Married. Tommy Sands, 23, gyrating rock-'n'-roll bawler, now at parade rest on a six-month Air Force stint; and Nancy Sinatra, 20, the Nancy with the Laughing Face in the 1944 hit song of Father Frank, who remarked shortly after the engagement, "It's good to have another singer in the family because I'm getting tired"; in Las Vegas, Nev.

Married. Jake La Motta, 39, onetime middleweight boxing champion, a bloated (190 lbs.) sometime cinema extra since his retirement in 1954, who recently admitted he had taken a dive in a 1947 fight with Billy Fox; and Sallye Carlton, 23, slender ex-Manhattan model; he for the third time; in Manhattan.

Died. Thomas Carey Hennings Jr., 57, Democratic Senator from Missouri since 1950; of abdominal cancer; in Washington. A courtly descendant of Southern slaveholders, Tom Hennings was a Senate Judiciary Committee champion of civil rights and liberties; recognized as one of the Senate's best legal minds, he saw his finest hour in leading the successful 1954 battle against the Bricker Amendment to limit the President's treaty-making powers.

Died. David Lewis Cohn, 63, Mississippi-born writer and social commentator, a onetime national advertising manager of Sears, Roebuck, who in 1940 spun a bestseller (The Good Old Days) out of three decades of the firm's catalogues, wrote feelingly of the Negro (God Shakes Creation), pessimistically about the chances for rapid integration (in his nostalgic Where I Was Born and Raised), admiringly of his political party (The Fabulous Democrats), and disparagingly of what he considered the infantile U.S. husband and his characterless wife (Love in America); of a heart attack; in Copenhagen.

Died. J. (for John) Cheever Cowdin, 71, investment banker and onetime eight-goal polo player, who left prep school at 18 "to pitch right into business" as a J. P. Morgan & Co. clerk, later became a financier and director of numerous U.S. aviation firms, served from 1936 to 1949 as board chairman of Universal Pictures Co., Inc.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.

Died. Sir Harold Gillies, 78, New Zealand-born pioneer in British plastic surgery, who mended 10,000 disfigured servicemen in World War I, ex-King Leopold of Belgium after a 1935 automobile accident and actresses and other women ("Certainly a beautiful woman is worth preserving"); of a stroke; in London.

Died. Arthur Cutts Willard, 82, president of the University of Illinois from 1934 to 1946, a mechanical engineer specializing in air conditioning, who perfected the ventilation system for the New York-New Jersey Holland Tunnel; of a heart attack; in Urbana, Ill.

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