Monday, Jul. 05, 1954

Married. Wanda Hendrix, 25, Hollywood starlet (Prince of Foxes); and James Langford Stack Jr., 38, wealthy brother of Cinemactor Robert Stack; both for the second time (her first: World War II hero-turned-actor Audie Murphy) ; in Los Angeles.

Married. Arlene Dahl, 29, red-haired cinema siren (Here Come the Girls) ; and Fernando Lamas, 37, Argentine-born Hollywood swashbuckler (Rose Marie); both for the second time (her first: movie Tarzan Lex Barker) ; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Divorced. By Vittorio De Sica, 53, Italian neorealist film director (The Bicycle Thief): Guida Reissone De Sica, 37; after 17 years of marriage, one daughter; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Died. Don Hollenbeck, 49, scholarly-voiced CBS radio and TV news commentator (Sunday News Special) ; by his own hand (gas); in Manhattan. Old Newsman Hollenbeck (the Omaha Bee-News, A.P.), was a World War II correspondent for NBC, won a special Polk memorial award for distinguished reporting as a commentator on CBS Views the News (1947-50), once got suspended for a month by ABC for remarking after a commercial (for Marlin Blades) : "The atrocity you have just heard is not a part of this program."

Died. Dr. Karl Taylor Compton, 66, onetime (1930-48) president of M.I.T. and head (1948-49) of the National Research Development Board of the Military Establishment; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see EDUCATION).

Died. Francis Casadesus, 83, French composer (La Chanson de Paris) and patriarch of a famous family of artists, after long illness ; near Paris.

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