Married. Princess Atsuko, 21, third daughter of Japan's Emperor Hirohito, and Takamasa Ikeda, 25, well-to-do dairy farmer and son of the former Marquis Ikeda, who gave up his title after World War II; in Tokyo. The Princess' marriage to a commoner stripped her of an annual 650,000 yen ($1,800) royal allowance. The Emperor was in bed with a cold but the Empress, with 30 members of the royal family, attended the ancient and austere Shinto ceremony.

Married. Dr. Ewan Forbes-Sempill, 40, the former Elizabeth Forbes-Sempill, daughter of the late Lord Sempill, whose name and sex were officially changed (TIME, Sept. 22) after a gradual, nonsurgical course of treatment; and his housekeeper Isabella Mitchell, 37; both for the first time; in Alford, Scotland.

Died. Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly, sixtyish, self-styled "Luckiest Fool in the World," who enjoyed a brief celebrity in the frivolous '20s by sitting for days on a 13-inch disk atop flagpoles (his record: 49 days and one hour on a pole on Atlantic City's Steel Pier in 1930); of a heart attack, while walking on a sidewalk with a relief check in his pocket and a scrapbook of old press clippings under his arm; in Manhattan.

Died. The Most Rev. Gabriel M. Reyes, 60, archbishop of Manila, first (1934) and only Filipino archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church; after long illness; in Washington, B.C.

Died. Dr. Louis Tompkins Wright, 61, surgeon president of Harlem Hospital's medical board, and board chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Georgia-born Dr. Wright was the second Negro (first: Chicago's Dr. Daniel H. Williams) to become a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, in 1948 headed a medical team that was the first to use aureomycin on humans.

Died. General Arturo Rawson, 67, onetime provisional (for 48 hours in 1943) President of Argentina, leader (with General Pedro Ramirez) of the 1943 military revolt against fascist-minded President Ramon Castillo which unexpectedly started Juan Peron on his rise to power, part organizer of the abortive 1945 anti-Peron revolt; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires.

Died. Frank Gerber, 79, cofouhder (with his son Dan) and former president of Gerber Products Co., baby foods; in Fremont, Mich. Father & son started the new industry (strained peas, prunes, carrots, spinach) in 1928 to provide an easier way of preparing vegetables for Gerber's grandchildren. They placed small ads in national magazines (six cans for $1), grossed $22,000 the first year, expect to gross about $54 million this year.

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