Married. Freddie Prinze, 21, the self-described Hungarican (half Hungarian, half Puerto Rican) comic who plays the cheeky Chicano garage attendant on TV's top-rated Chico and the Man; and Kathy Cochran, 23, a Jackson Hole, Wyo., travel agent he met on a ski trip last spring; both for the first time; in Las Vegas.
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Died. Jacques Charon, 55, leading actor and director for 34 years at the Comedie Franchise, France's internationally renowned classical theater; of a heart attack; in Paris. With his pudgy, infinitely elastic face and unerring sense of comic misunderstanding, Charon was a standout onstage. One awed critic, reviewing his performance as Sganarelle in Moliere's Don Juan, observed that he could command a scene even when he was "simply standing onstage and watching." As a director, he could bring off the most frantic Feydeau farce with clockwork-perfect timing, achieving maximum impact.
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Died. Kay Daly Leslie, 55, harddriving, creative adwoman behind most of Revlon, Inc.'s campaigns for 25 years, who helped build the huge U.S. cosmetics industry; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan. Reared in Wisconsin, Daly crashed male-dominated Madison Avenue in the early 1950s when as an agency copywriter she drew up Revlon's famous "Fire and Ice" campaign. It brought sex appeal to the selling of lipstick and nail polish and made Daly indispensable to Revlon. Later she became vice president and creative director of the company, where (at $100,000 plus) she was one of the nation's highest-salaried women.
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Died. Charles ("Swede") Risberg, 81, one of eight Chicago White Sox players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in the celebrated "Black Sox" scandal; in Red Bluff, Calif. After the best-of-nine series, which the underdog Reds won 5-3, several White Sox players told a Chicago grand jury that they had intentionally played poorly after gamblers plied them with bribes (up to $10,000) and threatened their families. A trial jury later acquitted eight players, including Shortstop Risberg and Outfielder Joe ("Say it ain't so, Joe") Jackson, of conspiracy charges, but Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis suspended them from the game for life. Risberg retired to his Minnesota dairy farm to brood. Six years later, he decided to try to sweep the slate clean with a declaration that he and other White Sox players had paid Ty Cobb's Detroit Tigers to "slough off a Labor Day series that allowed Chicago to clinch the 1917 American League pennant.