Married. Dionne Warwick, 26, top star of soul music; and William David Elliott, 33, musician and sometime actor whom she divorced last May after nearly a year of marriage; following a reconciliation during her current European tour; in Milan, Italy.
Divorced. Joseph S. Clark, 65, two-term Democratic Senator from Pennsylvania; by Noel Hall Clark, fiftyish; in an uncontested suit (she said he made her life “intolerable and burdensome”); after 32 years of marriage, one child; in Philadelphia.
Died. Brian Epstein, 32, discoverer, manager and father confessor of the Beatles (see SHOW BUSINESS).
Died. Robert King High, 43, mayor of Miami since 1957 and unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Florida’s governorship last year; of a heart attack; in Coral Gables. A scrappy Tennessee-born lawyer, High asserted strong leadership in what is a largely ceremonial post (an administrator runs day-to-day operations), easing racial tensions by organizing a civic panel to hear Negro job grievances and working effectively to resettle over 100,000 exiles from Castro’s Cuba. Last year he defeated incumbent Governor Hayden Burns in a gloves-off primary fight, but did not have the muscle to match Claude Kirk, who became Florida’s first Republican Governor in 94 years.
Died. Ad Reinhardt, 53, prophet of minimal art; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Starting as a cubist, Reinhardt gradually reduced color, texture and deign to almost jet-black canvas squares, with only the slightest shadings of muted colors and black-on-black stripes. “I’m just making the last paintings anyone can make,” he said. Critics long tended to dismiss his grail as more void than essence, yet in recent years the art world rewarded his search with fame and up to $15,000 per canvas.
Died. Ralph Humphrey, 60, older brother of the Vice President, manager of the family’s drugstore in Huron, S. Dak.; of cancer; in Minneapolis.
Died. William Hawley Bowlus, 71, pioneer glider pilot and the man responsible for building Charles A. Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis, who started making sailplanes as a teen-ager in 1910, after World War I joined Plane Builder T. Claude Ryan as plant superintendent in charge of constructing the Spirit, later taught both Lindy and his wife Anne the art of soaring; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, Calif.
Died. Katherine Thompson Wood, 74, wealthy Wilmington and Philadelphia society matron and elder sister of
James Thompson, the Thailand silk millionaire who has been missing since March; of a brutal beating inflicted by an unknown assailant in the bedroom of her mansion 15 miles west of Wilmington, Del. Her death was as mysterious as her brother’s disappearance: there was no sign of forced entry, and none of her valuables was missing.
Died. Ilya Ehrenburg, 76, Soviet author and cultural windsock for half a century (see THE WORLD).
Died. Charles B. Darrow, 78, inventor of Monopoly, the dice-and-scrip game of tabletop capitalism on which two generations of Americans have sharpened their wits; of a heart attack; in Ottsville, Pa. Like so many others, Darrow lost his salesman’s job in Depression 1929, and dreamed up his game because “I decided the most exciting thing in the world would be to play with money.” It was so much fun for everybody that Darrow was soon in production, selling first to his friends, then to stores, and finally selling out to Parker Bros. in 1935. Over the years, he collected more than $1,000,000 in royalties from the sale of some 45 million sets. “I’m not greedy,” he said, as he lived his life of happily retired leisure, growing orchids and touring the world in style with his family.
Died. Sidney Bradshaw Fay, 91, authority on German history and longtime (1929-67) Harvard professor, who in his classic two-volume analysis, The Origins of the World War (1928) was the first to disprove the idea that Germany was World War I’s sole villain; following prostate surgery; in Lexington, Mass. In Fay’s dispassionate, meticulously researched study, virtually all of Europe shared Germany’s guilt—Austria for its desire to crush Serbian independence, Serbia’s leaders for their foreknowledge of the Sarajevo assassination plot, Russia for its encouragement of the Serbs, France for its secret pledge of support to Russia, and Britain for its indecision at the pivotal moment; in fact, wrote Fay, Germany made belated but genuine attempts to contain the fighting in the first few days after Archduke Ferdinand’s murder.
Died. Florence Jaffray (“Daisy”) Harriman, 97, grande dame of the Democratic Party and Averell’s cousin by marriage, a spirited New York socialite who in 1922 founded the Woman’s National Democratic Club, later won F.D.R.’s appointment as Minister to Norway, where in 1940 she barely escaped the invading Nazis, after which she conducted a celebrity-filled Washington salon, keeping, as she said, her “box seat at the America of my times”; after a long illness; in Washington.
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