Monday, Aug. 21, 1978
MARRIED. Anna Karina, 38, ex-wife and protegee of France's New Wave film director Jean-Luc Godard, and Daniel Duval, 34, also a film director; she for the third time, he for the first; in La Garde-Freinet, France.
DIED. Jean Juge, 70, Switzerland's best-known mountaineer, and former president of the International Alpine Association; of exposure; on the Matterhorn, Switzerland. Though he had scaled the treacherous north face of the Eiger, Juge's greatest ambition was to conquer the summit of the Matterhorn. With two young climbers he reached the top, then began the 14,688-ft. descent in slippery conditions after the country's worst rain and snow in 25 years. Too tired to continue, Juge stayed on the mountain while his companions went for help. When a helicopter came to his rescue, he was already dead.
DIED. Victor Hasselblad, 72, Swedish inventor of the Hasselblad camera; of cancer; in Gothenburg, Sweden. Born into a family of devoted amateur photography addicts, Hasselblad dreamed of developing his own camera and got a chance to do so for the Swedish air force in World War II. Then in 1948 he introduced the world's first 2 1/4-in. by 2 1/4-in. single-lens reflex camera with interchangeable lenses and magazines. It quickly became a favorite of professional photographers, earning a reputation as the Rolls-Royce of its field, and later was adopted by NASA for all its manned spaceflights. Michael Collins let go of his on his space walk, so a Hasselblad is still circling the earth as Sweden's only satellite.
DIED. Lo Jui-ching, 72, China's ex-Minister of Public Security under Mao Tse-tung throughout the 1950s, and later army chief of staff, who weathered political disgrace in the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s to make a remarkable comeback; of heart disease; in Peking. Lo was an early victim of the militaristic Red Guards, who led him to attempt a suicide jump from a besieged building. His literal fall from power broke only a leg but sidelined him until 1975, when he reappeared first with a minor military post, then on the Communist Party's Central Committee.
DIED. Edward Durell Stone, 76, world-famous architect whose 1954 design for the U.S. embassy in New Delhi epitomized the highly embellished style of his later years; after a brief illness, in New York. Touring Europe in 1927, Stone had his first look at the stark glass and aluminum "international style" that he would use in his 1937 design for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. But years later, after his El Panama Hotel in Panama City was built in 1949, Stone denounced his austere designs as resembling "the latest model automobile, doomed to early obsolescence." Aiming at what he called the "assurance of permanence," he turned to more solid structures of concrete, brick and stone. For two decades, Stone produced variations of the New Delhi embassy, with its boxlike shape, gold-leaf columns, lacy concrete grille, fountains and reflecting pool. These works were frequently criticized as superficial and "bargain Taj Mahal," but Stone remained busy with important commissions. His General Motors building in Manhattan was completed in 1968 and Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1972.
DIED. Jesse Haines, 85, Hall of Fame pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals; in Dayton, Ohio. In 1920, after other major-league teams shunned him, Haines was signed up for the then considerable sum of $10,000 by Branch Rickey, manager of the Cardinals. Haines relied on his knuckle-ball to compile a 210-158 lifetime won-lost record with a 3.64 earned run average. A quiet player who tended a commercial garage offseason, he pitched until he was 44, earning the fond nickname "Pop" from his teammates, the "Gashouse Gang."
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