Friday, Apr. 19, 1968
Married. Scott Morrow Lindbergh, 25, youngest son of Charles; and Monique Dubois, an artist he met while studying in Paris; in Chataincourt, France.
Married. Vittorio De Sica, 65, cinema's high priest of neorealism (The Bicycle Thief; Two Women); and Maria Mercader, 51, Spanish-born actress, his constant companion for 20 years; in Fains, France. To evade his country's no-divorce laws, the Italian director became a French citizen in 1966, was later granted a divorce from his first wife, Giuditta Rissone.
Divorced. Gina Lollobrigida, 40, Italy's ever beautiful, always busy (Hotel Paradiso) movie queen; and Milko Skofic, 48, the Yugoslav-born physician she married 19 years ago; by mutual consent after a legal separation of 18 months; in Vienna. Since La Lollo retains Italian citizenship, she is still Signora Skofic back home.
Divorced. Tony Curtis, 42, one of Hollywood's oldest baby-faces (Sex and the Single Girl); by Christine Kaufmann, 23, sometime actress (Taras Bulba); on uncontested grounds of mental cruelty; after five years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles.
Divorced. By Michael Langhorne Astor, 52, son of the late second Viscount Astor, and former Conservative member of Parliament: Patricia Astor, 38, daughter of Sir Bede Clifford, onetime (1942-46) governor of Trinidad and Tobago; on uncontested charges of adultery; after six years of marriage, no children; in London.
Died. Heinrich Nordhoff, 69, the man who sent Volkswagens around the world (see BUSINESS).
Died. Edward S. Crocker, 72, U.S. diplomat who in 1941, as first secretary of the embassy in Tokyo, received the official Japanese declaration of war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, and spent the next seven months in confinement at the embassy until the Swiss arranged his release; after a long illness; in Manhattan. "At no time in the history of civilized nations were diplomatic representatives so treated," said he of the constant harassment by Japanese police.
Died. Harold Babcock, 86, pioneer astronomer credited with discovering periodic reversals in the sun's magnetic field; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. Babcock was in semiretirement in 1958 when he noticed the reversals, theorized they would occur every eleven years and would change the shape of sunspots, dark areas on the solar surface that cause magnetic storms.
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