Monday, Jul. 26, 1982
BORN. To Sissy Spacek, 32, Oscar-winning actress (Coal Miner's Daughter), and Jack Fisk, 36, Spacek's husband, who directed her in Raggedy Man; their first child, a girl; in Los Angeles. Name: Schuyler Elizabeth.
SENTENCED. Sun Myung Moon, 62, founder of the Unification Church; to 18 months in prison for tax evasion; in U.S. District Court in New York City. Moon was also fined the maximum $25,000 and is free on a $250,000 bond pending an appeal.
DIED. Jackie Jensen, 55, strapping Boston Red Sox outfielder whose solid hitting and sure fielding won him the 1958 American League's Most Valuable Player award, but whose agonized fear of flying led him to cut short his career; of a heart attack; in Charlottesville, Va.
DIED. Kenneth More, 67, veteran British stage and screen actor whose characterizations ranged from the rollicking buffoon of such films as Doctor in the House (1954) to the chin-up R.A.F. pilot of Reach for the Sky (1956); of Parkinson's disease; in London. "I seem fated to be either the stiff-upper-lip war hero or the hearty, beer-drinking idiot," More once complained. The remark was overly self-deprecating, as his wonderfully whimsical performance in Genevieve (1953) testified.
DIED. Courtlandt S. Gross, 77, president, then chairman of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. from 1956 to 1967, who turned the struggling company into a leviathan; of gunshot wounds during a break-in by intruders who also shot his wife and a live-in housekeeper; at their mansion in Villanova, Pa. Originally a salesman, Gross entered Lockheed in 1932 when his older brother Robert and partners bought control of a company then in receivership. Under Gross, Lockheed diversified, building satellites, Poseidon missiles and ships in addition to supersonic airplanes. During one astounding four-year burst in the early 1960s, he nearly doubled Lockheed's profits. A courtly Boston-born Harvard man who enjoyed such amenities as English-tailored suits and custom-made shoes, he could also answer half seriously, when asked what he did for a living, "I am an aircraft mechanic."
DIED. Maria Jeritza, 94, soprano golden girl of opera's golden age; in Orange, N.J. Combining a radiant voice with flamboyant acting, the Austrian-born singer began her ascent to stardom in 1912, when the Emperor Franz Josef invited her to join the Vienna Royal Opera. At the Metropolitan Opera, where she sang from 1921 to 1932, the director reported that the largest ovation he had ever heard followed her "Vissi d'arte, "the great second-act aria in Tosca; she sang it prostrate on the floor. A tempestuous diva onstage and off, Jeritza gathered three husbands, prompted whispers of affairs with composers and feuded audaciously with tenors and other sopranos.
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