Friday, Apr. 01, 1966

Born. To Pierre Salinger, 40, President Kennedy's press secretary and later five-month interim U.S. Senator from California, now a $70,000-a-year vice president of Continental Airlines; and Nicole Salinger, 27, his French-born third wife, a journalist who won him in a campaign interview: their first child, a son (he has three children by his first wife); in Los Angeles.

Married. G. McMurtrie Godley, 48, U.S. Ambassador to the Congo, a longtime (25-year) career diplomat who served in the Congo for more than three years through the country's bloody birth pangs; and Mrs. Elizabeth McCray Johnson, 34, his private secretary; both for the second time; in Leopoldville.

Died. John Harlin, 31, a onetime dress designer for Dior and Balmain and an Air Force polar survival expert who became a noted Alpinist and the first American to conquer two of the most dreaded Alps, the Matterhorn and the Eiger, via their treacherous north faces, opened a school in Switzerland specializing in direttissima, an innovation that ignores the traditional zigging and zagging around danger spots for a damn-the-obstacles, straight-up climb to the top; as a result of a 3,000-ft. fall during the first direttissima attempt on the Eiger, successfully completed by the rest of the team three days after he became the mountain's 29th victim; in Kleine Scheidegg, Switzerland.

Died. Virginia Hill, 49, redheaded, free-spending playmate of the underworld, who first gained notoriety in 1947 when Boy Friend Bugsy Siegel, Murder Inc.'s West Coast representative, was executed, gangland-style, in her Beverly Hills living room, and who later acted out a cameo role before the late Senator Estes Kefauver's Senate crime committee, playing dumb about the business dealings of her many racketeer friends but boggling Senators with her full-grown curves and succinct explanation of just why men would lavish money on a hospitable girl from Bessemer, Ala.; apparently by her own hand (barbiturates); near Salzburg, Austria, where she fled with her ski-instructor husband, Hans Hauser, in 1951 to escape tax evasion charges.

Died. Mary L. McCarran, 59, daughter of the late U.S. Senator Pat Mc Carran, who spent 32 years as Sister Mary Mercy, a Holy Names nun, often driven to despair as her politically influential father constantly meddled in her cloistered life--winning her trips to Europe, paying for her to come to Washington's Catholic University for a Ph.D. and helping her stretch her poverty vows by sending his limousine around to pick her up at the Library of Congress--until his death in 1954, after which she left the order to care for her mother and ailing sister, later became a successful stockbroker, a three-book author and a college humanities teacher; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md.

Died. Pierre J. Huss, 63, longtime Hearst byliner who catalogued the Third Reich from Hitler's early rise to the final justice of Niirnberg, at first failing to recognize the true Nazi intent and reporting, one month after the invasion of Poland and seven months before the blitzkrieg through Belgium and The Netherlands, that Germany had "no aim to wage a war of offense," but later scooping fellow newsmen on the Hitler-Eva Braun suicide pact and becoming one of the best spotters of Communist subterfuge during a 20-year stint at the United Nations; of a heart attack; at the U.N.

Died. J. Anthony Smythe, 80, a real-life bachelor who was a father image to three decades of radio listeners as Hen ry Barbour, patriarch on One Man's Family, over which he presided for 26 years (until the program went off the air in 1959) with a mellifluous voice and an air of kindly concern about the trials of his growing family, striking a responsive chord with millions of fans who faced the Depression, the War and even the Kinsey Report comforted by hearing Father Barbour's paternal insights; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles.

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