Monday, Aug. 10, 1953

Married. Joan Douglas Dillon, 18, daughter of U.S. Ambassador to France Clarence Douglas Dillon; and James Brady Moseley, 22, Harvard junior and son of a Manhattan broker; in Paris. After civil and religious ceremonies, some 600 guests attended a Mass celebrated in the Madeleine by the Rev. Pierre Couturier, known as "the Picasso Priest," for his patronage of modern French religious art.

Married. Alan Nunn May, 42, bald, unrepentant ("I have no regrets") British spy, only member of the wartime Soviet atomic espionage ring (which included Klaus Fuchs and the Rosenbergs) to regain his freedom; and Hildegarde Pauline Ruth Broda, 42, Vienna-born assistant school medical officer; he for the first time, she for the second; in Cambridge, England.

Married. Dr. John Raleigh Mott, 88, elder statesman of Protestantism, Methodist layman, honorary president of the World Council of Churches and the World's Alliance of the Y.M.C.A., and a 1946 Nobel Peace Prizewinner; and Agnes Peter, 73, great-great-great granddaughter of Martha Custis Washington; he for the second time (his first wife, Leila White Mott, died last year), she for the first; in Georgetown, D.C.

Marriage Revealed. Jackie Coogan, 38, balding onetime Hollywood child star (The Kid) turned TV performer (Pantomime Quiz) ; and Dancer Dodie Lamphere, 28; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Mexico City, in April 1952.

Died. William Tudor Gardiner, 61, two-term Republican governor of Maine (1929-33), wealthy corporation executive (Northwest Airlines, the Pacific Coast Co., etc.), soldier in both World Wars; in the crash of his private plane; near Allentown, Pa. Descendant of an old Maine family, he was a star athlete at Groton and Harvard. In 1928 Lawyer Gardiner sailed a yawl up & down the Maine coast, campaigning for the governorship, won election by 80,000 votes. In World War II, as an Army colonel, he accompanied General Maxwell D. Taylor on a daring mission to German-occupied Rome (1943) to secure a pledge of loyalty from Dictator Mussolini's aging successor, Marshal Pietro Badoglio, 20 hours before the Allied invasion of Italy.

Died. Robert Alphonso Taft, 63, majority leader of the U.S. Senate since last January, Senator from Ohio since 1939, of malignant tumors; in Manhattan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Dr. Elmer Lee Henderson, 68, Louisville surgeon, who as president of the American Medical Association (1950-51) led its successful $4,500,000 campaign against the Truman-Ewing health plan; of cancer; in Louisville.

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