Monday, Jun. 24, 1957

Married. William Donner Roosevelt, 24, grandson of F.D.R., son of Elliott Roosevelt and his first wife; and Karyl Kyle, 23; he for the first time, she for the second; in Denver.

Married. Basil O'Connor, 65, president (since its founding in 1938) of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, onetime law partner of Franklin D. Roosevelt; and Hazel Royall, 43, chief of functional physical therapy at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, of which O'Connor is also president; both for the second time; in Manhattan.

Married. Archibald Henderson, 80, jolly, early-days interpreter of the Einstein theory, as well as official biographer of the late George Bernard Shaw ("Henderson collected me"), drama critic, historian of the South, friend of Mark Twain and longtime (retired: 1948) mathematics professor at the University of North Carolina; and Lucile Kelling, 62. dean of U.N.C.'s School of Library Science, short-story writer, poet, classicist and fellow Shavian; he for the second.time, she for the first; in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Died. James Francis (Jimmy) Dorsey, 53, saxophonist-bandleader, brother of Trombonist Tommy (who accidentally choked to death in his sleep last November); of lung cancer; in Manhattan. The Dorsey brothers played in the '20s, developed a soothing, sentimental style of swing that softened the Dixie beat, met swift success (between them they sold more than 110 million records); formed (1934) their own band but broke up in a tiff over tempo. Jimmy rejoined Tommy in 1953, was hard-hit by his brother's death.

Died. Peggy Hopkins Joyce (maiden name: Margaret Upton), 64, blonde, blue-eyed, oldtime showgirl, six times married, 50 times engaged (her boast), who wed and fled three U.S. millionaires in rapid succession but collected and gloried in Rolls-Royces, furs, jewels, champagne and swimming pools until she came to symbolize the high-living, big-spending '20s; of throat cancer; in Manhattan.

Died. Arthur T. Vanderbilt, 68, famed lawyers' lawyer and constitutionalist chief justice (since 1948) of the New Jersey Supreme Court (who simplified and reformed the state court structure and procedures), onetime (1938) president of the American Bar Association, longtime (34 years) professor and dean'(1943-48) at New York University's Law School; of a rupture of the aorta; in Summit, N.J.

Died. David Morton. 71, professor of English at Amherst College (1926-45), author (The Renaissance of Irish Poetry, 1929) and poet (Ships in Harbour); after long illness; in Madison. N.J.

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