Monday, Apr. 18, 1977

Expecting. Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise of England, 26, and Captain Mark Phillips, 28; their first child; in November. The baby, the first grandchild for Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, will be fifth in succession to the British throne. . Married. David Cassidy, 26, teeny-bopper heartthrob who sang his way to rock stardom on TV's The Partridge Family in 1970; and Kay Lenz, 24, who played the widow Kate on ABC'S Rich Man, Poor Man series; in Las Vegas. .

Divorced. Nicol Williamson, 40, stormy star of the British stage who played Sherlock Holmes in Hollywood's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution; by Jill Townsend, 32, an American-born actress; after six years of marriage; one son; in London. .

Died. Alexander L. Guterma, 62, financial wizard who swindled investors out of millions of dollars in the 1950s; along with five members of his family in the crash of his private plane as it approached New York City's La Guardia Airport. An entrepreneur in the Philippines during World War II, he arrived in the U.S. in 1950 and quickly gained control of more than a dozen companies, including a brokerage firm, electronics and real estate interests, and the Mutual Broadcasting System. Guterma was convicted in 1960 of fraud, conspiracy and failing to register as an agent of Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, who gave him $750,000 to churn out propaganda in the U.S. After 3 1/2 years in jail, he amassed a second empire in cosmetics, real estate and a Kentucky coal company. .

Died. Carlos Prio Socarras, 74, the last constitutionally elected President of Cuba (1948-52); of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Miami Beach. Prio Socarras, who pridefully described himself as "a cordial President," was overthrown by General Fulgencio Batista and charged with corruption. To oust Batista, Prio Socarras helped finance Fidel Castro's 1959 takeover, but later broke with him, attacking his "Communist tyranny." A leader of Miami's Cuban exiles, he met with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in February to voice opposition to U.S. detente with Cuba. . Died. Edward J. Barrett, 77, powerful Illinois Democratic factotum for four decades until his 1973 federal conviction for bribery, mail fraud and tax evasion; in Chicago. Barrett, who served as Illinois State Treasurer and Secretary of State in the '30s and '40s, became Cook County clerk in 1955, succeeding his longtime crony, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley.

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