Friday, Feb. 23, 1962
Married. Natalie Owings, 22, sloe-eyed daughter of Architect Nathaniel Owings; and John Fell Stevenson, 25, Adlai's third son; in Big Sur, Calif.
Divorced. By Dr. Roger Gilliatt, 38, English neurologist who was best man at Princess Margaret's wedding: Penelope Conner Gilliatt, 29, redheaded film critic for the London Observer; after seven years of marriage, no children; on grounds of her adultery with Playwright John Osborne, 32; in London.
Died. Empress Wolzero Menen of Ethiopia, 71, wife of Emperor Selassie, an amiable, portly matriarch who confined her interests largely to church (Coptic) and children (three) but once freed her husband from imprisonment by crashing down Abyssinia's Royal Palace gates with a whippet tank; after a long illness; in Addis Ababa.
Died. Aloisius Joseph Cardinal Muench, 72, only U.S. prelate ever to serve on the Roman Curia, a witty Midwesterner who championed social and labor legislation, served for 13 years as papal representative in West Germany; of Parkinson's disease; in Rome.
Died. Hugh Dalton. Baron of Forest and Frith, 74, onetime power in Britain's Labor Party, a stentorian, expensively tailored Eton-and-Cambridge product who renounced court life--his father was tutor to Queen Victoria's children--for Socialist politics, rose to become Minister of Economic Warfare in Winston Churchill's World War II coalition government and Chancellor of the Exchequer in Clement Attlee's postwar Labor government, but in 1947 blasted his career by indiscreetly leaking his budget proposals to a reporter friend, thereafter sank ever deeper into political obscurity until Queen Elizabeth appointed him a life peer in 1960; of a stroke; in London.
Died. Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, 85, giant among U.S. editorial cartoonists, a Congregational minister's son from Michigan who joshed the mighty and matchlessly caught the stance of his times in 48 years at the drawing board, chiefly for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate; of a heart attack; in Des Moines.
Died. Bruno Walter (born Bruno Walter Schlesinger), 85, peerless, poetic interpreter of romantic music, a Berlin-born piano prodigy, who as a young coach with the Hamburg Opera fell under the influence of Composer Gustav Mahler ("It was a revelation to me that a living man could be a genius"), whose works he championed in a distinguished conducting career that took him from Riga to Covent Garden and--following the rise of Hitler--to high esteem in the U.S.; of a heart attack; at his Beverly Hills, Calif., home.
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