Monday, Apr. 08, 1974

Married. Henry Kissinger, 50, peripatetic U.S. Secretary of State; and Nancy Maginnes, 39, his steadiest woman friend (see THE NATION).

Married. Theodore Harold White, 58, veteran journalist and author of the four bestselling Making of the President volumes; and Beatrice Kevitt Hofstadter, 50, historian and widow of Richard Hofstadter, one of the greatest American history scholars of his generation; he for the second time, she for the third; in Manhattan.

Died. Dorothy Fields, 68, lyricist of I Can't Give You Anything But Love (1928), the Oscar-winning The Way You Look Tonight (1936) and hundreds of other popular songs; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. During her career of nearly a half-century, Fields collaborated with such composers as Jerome Kern and Harold Arlen. With her brother Herbert she wrote the books for the Broadway hits Annie Get Your Gun (1946) and Redhead (1959).

Died. Edward Uhler Condon, 72, the distinguished nuclear physicist who became a target of postwar Red-baiters; of heart disease; in Boulder, Colo. Condon's experiments in 1943 on the separation of U-235 were instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb. In 1945 he was named head of the National Bureau of Standards. Three years later, despite loyalty clearances by two Government agencies, he was branded "one of the weakest links in our atomic security" by the House Un-American Activities Committee. The specific charge--a flimsy one--was that Condon had associated socially with Eastern European diplomats who may or may not have been espionage agents. Condon resigned his post in 1951 to become research chief at Corning Glass Works, but quit in 1954 when he finally lost security clearance for Government projects. He got a degree of vindication in 1966 when he was appointed chief of an Air Force team investigating unidentified flying objects.

Died. Nathan Handwerker, 83, founder of Nathan's Famous, the Coney Island hot-dog emporium; following a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. Polish-born, Handwerker came to the U.S. in 1912 with $28 and much energy. He went to work in Manhattan as a delivery boy, moonlighting weekends at Feltman's, Coney Island birthplace of the hot dog. Encouraged by two singing waiters, Jimmy Durante and Eddie Cantor, Handwerker in 1916 took his savings of $300 and set up his own nickel hot-dog stand, slicing Feltman's price in half. The business grew into a multimillion-dollar fast-food chain serving up everything from frogs' legs to pizza.

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