Friday, Apr. 20, 1962

Married. Habib Bourguiba, 58, mercurial President of Tunisia; and Ouassila Ben Ammar, 49, plump onetime street fighter for Tunisia's 1956-granted independence and part of the presidential entourage ever since; both for the second time; in the House of Happiness, the President's palace in La Marsa, Tunisia. Bourguiba thoughtfully awarded his nation's top honor, the Order of Independence, to his first wife, French-born Mathilde Laurin, 72, after he divorced her last year.

Died. Harold Albert Lamb, 69, gifted popularizer of history who chronicled the Oriental despots from Genghis Khan to Suleiman the Magnificent, a dedicated student of the Middle East who could read Turkish, Arabic and Persian and during World War II was a top OSS agent in the area, yet could also expand the three known facts about the life of Omar Khayyam into 316 pages of entertaining reading and turn out movie scripts (The Golden Horde, The Crusades) that delighted the heart of Cecil B. DeMille; of stomach cancer; in the Mayo Brothers' Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Died. Lieut. Gen. Manton Sprague Eddy, 69, U.S.A. (ret.), squinty, steadfast foot soldier who won a World War I commission as a second lieutenant despite having been expelled from two high schools, in World War II led the fast-moving 9th Division through North Africa and Sicily, subsequently took the XIIth Corps across the Rhine and as Commander, U.S. Army in Europe, rebuilt the occupation army in Germany into a mainstay of NATO's shield; of a heart attack; at Fort Benning, Ga.

Died. Michael Curtiz (pronounced Curtease), 73, Oscar-winning (for Casablanca) Hollywood director, a leathery Hungarian import who, in a 35-year career spent largely with Warner Bros., directed 80-odd films ranging from blood and thunder (The Charge of the Light Brigade) to canned Americana (White Christmas), was famed for his malapropisms ("Make a love nest") and his gall (he cut the sermon to the birds out of Francis of Assist as "too corny"), but stubbornly insisted "I put all the art into my pictures I think the audience can stand"; of cancer; in Hollywood.

Died. Culbert Levy Olson, 85, ex-Governor of California and the first Democrat to hold the post since 1894, a wealthy Utah-born New Dealer whose first official act after his election in 1938 was to pardon Labor Organizer Tom Mooney from life imprisonment for the bombing of a 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day parade, and who was beaten in a re-election bid by his own Republican attorney general. Earl Warren; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles.

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