Monday, Jul. 20, 1981
BORN. To Lynn Redgrave, 38, versatile British-born actress of screen (Georgy Girl), stage (My Fat Friend) and TV (House Calls), and John Clark, 48, her manager and a film, stage and TV director: their third child, second daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Annabell Lucy. Weight: 9 lbs. 2 oz.
DIED. Yevgeni Kharitonov, 40, Russian poet and playwright; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Last year, with six other Soviet writers, Kharitonov sought to form a literary club and publish an experimental journal; the KGB seized their unpublished manuscripts. Kharitonov once wrote ironically that writers need restrictions because "violating them provides the nerve of our art."
DIED. Meyer Levin, 75, prolific author and Zionist; of a stroke; in Jerusalem. Originally a Chicago newspaperman, Levin wrote novels, plays, documentary-film scripts and books of Jewish lore. His biggest success was Compulsion, a 1956 novel based on the sensational Leopold-Loeb murder case he later turned into a hit play and movie.
DIED. Emile Zola Berman, 78, New York trial lawyer and attorney for countless underdog clients and unpopular causes, who was best known for helping to defend Sirhan Sirhan, the killer of Senator Robert F. Kennedy; in New York City. Berman first came to national attention in 1956, when he defended a Marine sergeant who was court-martialed for the drowning of six young recruits during a disciplinary march through a tidal creek at Parris Island, S.C. While representing Sirhan, who was convicted of first-degree murder in 1969, Berman explained: "I'm not defending his crime, only his rights."
DIED. Manuel Urrutia Lleo, 79, Cuban judge who in January 1959 became the first provisional President of Fidel Castro's revolutionary government, only to be denounced as a traitor by Castro six months later and forced to resign; in New York City. Urrutia, who charged that Castro had transformed Cuba into a "Red hell," spent four years under house arrest and in asylum at the Venezuelan and Mexican embassies in Havana before gaining safe-conduct to the U.S., where he led a coalition of 22 anti-Castro exile groups.
DIED. Walter Langer, 82, Boston-born psychoanalyst whose Freudian study of Adolf Hitler for the Office of Strategic Services in 1943 was used by Allied leaders as a guide to strategy during the remainder of World War II and was published 29 years later under the title The Mind of Adolf Hitler; in Sarasota, Fla. Langer, who interviewed former friends and associates of the Nazi dictator, characterized him as "probably a neurotic psychopath bordering on schizophrenia" and predicted his suicide.
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