Born. To Roger Maris, 26, New York Yankee bleacher-blaster, and Patricia Carveil Maris, 26, his North Dakota high school sweetheart: their fourth child, third son; in Kansas City, Mo.
Married. Horst Eichmann, 21, Buenos Aires technician who on marriage license papers listed the occupation of his father, Nazi Adolf Eichmann, as “Lieutenant Colonel retired”; and Elvira Pummer, 21, an Argentine student whom the groom met in New York when he was a merchant seaman and she was visiting relatives; in a civil ceremony in suburban Buenos Aires to be followed by Roman Catholic rites.
Married. Audrey Meadows, 36, China-born comedienne who was Sid Caesar’s fourth TV wife; and Robert F. Six, 54, bustling president of Continental Airlines; she for the second time, he for the third (previous incumbent: Ethel Merman); in Honolulu.
Died. Cameron Shipp, 57, top Hollywood ghostwriter whose clients ranged from Billie Burke (With a Feather on My Nose) to Lionel Barrymore (We Barrymores), and who rebuffed critics of his craft with the argument that “after all, Moses was the first ‘as-told-toer’ “; of a heart attack; in Glendale, Calif.
Died. Sir Charles Kingsley Webster, 75, British diplomatic-historian whose scholarly studies of the Congress of Vienna served him in good stead as a member of the British delegation at the creation of the U.N.; in London.
Died. G. (for George) Ward Price, 75, intrepid London Daily Mail correspondent who covered every European conflict from the Balkan War of 1912 through World War II, scored a succession of 1930s scoops as a Hitler confidant and apologist (“Behind the forceful character which Hitler displays in public, there is a pleasant personality known only to his intimates”); after a long illness; in London.
Died. Percy Williams Bridgman, 79, metaphysically-inclined Yankee physicist who for 24 years occupied Harvard’s prestigious Hollis Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, in 1946 won the Nobel Prize for his career-long study of the effect of high pressures (from 100,000 times the earth’s normal atmosphere and up) on matter; by his own hand (.22-cal. sawed-off rifle) following the onset of cancer; in Randolph, N.H.
Died. Abbé Henri Breuil, 84, paleontologist-priest who in the face of disbelieving colleagues proclaimed the paleolithic origin of the famed cave paintings at Altamira, Spain, and the Dordogne region of France—a contention that was later borne out by radioactive-carbon dating; near Paris.
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