerity won him two months' detention; Wolfe's disillusionment with totalitarianism soon followed. He turned to historical examinations of Communism, including his classic study of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, Three Who Made a Revolution (1948), which has been printed in 28 languages.
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