Monday, Feb. 15, 1960

Born. To Diana Dors, 28, bosomy blonde British cinemactress, and Second Husband Dickie Dawson, British comedian: their first child, a son; in London. Name: Mark Richard. Weight: 7 Ibs.

Married. Farrell Faubus, 20, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus' only child, a junior at the University of Arkansas; and Martha Jo Culwell, 19, a sophomore at the same school; in Huntsville, Ark. Best man: Orval Faubus.

Married. Lindsay Crosby, 22, youngest of Bing's four boys; and Barbara Frederickson, 22, Las Vegas show girl; in Los Angeles.

Died. Zora Neale Hurstoh, 57, Florida-born Negro author who explored the world of Negro folklore and magic in remote parts of the South and the West Indies, celebrated the big trials and small triumphs of the Southern Negro in a series of novels (Jonah's Gourd Vine, Seraph on the Suwanee) without succumbing to bitterness; in Fort Pierce, Fla.

Died. Admiral Pierre Barjot, 60, naval deputy to NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad, a longtime De Gaulle supporter and World War II Free French leader who figured in the behind-the-scenes maneuvers to compel French North Africa to enter the war on the side of the Allies, later (1956) commanded the French naval forces in the ill-starred attack on Suez; of cancer; in Paris.

Died. Felix Adler, 62, Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus clown who kept U.S. children laughing for 50 years as he waddled about with his bulbous, red-lighted nose, played the Big Bad Wolf while pigs he trained danced on their hind legs around him; after surgery; in Manhattan.

Died. Abraham ("Al") Tisch, 63, onetime clothing manufacturer who in 1946 bought the dilapidated Laurel-in-the-Pines Hotel in Lakewood, N.J., turned it into such a bustling enterprise with the help of Sons Laurence and Robert that the family went on to build up the largest chain of resort hotels (including Miami Beach's Americana, Atlantic City's Traymore) in the U.S.; in Houston.

Died. Helen Topping Miller, 75, popular, prolific novelist of the Old South (After the Glory and 75 others) and short-story writer; in Morristown, Tenn.

Died. Captain George E. Bridgett, 97, British-born seadog who ran away to sea at 14, retired as a tanker skipper for Standard Oil in 1928, but at the outbreak of World War II faked his age, passed his physical and won command of the Liberty Ship Pierre S. Du Pont, celebrated his 80th birthday under heavy bombardment at Malta; in San Francisco.

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