Born. To Jerry Lee Lewis, 23, rock-'n'-oll singer whose tour of Great Britain TIME, June 9) was cut short by public outrage ("Go home, baby snatcher! Go wheel your wife in a pram!"), and Myra .ewis, 14, his cousin and third wife: a ion, their first child; in Ferriday, La.
Born. To Janet Blair (real name: Martha Janet Lafferty), 38, actress (Sid Caesar's third TV wife, Eileen in the first ilm version of My Sister Eileen), and STick Mayo, 37, producer: their first child,
daughter; in Hollywood.
Died. Albert James ("Albie") Booth Jr., 51, Yale '32, 5-ft.7-in., 144-lb. football quarterback, dropkicker, All-America; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Yale's Little Boy Blue scampered to fame against Army in 1929, outshining the great Chris Cagle, scoring three touchdowns and kicking three extra points as Yale overcame a 13-0 disadvantage to win 21-13. His playing career never left the high plane of its beginning. In his senior year Harvard entered the Yale game undefeated. After 57 minutes of hard, scoreless play, Captain Albie Booth took a snap from center, dropped the ball, sent it flying through the crossbars: Yale 3, Harvard 0. A football referee in recent years, he was a division manager for the National Dairy Products Co.
Died. Mack Gordon (real name: Morris Gittler), 54, jumbo (over 300 Ibs.) Hollywood lyricist (Chattanooga Choo Choo, Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?), longtime partner of the late Composer Harry Revel (TIME, Nov. 17); of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Abner ("Longie") Zwillman, 54, called by the FBI the "leader of the New Jersey underworld''; by his own hand (hanging) ; in his 20-room mansion in West Orange, N.J. Longie Zwillman, who once used the alias George Long, came out of Newark slums to become a rich and famed Jazz Age bootlegger, peer and sometime friend of the best names in the blue book of U.S. crime: Dutch Schultz. Louis (Lepke) Buchalter. Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Al Capone. In 1951 New York City's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer linked him with the Brooklyn syndicate, Murder Inc. The US. Government indicted him in 1954 for income tax evasion. But Longie was no rap-rack (six months behind bars in his life): he lived in the white space around the letter of the law. Married to a handsome blonde Junior Leaguer, he was civic-minded, gave thousands to help the blind, financed soup kitchens. Recently he held an interest in the vending-machine business, was scheduled to appear before the McClellan committee. Also, the FBI has arrested several of his friends for bribing the jury that in 1956 failed to find Longie guilty of income tax evasion.