Married. Mattiwilda Dobbs, 27 coloratura soprano of Atlanta, Ga., who last month became the first Negro ever to win a principal role at La Scala opera house (TIME, March 16); and Luis Rodriguez Garcia de la Piedra, 30, Spanish journalist; in Genoa, Italy.

Died. Anthony R. ("Tony") Gizzo, 52 Kansas City underworld bigshot; of a heart attack; in Dallas, where he had gone to visit son Robert Gizzo, jailed on a narcotics robbery charge. A sidekick of Political Mobster Charles Binaggio, who got his in a 1950 gang killing, Gizzo was named by the Senate crime investigators as the Capone mob's Kansas City gambling liaison man.

Died. Onetime King Carol II of Rumania, 59; of a heart attack; in exile at Estoril, Portugal (see FOREIGN NEWS).

Died. Asaf Ali, 64, India's first Ambassador to the U.S. (1947-48), Moslem husband of a firebrand Hindu socialist (Aruna Asaf Ali); of a heart attack; in Bern, Switzerland, where he served as Indian minister.

Died. Schuyler Merritt, 99, industrialist, nine-term (until 1936) Republican Congressman from Connecticut, and oldest Yale graduate (class of 1873); in Stamford, Conn. He campaigned for an express highway cutting through heavily traveled Connecticut, finally got a 37-mile, $21 million, landscaped toll road which opened in 1938 as the Merritt Parkway.

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