Divorced. By Cinemactress Betty (The Greatest Show on Earth) Hutton, 30: Camera Manufacturer Ted Briskin, 33, on charges of mental cruelty (i.e., Briskin made her "very, very nervous"); after six years of marriage, two daughters; in Los Angeles.

Died. Shri Hanwant Singh ("Funny Face") Bahadur, 28, Maharaja of Jodhpur, amateur magician, who was trying to perform a difficult political trick: persuading Indian voters to honor his past princely glory by electing him an independent member of both the national Parliament and his own Rajasthan state assembly (TIME, Jan. 14); in the crash of his private plane in the midst of his campaign; in Jawai Bund, Rajasthan.

Died. Major General Robert H. Soule, 51, former 3rd Infantry Division commander in Korea, who won a Distinguished Service Cross for his iron-nerved handling of the X Corps' epic "advance in another direction" in December, 1950, from the Changjin Reservoir to the Hungnam beachhead; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C.

Died. Kharloin Choibalsan, 56, Premier Marshal of the (Outer) Mongolian People's Republic, one of the Kremlin's hardiest puppets; of what Moscow insisted were "natural causes" (cancer of the kidney); in the Kremlin, Moscow.

Died. Robert Porter Patterson, 60, World War I hero, lawyer, jurist, onetime (1945-47) U.S. Secretary of War; in a plane crash at Elizabeth, N.J. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Veteran Comedienne Polly (Pauline Theresa) Moran, 66, who starred in early Mack Sennett two-reelers, hit her peak as Marie Dressler's sparring partner in such early-talkie slapstick wrangles as Prosperity, Caught Short; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood.

Died. Orator Francis Woodward, 67, multimillionaire Jell-O heir whose domestic troubles and "romantic interlude" with a nurse put him on the check-signing end of two thumping divorce settlements ($1,000,000 to his first wife in 1929, $42,000 a year to his second in 1941); by suicide in a plunge from his $1,340-a-month hotel suite; in Rochester, N.Y.

Died. Sveinn Bjoernsson, 70, Iceland's president (twice reelected) since its Parliament broke its last bond with Nazi-dominated Denmark in 1944 and proclaimed the island an independent republic ; of a heart ailment; in Reykjavik.

Died. Owen McMahon Johnson, 73, Yale-educated novelist (class of '01) who spoofed his Alma Mater's social system with 1911's bestselling Stover at Yale; after long illness; in Vineyard Haven, Mass.

Died. Fannie Ward, eightyish, the "perennial flapper" whose off-stage act of perpetual youth for more than half a century outshone her stage fame; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Born in St. Louis during the Andrew Johnson (or Grant) administration, Fannie made her stage debut in 1890, got off to a fast start in the role of Cupid by accidentally winging an arrow into the leading man's eye. For the next 25 years, little (she tried to keep her weight at 100 Ibs.), blonde, lively Fannie appeared in shows in New York and London, gave more sensational performances riding up Fifth Avenue in a brougham clutching her $12,500 sables. She married London Diamond Dealer Joseph Lewis in 1898, was divorced by him in 1913, promptly married Actor John Dean, the man Lewis had named as corespondent. Angrily vowing that she never had her face lifted, Fannie claimed, depending on her audience, that her smooth, unlined skin was the result of 1) secret face creams, 2) exotic lotions, 3) a "Siberian snow face mask," 4) a young husband, 5) a diet of green vegetables.

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