Married. Robert Baumle Meyner, 48, Democratic governor of New Jersey since 1954; and Helen Day (Danie) Stevenson, 28, brunette third cousin (by marriage, on the maternal side; the name Stevenson is a coincidence) of Adlai Stevenson, daughter of William Stevenson, president of Oberlin College; in Oberlin, Ohio.

Died. Charles Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, 59, onetime (1940-49) isolationist Republican Senator from Illinois, who moderated his isolationism after Eisenhower's 1952 victory; of a heart ailment; in Chicago.

Died. Max Ausnit, 69, onetime Rumanian steel and munitions magnate who fled to the U.S. in 1946, later (1948) was charged by the Communist-led Rumanian government with plotting revolution with American and British agents (1948), sentenced him to life imprisonment in absentia (his second such trial; at the first, in 1944, the Nazi puppet government gave him a death sentence after he escaped to Egypt in a stolen bomber); of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. William Philip Simms, 75, longtime (1920-50) sartorially elegant foreign editor for Scripps-Howard newspapers, who began patrolling Europe for the United Press in 1909, frequently while wearing a Homburg, carrying gloves and a stick, campaigned through both world wars and the years between them (too old at 62 to get credentials to cover the Normandy invasion, he bummed his way across the Channel, covered it anyway); in his sleep; in Washington, D.C.

Died. A. E. (for Alfred Edgar) Coppard, 79, who gave up clerking at 41 to concentrate on writing, became known as the author of vivid, atmospheric short stories (The Higgler, Adam and Eve .and Pinch Me); of a stroke; in London. Novelist Ford Madox Ford's evaluation: "Almost the first English prose writer to get into English prose the peculiar quality of English lyric poetry."

Died. Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George ("Algie") Cambridge, Earl of Athlone and Viscount Trematon, 82, onetime governor-general of South Africa (1923-30) and Canada (1940-46), last surviving brother of the late Queen Mary and great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth II; in Kensington Palace, London. An erect, mustached ex-cavalryman (India, the Boer War, World War I) who looked and acted like the prototype of Britain's foxhunting, elephant-shooting old regimentals, the Earl of Athlone served as aide-de-camp to King George V, King Edward VIII, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, officiated at countless cornerstone-layings and ribbon-cuttings, became known as the royal family's most affable handyman.

Died. Albert. Johnson, 87, longtime (1913-33) Republican Representative from Washington who co-authored (with the late Senator David Aiken Reed) the U.S.'s restrictive 1924 immigration law (superseded in 1952 by the McCarran-Walter Act), which limited all immigration to 2% per year of the foreign-born from each country in the U.S.'s 1890 population, set up a quota system (effective in 1930) to stem the inflow from Southern Europe and Asia; of a heart attack; in American Lake. Wash.

Died. Arturo Toscanini, 89; after a stroke; in New York City (see Music).

Died. Maria Pavlovna Chekhova, 93, only sister of Russian Playwright Anton Chekhov, who idolized her brother, never married, kept house for him much of the time, after his death in 1904 made a museum of his villa at Yalta; in Yalta.

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