Monday, Dec. 20, 1982
EXPECTING. Raquel Welch, 42, Hollywood sex symbol currently wowing Broadway audiences in Woman of the Year, and her husband Andre Weinfeld, 36, French film writer and producer; her third, his first; in August.
DIED. Marty Robbins, 57, Grand Ole Opry pop country singer, who wrote more than 500 tunes about gunfighters, unrequited love and even occasionally the constancy of women, including the million-copy-selling hits El Paso and A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation; of a heart attack; in Nashville.
DIED. Herman Lay, 73, snack-food supersalesman and entrepreneur who created the first national brand of potato chips as the head of the Dallas-based Frito-Lay Co. (1961-65), but couldn't stop with just one and kept building and merging until he was board chairman (1965-71) of the giant conglomerate PepsiCo; of cancer; in Dallas.
DIED. Leon Jaworski, 77, courteous, square-jawed Texas lawyer who gained national fame and a place in constitutional history when, as Watergate special prosecutor, he convinced the U.S. Supreme Court that even the President was bound to submit to a subpoena for White House tapes, the eventual release of which led to Richard Nixon's resignation; of an apparent heart attack; near Wimberley, Texas. The son of an Evangelical Lutheran minister, Jaworski built a large and flourishing practice in booming Houston between assignments for the Government, which ranged from serving as a prosecutor in the 1945-46 Nuremberg trials to leading the 1977-78 House investigation in the Koreagate bribery scandal. In his tireless but meticulously fair pursuit of Nixon, Jaworski resisted pressure first from the White House and later from an angered public when he supported Nixon's pardon. If the "court asked me if I believed Nixon could receive a fair trial," he explained, "I would have to answer, as an officer of the court, in the negative."
DIED. Freeman Gosden, 83, the Virginia-born white who played the straight and solid Amos to the late Charles Correll's gullible Andy in the Negro-dialect comedy radio show that was a national craze for most of its 31 -year run; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Gosden also did the voices of the bamboozling George "Kingfish" Stevens and the shuffling Lightnin' until the show succumbed to poor ratings in 1960.
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