MARRIED. Gene Autry, 73, former singing cowboy star who now owns the California Angels baseball team and a string of TV and radio stations; and Jacqueline Ellam, 39, a former vice president of the Cathedral City, Calif, branch of Security Pacific National Bank; he for the second time, she for the first; in Burbank, Calif. Autry, whose first wife Ina Mae died last year, met Ellam 15 years ago when he went to her bank to negotiate a loan.
DIED. Carol Fox, 55, feisty, determined co-founder of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, who, as its general manager for 25 years, helped build it into one of the country’s leading opera companies; of a heart attack; in Chicago. A former voice student, Fox gave Maria Callas her U.S. debut and brought so many top-ranked Italian singers to the Lyric that the company was dubbed “La Scala West.”
DIED. Fernand Spaak, 57, Belgian diplomat who headed the European Community Commission’s delegation to Washington from 1975 to 1980 and who hi February became chief of staff to Commission President Gaston Thorn hi Brussels; of wounds received when he was shot with a hunting rifle, apparently by his estranged wife of 28 years, Anna-Maria, who then appears to have committed suicide by electrocuting herself in the bath; in Ixelles, Belgium. The son of Paul-Henri Spaak, the former Belgian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister who played a major role in the formation of the European Community and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Spaak helped formulate the Community’s position at last week’s Ottawa summit, for which he was about to depart when he was killed.
DIED. Gabriel Hauge, 67, eloquent, scholarly banker and top economic aide to President Dwight Eisenhower; of cancer; in Manhattan. The Minnesota-born economist taught at Harvard and Princeton before becoming a speechwriter in Eisenhower’s 1952 presidential campaign. Less conservative than most of the President’s advisers, he opposed Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist crusade and favored liberalized foreign trade policies.
He joined the Manufacturers Trust Co. in 1958, presided over its 1961 merger with the Hanover Bank, and was chairman of Manufacturers Hanover Trust, the fourth largest U.S. bank, from 1971 to 1979.
DIED. Abram Kardiner, 89, American psychoanalyst who in 1930 co-founded the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, the first psychiatric training school in the U.S., and was one of the last persons living to have been analyzed by Sigmund Freud; in Easton, Conn. A leader in the “environmental” school of psychiatry, which stresses the interplay of the psyche and culture, Kardiner once described Freud—his teacher and analyst in 1921 —as both a “genius,” and “a regular guy.’
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