Married. Harry Lillis (Bing) Crosby, 53, granddad of U.S. crooners, multimillionaire golfer, horseman, father of four sons (24 to 19); and curvaceous Cinemactress Kathy Grant (real name: Olive Kathryn Grandstaff), 23, who first met him during a 1953 interview as a part-time columnist ("A Texas Gal in Hollywood") for Texas Oilman Glenn McCarthy's string of newspapers; he for the second time (his first wife, Musicomedienne Dixie Lee, died in 1952), she for the first; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Married. G. (for Gerard) David Schine, 30, onetime Army MP and sometime McCarthy sleuth, Schine hotel and movie chain scion; and Sweden's voluptuous Hillevi Rombin, 24, Miss Universe of 1955; in Manhattan.

Died. Christian Dior, 52, pink, plump world-fashion dictator, designer of the New Look (1947) and the Flat Look (1954), supporter pf the Sack Look (1957); of a heart attack while playing cards on vacation in Montecatini, Italy. At 30 he launched his career as assistant to such shapemakers as Robert Piguet and Lucien Lelong. After the war French Textile Mogul Marcel Boussac backed Dior, and a year later the designer had made fashion history, to remain fashion's tireless (13 hours a day) kingpin ever since, the much-publicized cause of the rise and fall of bosoms, the shrink and stretch of hips, the sight and flight of knees. Often creating while floating in his green marble bathtub, Dior thought much about good business too, opened his wholesaling Christian Dior-New York Inc. in 1948, organized a perfume company, designed cashmeres for Scotland's Hawick looms, bathing suits for Cole of California--in all, grossed some $15 million a year.

Died. Albert Anastasia (real name: Umberto Anastasio), 55, gangster; by five gangland bullets; in Manhattan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS).

Died. Abe Lyman, 59, onetime bandleader at Hollywood's famed Cocoanut Grove, organizer of the Californians, a group known for zip and zest in the '20s, waltz and schmaltz in the '30s; of cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Died. Dr. Gerty Theresa Cori, 61, Czech-born U.S. biochemist, professor of biological chemistry at Washington University's School of Medicine (since 1947), winner (with her biochemist husband Carl) of a Nobel Prize in medicine in 1947 for studies of the body's uses of starches and sugars; of complications of myelofibrosis, a disease of the bone marrow; in St. Louis.

Died. Herman Livingston Rogers, 66, debonair U.S. engineer, photographer and Social Registerite, longtime friend of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (he gave the bride away at their 1937 wedding); after a year's illness; at his villa in Cannes, France.

Died. Mary Gunning (Maguire) Colum, 70, "incorrigibly Irish" critic (From These Roots) and autobiographer (Life and the Dream), guest professor of comparative literature at Columbia University, whose seasoned literary criticism was always lucid and shrewd, often eloquent and powerful; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A student member of the Dublin circle of writers and poets who led the "Irish literary renaissance" before World War I, she married (in 1912) Padraic Colum, poet-dramatist founder of the Irish Review, settled with him in the U.S. Her last work-in-progress (with her husband): Our Friend James Joyce.

Died. Ann Daly Morrison, 72, wife of world-girdling Morrison-Knudsen (construction) Co.'s Chairman Harry Winford Morrison (TIME, May 3, 1954), known to many as the "First Lady of Construction" because since their marriage in 1914 she had traveled the world with him; of a circulatory ailment; in Boise, Idaho.

Died. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, 79, fiery Irish poet (Mirage Waters), playwright (The Glittering Gates) and novelist, a goateed gibe-jabber who characterized much modern verse as talk that "nonsense is truth, truth nonsense"; in Dublin. A towering (6 ft. 4 in.) athlete, Lord Dunsany fought in, the Boer War and World War I ("Our trenches were only six feet deep; I shall never fear publicity again").

Died. Kenneth Douglas McKellar, 88, longtime (36 years) hell-raising Democratic Senator from Tennessee, self-styled "Big Uncle" of the TVA; of old age; in Memphis. Relentless in his prejudices, vicious in his vendettas, he used his chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee to browbeat his colleagues into line; popular in his home state, he was a head-bowing yesman to Memphis' late Boss Edward H. Crump, was beaten for a seventh term in 1952.

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