Friday, Jun. 30, 1961

Married. Henry Robin Ian Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, 21, Harvard senior and heir of the tax-pinched 13th Duke of Bedford; and Henrietta Tiarks, 21, Britain's Debutante of the Year in 1957, who has since enjoyed well-publicized if fleeting flings with the present Aga Khan, the modeling profession and Briarcliff College (N.Y.); in London.

Married. Diana Cullom Davis, 22, dissident daughter of New York Investment Banker Shelby Davis, whom she briefly thwarted by declining to sign over her $3,800,000 trust fund to Princeton University, then satisfied in a still unpublished agreement; and John Means Spencer, 25, prep-school history teacher of whom her "mid-Victorian" father disapproved; in Scarborough, N.Y.

Married. Ivy Maude Baker Priest, 55, Treasurer of the U.S. in the Eisenhower Administration and longtime Republican National Committeewoman for Utah; and Sidney William Stevens, 58, Beverly Hills real estate dealer; she for the second time (her husband, Furniture Executive Roy F. Priest, died in 1959), he for the first; in Los Angeles.

Died. Eddie Gaedel, 36, big-league baseball's only midget (3 ft. 7 in.), hired in 1951 by promotion-prone Impresario Bill Veeck, then boss of the fanless, feckless St. Louis Browns; in Chicago. In his one time at bat (against the Detroit Tigers) during his brief playing career, Gaedel drew a walk. A few days later, after Veeck had threatened to use him as a pinch hitter every time the bases were loaded. League President Will Harridge canceled Gaedel's contract "in the best interest of baseball."

Died. Albert Deutsch, 55, muckraking medical journalist who campaigned against maltreatment of mental-institution inmates in The Shame of the States and of juvenile delinquents in Our Rejected Children, was temporarily cited for contempt of Congress during his successful 1945 battle for reform of VA hospitals; of a heart attack; in Horsham, England.

Died. Ex-Queen Marie of Yugoslavia, 61, auto-fancying, welfare-working daughter of Rumania's Queen Marie, great-granddaughter of both Britain's Queen Victoria and Russia's Czar Alexander II, and Yugoslavian monarch from her 1922 marriage to strongman King Alexander I until his 1934 assassination; following a long illness; in London, where she had lived for 20 years, the last 15 in Tito-imposed exile.

Died. George Harrison Bender, 64, plodding, good-natured, seven-term Republican Congressman from Ohio, best remembered as Robert A. Taft's floor manager and bellringer at the 1952 G.O.P. convention; of a heart attack; in his Chagrin Falls home outside of Cleveland.

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