Monday, Feb. 11, 1957

Married. Mike Todd, 49, (born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen), stem-winding, cigar-chewing Hollywood entrepreneur (Around the World in 80 Days); and Elizabeth Taylor, 24, brunette cinemactress (Giant); both for the third time, a week after her Mexican divorce from Cinemactor Michael (The Egyptian) Wilding; in Puerto Marques, Mexico.

Married. Rogers ("The Rajah") Hornsby, 60, terrible-tempered longtime (1915-26) St. Louis Cardinals' infielder. who holds modern big-league baseball's highest one-year batting average (.424, in 1924), has headed Chicago's Mayor Daley Youth Foundation since 1955; and Bookkeeper Marjorie Bernice Porter, 50; he for the third time, she for the second; in Chicago.

Died. Paulina Longworth Sturm, 31, granddaughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, much-publicized onetime Valentine Day baby of Speaker of the House (1925-31) Nicholas Longworth and T.R.'s daughter Alice Roosevelt Longworth; apparently after an overdose of sleeping pills, five years after the death of her husband. Author-Artist Alexander McCormick Sturm; in Washington. D.C.

Died. Helene Costello, 53. onetime brunette silent-film star (Good Time Charley, Lights of New York), sister of the late John Barrymore's blonde third wife, Cinemactress Dolores Costello, and daughter of oldtime Broadway and Hollywood idol Maurice Costello; of pneumonia, five days after she was committed to the Patton State Hospital for narcotics addiction (destitute and ailing, she had spent much of her time since 1938 in a tuberculosis sanatorium and an actors' home); in Norwalk, Calif.

Died. Harry ("The Lunchbox") Lundeberg, 55, big (6 ft. 2 1/2 in., 190 lbs.), barnacle-encrusted boss (since 1936) of the right-wing A.F.L. Sailors' Union of the Pacific, and president since 1955 of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Maritime Trades Department; of a heart attack; in Burlingame. Calif. Tattooed, Norwegian-born Harry Lundeberg never ducked a waterfront strike or a dock brawl, feuded for years with the West Coast longshoremen's left-wing Boss Harry Bridges (and once got a smashed jaw from a C.I.O.-swung baseball bat), had an old syndicalist's hatred of both Communists and capitalists ("Squeeze the shipowners . . . make them lose dough'').

Died. Friedrich von Paulus, 66, onetime Wehrmacht field marshal who led the ill-fated German Sixth Army at the decisive World War II Battle of Stalingrad, sold out to the Russians after his capture; of a stroke; in Dresden, East Germany.

Died. Carl Byoir, 68, onetime patent-medicineman (Nuxated Iron, Seedol, Kelpamalt), who in 1930 founded Carl Byoir & Associates, built the firm into one of the U.S.'s most successful publicity and propaganda mills; of cancer; in Manhattan. Drumbeater Byoir pounded out copy for all comers (among the early beneficiaries of his press-agentry: Trigger-happy Cuban Dictator Gerardo Machado, Nazi Germany's Tourist Information Office, President Roosevelt's Birthday Balls for infantile paralysis), in 1946 was fined $5,000 in a federal court for conspiring with the A. & P. chain-store firm to violate the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (he set up dummy trade and citizens' groups, helped keep in committee a New York State tax bill that would have cost A. & P. $2,000,000 a year). A Byoir maxim: "If the truth doesn't sound believable, don't tell it."

Died. Howard Brubaker, 74, puckish paragrapher (1925-50) for The New Yorker; of cancer; in Westport, Conn.

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