Monday, Sep. 04, 1978
MARRIED. Kate Jackson, 28, almond-eyed beauty of TV's adventure series Charlie's Angels; and Andrew Stevens, 23, budding star of the miniseries The Bastard and son of Actress Stella Stevens; both for the first time; on Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
DIED. Louis Prima, 66, jazz trumpeter and gravel-voiced singer and bandleader; after lingering in a coma for three years; in New Orleans. With his wife, Singer Keely Smith, he staged a raucous nightclub act that made the couple Las Vegas headliners until their divorce in 1961.
DIED. John Fischer, 68, gentlemanly editor of Harper's magazine from 1953 to 1967; of complications following surgery; in New Haven, Conn. Fischer imbued Harper's with graceful, intelligent prose and humor. He became known for encouraging writers and for the cool reason of his column, "The Easy Chair."
DIED. Charles Eames, 71, modern designer whose name became synonymous with his curved chairs; of a heart attack; in St. Louis. In 1941, while designing molded machine parts for the U.S. Navy, Eames collaborated by night with his wife Ray to produce the "potato chip," a sculptured wood back and separate seat, both affixed to a steel frame. Today his molded plastic chairs are found in airline terminals and office lobbies the world over.
DIED. Charles Boyer, 78, debonair, French-born Hollywood star of the '30s and '40s; of an apparent heart attack suffered two days after his wife of 36 years had died; in Phoenix. Endowed with a voice that women found deeply sensual, Boyer was probably best known for the invitation credited to him (but never uttered) in Algiers: "Come weez me to ze Casbah."
DIED. Ignazio Silone, 78, Italian novelist and a founding member of his country's Communist Party in 1921; in Geneva. Driven into Swiss exile by Mussolini's blackshirts for his political activities, Si-lone wrote two bitterly anti-Fascist and well-received novels, Fontamara (1930) and Bread and Wine (1936). Returning to Italy in 1944, he had a second fling with politics, then retired to his writing.
DIED. Jomo Kenyatta, eightyish, President of Kenya, who led his country to independence; in Mombasa (see WORLD).
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