Friday, Mar. 02, 1962
Married. Arthur Miller, 46, famed Broadway playwright and ex-husband of Marilyn Monroe; and Ingeborg Morath, 38, Vienna-born freelance photographer; he for the third time, she for the second; in New Milford, Conn.
Divorced. Princess Christine Margarethe of Hesse, 29, lissome niece of Britain's Prince Philip; by Prince Andrej of Yugoslavia, 32, insurance-broking brother of former King Peter II of Yugoslavia; after 5 1/2 years of marriage, two children; on grounds of her adultery with London Art Restorer Robert Floris Van Eyck; in London.
Divorced. Chuck (The Rifleman) Connors, 40, onetime Chicago Cubs first baseman who found his real niche as a fatherly good guy on TV westerns; by Elizabeth Riddell Connors, 34, who charged that "all the adulation was what he needed more than us''; after 14 years of marriage, four children; on grounds of mental cruelty; in Los Angeles.
Died. Major Salah Salem, 42, former Egyptian Minister of National Guidance and one of the original members of the officers' junta that overthrew King Farouk, a flamboyant opportunist who won international notoriety in 1953 as "the Dancing Major" when he was photographed dancing in his undershorts with Sudanese tribesmen during an abortive effort to persuade the Sudan to unite with Egypt; of a kidney ailment; in Cairo.
Died. Kiyoshi Koizumi, 62, youngest son of famed author (and naturalized Japanese) Lafcadio Hearn, a moody artist who, despite his father's preoccupation with Japanese life and folklore, chose to paint in Western style; by his own hand (asphyxiation by gas); in Tokyo.
Died. Irving McNeil Ives, 66, two-term (1946-58) U.S. Senator from New York, a quiet upstate Republican who identified himself with labor's cause, fought in the Senate--often alongside then Senator John F. Kennedy--for clean unions, but was proudest of his success as a state assemblyman in pushing through New York's pioneering Fair Employment Practices Act prohibiting racial or religious discrimination in hiring; following stomach surgery; in Norwich, N.Y.
Died. Thomas Jean Hargrave, 70, board chairman of Eastman Kodak Co., a sturdy Nebraska-born lawyer who started off his career with the world's biggest photographic company by refusing autocratic Founder George Eastman's offer to make him an officer of the firm, but subsequently relented and rapidly rose to the top of the Kodak tripod, where he expanded the company's sales 81% in 20 years by adding chemicals and plastics to its output; after a long illness; in Rochester, N.Y.
Died. Hu Shih, 70, onetime (1938-42) Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. and Nationalist China's most venerable scholar-statesman; of a heart attack; near Taipei (see THE WORLD).
Died. David Julievich Dallin, 72, internationally respected expert on Russian affairs who chronicled the vagaries of Soviet policy with such authority that many of his files are still held under lock and key to protect the lives and reputations of his sources; after a long illness; in Manhattan. A Russian merchant's son who took his doctorate in economics at Heidelberg, Dallin was imprisoned under the czarist regime for revolutionary activity and under the Bolsheviks for his Social Democratic politics, after 18 years of exile in Germany and Poland finally reached the U.S., where he wrote ten books ranging from a definitive study of Soviet espionage to an analysis of forced labor in Russia so searing it provoked the late Andrei Vishinsky to proclaim in the U.N. that Dallin and Co-Author Boris Nicolaevsky were "complete idiots or gangsters."
Died. Richard Cresson Harlow, 72, mild-mannered master of razzle-dazzle football who once used eight different defenses in a single game and was said to have built the better mousetrap play, a coaching genius whose 32-year career carried him from Penn State to Harvard, where he capped a lifelong passion for ornithology by doubling as the university's curator of ooelogy, coaxed green players ("Dear boy, just do it my way") to a series of Crimson triumphs including the 13-6 defeat of Yale's great 1937 team that gave Harvard its first Big Three title in 22 years; of a heart attack; at Maryland's Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Died. Dr. George Nicholas Papanicolaou (pronounced Papa-nick-allow), 78, unassuming Greek-born medical scientist who from his study of the ovarian cycle in guinea pigs developed the "Pap" smear test which, by permitting early detection of uterine cancer, is credited with saving the lives and relieving the fears of thousands of U.S. women since it came into general use in 1943; of a heart attack; in Miami, where he headed a cancer research center recently renamed in his honor.
Died. Bungoro Yoshida, 92, Japan's pre-eminent practitioner of the five-century-old Bunrakuzu school of puppetry who in 1955 was proclaimed "an important, intangible cultural asset" by the Japanese government and retained his uncanny skill with his 3-ft. dolls even after age rendered him almost completely deaf and blind; of influenza; in Osaka.
Died. The Rev. Joseph Samuel Garcia, 102, reputedly the U.S.'s oldest Roman Catholic priest, a Spanish-American whose godfather was legendary Frontiersman Kit Carson; in Trinidad, Colo.
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