Monday, Aug. 30, 1954

Married. Jill Faulkner, 21, only daughter of Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William (A Fable) Faulkner; and Paul Dilwyn Summers Jr., 25, Washington law student; in Oxford, Miss.

Divorced. By Marilyn Buferd, 29, undulate onetime (1946) Miss America, who scored a hit in Italian movies: Francesco Barbaro, 42, Italian actors' agent; after three years of marriage, one son; in Reno.

Divorced. By Susan Hayward (real name: Edythe Marrener), 34, red-haired cinemactress (Snows of Kilimanjaro): Jess Barker, 39, onetime bobby-sox hero (The Texan Meets Calamity Jane); after ten years of marriage, two children; in Hollywood. She won the right to keep her part (better than $300,000) of their community property; he got the Ford station wagon and the right to visit their twin sons one night a week and alternate weekends.

Died. Francis Mariotte (alias Frank Diamond), 61, Al ("Scarface") Capone's muscleboy during the racketeering heydays of the '205 and '303; of a shotgun blast (triggerman unknown) fired as he was opening his garage in Chicago's West Side. Swarthy, hotheaded Hoodlum Mariotte made a fortune as manager of Capone's far-flung network of brothels, since 1948 has been a Chicago contractor.

Died. Paul W. Shafer, 61, since 1937 a Republican Congressman from Michigan's traditionally conservative Third District; of a liver ailment; in Washington. A onetime newspaperman, Shafer learned his law from correspondence school, became known in the House for bluntly spoken opinion. He demanded a breakoff in diplomatic relations with Russia in 1949, demanded full U.S. recognition of Franco Spain the same year, befriended Korea's Syngman Rhee and warned, in 1947, of the dangers of a divided Korea. In 1952 he introduced a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Truman because he thought Truman had overstepped his bounds in seizing the steel mills.

Died. John Arthur Dewar. 63, British sportsman and whisky distiller (Dewar's White Label); of a heart ailment; in Montecatini, Italy. Heir to a $5,000,000 fortune and a famous thoroughbred stable at 38, "Lucky" Dewar hit the headlines in 1931 when his horse Cameronian won the first two legs (the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket, the Epsom Derby) on Britain's Triple Crown, missed pulling off a rare coup when Cameronian ran a dismal last in the St. Leger.

Died. Alcide de Gasperi, 73, one of the principal founders of Italy's Christian Democratic Party and its pre-eminent postwar Premier (1945-53); of a heart ailment; in Sella Val Sugana, Italy (see FOREIGN NEWS).

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