Monday, Aug. 14, 1978
BORN. To George Harrison, 35, last of the ex-Beatles to father a child; and Olivia Arias, 30, his Mexican-American friend, who met Harrison four years ago when she worked as a secretary for his Los Angeles record company; a son; in Windsor, England. Name: Dhani, translated from Hindi as "rich person."
MARRIED. Christina Onassis, 27, Greek Shipping Heiress; and Sergei Kauzov, 37, former Soviet Shipping Bureaucrat; in Moscow (see WORLD).
DIED. Totie Fields, 48, talk-show comedian who staged a comeback to the nightclub circuit following the amputation of her left leg in 1976; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas. She used to joke about her 4-ft. 11-in., 190-lb. figure: "Obese, hefty, overweight, rotund. I never knew there were so many ways to say fatty."
DIED. Frank Fontaine, 56, comedian known as "Crazy Guggenham"; of a heart attack; in Spokane, Wash. A zany second banana to Jackie Gleason on TV during the '60s. Fontaine had just completed a benefit show and accepted a check for $25,000, which he planned to donate for heart research, when he collapsed.
DIED. Gunther Rennert, 67, jet-hopping German Opera Director; of a lung embolism; in Salzburg. Rennert's experience with film and theater direction paid off in 1946 when British authorities offered him the intendancy of the war-devastated Hamburg Opera. Ten years later, Rennert left the company to direct opera, with his typical theatrical flair, on a freelance basis throughout Europe and the U.S.
DIED. Carlos Chavez, 79, foremost Mexican composer and conductor; of a heart ailment; in Mexico City, Chavez began by writing folk-tinged compositions (the ballet HP in 1926) and gradually embraced romanticism (Sinfoma Romantica in 1953).
DIED. Ben Moreell, 85, retired Four-Star Admiral who created and commanded the Navy's World War II Seabee units; of cancer; in Pittsburgh. Seeing a need for wartime construction crews that could fend off attack, Moreell recruited a new corps of gun-toting workers he called the Seabees, for CBs, or Construction Battalions. He directed their $10 billion fortification of Atlantic-Pacific bases, and had the foresight to include Pearl Harbor, which gained two docks invaluable in its recovery from the 1941 Japanese invasion. After the war, Moreell became Chairman of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
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