Monday, May. 04, 1959

Married. Gene Krupa, aging (50) jazz drummer, famed for his wide, colorful range of techniques and his difficulties with the law over marijuana matters; and Patricia Bowler, 25, a secretary from Springfield, Mass.; he for the second time (the first Mrs. Krupa died in 1955), she for the first; in Yonkers, N.Y.

Divorced. Sammy Davis Jr., 33, supercharged Negro entertainer, cinemactor (Anna Lucasta) and Broadway star (Mr. Wonderful); by Loray White Davis, 24. nightclub singer; after 15 months of marriage, no children; in Las Vegas.

Divorce Revealed. Rod Steiger, 34, method actor, TV's original Marty, the cinema's current Al Capone and the malevolent bandit in Broadway's Rashomon; by Sally Gracie, 30, actress; after six years of marriage (mostly in separation), no children; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in January.

Divorced. Marlon Brando, 35, whose cinemumbling has earned him so much money that he agreed to make various payments--alimony, child support, medical expenses--totaling $685,000 in the next ten years; by Cinemactress Anna Kashfi, 24, once Joanie O'Callaghan of Darjeeling, India; after 18 months of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif.

Divorced. Anthony Nutting, 39, onetime (1954-56) British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, who resigned protesting the British-French action at Suez; by Gillian Nutting, 40, who pleaded desertion; after 18 years of marriage, three children; by decree nisi, in London.

Died. Don Black, 41, Cleveland pitcher who overcame a career-crippling drinking problem by joining Alcoholics Anonymous, within months (1947 season) threw a no-hitter against the Athletics, next year twisted his neck while batting and suffered a hemorrhage that ended his playing days; of lung cancer; in Akron.

Died. Egon Reinert, 50, Prime Minister of the Saar, a leader in Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union Party, who became the Saarland's Prime Minister in June 1957, five months after the French relinquished the control they had exercised over the region since the end of World War II; of auto-crash injuries; in Saarbruecken, West Germany.

Died. Howard Wilcox Haggard, 67, longtime (1938-56) director of Yale's Laboratory of Applied Physiology, a founder of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies, who passed dispassionate judgment on both the teetotaler and the lush (Alcohol is "the safest of all sedatives"; "The drunk should be made something not funny"), popularized medical history with Devils, Drugs and Doctors and Mystery, Magic and Medicine; of congestive heart failure; in Fort Lauderdale. Fla.

Died. Edward Johnson, 77, Canadian tenor who became general manager of the Metropolitan Opera (1935-50), shepherded the Met successfully out of the Depression and through World War II, greatly improved its financial position, presented several Met firsts (e.g., Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio), and brought down from the attic such locally forgotten masterworks as The Marriage of Figaro, Boris Godunov, Otello and Falstaff, was particularly proud of his reputation as the man who parted the golden curtain for young American singers (e.g., Eleanor Steber, Helen Traubel, Blanche Thebom, Rise Stevens, Leonard Warren, Dorothy Kirsten, Richard Tucker, Jan Peerce and Robert Merrill); in Guelph, Ont. Asked when he had begun to sing, easygoing Tenor Johnson once said: "I started as a soprano, so I suppose my answer should be ever since I was a little girl." He made his debut as Edoardo di Giovanni in Padua in 1912, sang two years later at Milan's La Scala in the first Italian Parsifal. An American citizen since 1922, he returned to Canada in retirement, became board chairman of the University of Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music.

Died. Edith, Dowager Marchioness of Londonderry, 79, hostess famed for her sparkling. 2,000-guest receptions on the eve of Parliament openings, first woman to be named Dame Commander of the British Empire, who--on her honeymoon in 1899--had her legs tattooed in pink and blue, featuring on the left a snake, a star and a heraldic crest, on the right a lion rampant against the Londonderry coat of arms; in Newtonards, Northern Ireland. Two years ago, when her grandson, the present marquess, grumbled in print that Queen Elizabeth II has an easy life, the marchioness disagreed strongly with the Londonderry heir. "The Queen," she retorted, "works a jolly sight harder than you do."

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