Monday, Mar. 11, 1957
Married. Linda (Monetta Eloyse) Darnell, 33, Texas-born brunette cinemactress (Forever Amber) ; and American Airlines Pilot Merle Roy (Robbie) Robertson, 39; she for the third time, he for the first; in Riverside, Calif.
Married. James Jones, 35, determinedly tough bestselling novelist (From Here to Eternity); and Gloria Patricia Mosolino, 29; in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Divorced. Harold George (Harry) Belafonte Jr., 30, Harlem-born, Jamaica-schooled cinemactor (Carmen Jones) and jukebox favorite; by Psychologist Frances Marguerite Byrd Belafonte, 28; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Las Vegas, Nev.
Divorced. Judy Holliday (real name: Judith Tuvim), 37, bouncy blonde Oscar-winning cinemactress (Born Yesterday), currently wowing Broadway in the musi-comedy Bells Are Ringing; from Clarinetist David Oppenheim, 35; after nine years of marriage, 2 1/2 of separation, one child; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Died. George ("Bugs") Moran, 64, softspoken, hard-eyed Chicago gang leader who got rich on prohibition beer but lost out in mob warfare to Al Capone, never regained his power after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929); in Federal prison (where he was serving two concurrent five-year terms for bank robbery) at Leavenworth, Kans.
Died. B. P. (for Benjamin Percival) Schulberg, 65, oldtime film producer (Wings), first Academy Award winner, sometime Paramount Pictures executive credited with introducing Marlene Dietrich and Shirley Temple, father of Novelist Budd (What Makes Sammy Run) Schulberg; of a stroke; at his home on Key Biscayne, Fla.
Died. Harold E. (for Elstner) Talbott, 68, energetic, quick-tempered, self-styled (in Who's Who) capitalist and aviation-industry executive, who resigned after 2 1/2 years as Secretary of the Air Force in August 1955 after telling the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that he had been "mistaken" in writing possible clients of his private firm (Paul B. Mulligan & Co. of New York) on Air Force stationery; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palm Beach, Fla. Talbott counseled a farewell Pentagon luncheon: "Do right and don't write."
Died. Eugene Edward (Gene) Buck, 71, longtime (1924-42) chief of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), composer of some 500 songs (Hello, Frisco!, Tulip Time) and talent scout for Flo Ziegfeld (he boomed such unknowns as Ed Wynn, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers); of an aneurysm of the aorta; in Manhasset, L.I.
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