Friday, May. 25, 1962
Married. Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon, 24, son of Spanish Pretender Don Juan; and Princess Sophie of the Hellenes, 23, eldest daughter of Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika; in consecutive Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox ceremonies; in Athens (see THE WORLD).
Redivorced. By Tobacco Magnate Richard Joshua Reynolds, 56: Muriel Marston, 48, his third wife, who appealed an earlier divorce and demanded a $6,000,000 settlement, but now loses even her previous $12,500-a-year alimony; on grounds of mental cruelty (he testified that she salted his salt-free food, blew smoke in his face while he was trying to quit smoking); in Darien, Ga.
Died. Franz Josef Kline, 51, a leader in Manhattan's stronghold of abstract expressionism, a rugged, academically adept Pennsylvanian who, after early attempts at barroom-scene realism ($5 apiece), found his forte in 1950 with the lunging black-and-white calligraphy (as much as $14,000 apiece) that won him permanent wall space in the U.S.'s great museums and some derision ("Chinese laundry tickets"), who explained his aggressive oils as "not the things f see but the feelings they arouse in me"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan.
Died. Admiral Arseni Grigorevich Golovko, 55, No. 2 man of the Soviet navy, an ebullient submarine buff whose northern fleet sank 700,000 tons of Nazi shipping in 15 months in the early stages of World War II, last year bragged that the Reds have more missile-armed atomic subs than the U.S.; after a long illness; in Moscow.
Died. Elzey Roberts Sr., 70, former publisher of the folksy, feisty St. Louis Star-Times, an aloof office tyro who inherited the Star a year after graduating from Princeton in 1915, bought the Times in 1932, and, after battling Joseph Pulitzer's bigger Post-Dispatch for three decades, unpredictably sold out to Pulitzer in 1951; of a heart ailment; in St. Louis.
Died. Northam Warren Sr., 83, pioneer U.S. cosmetics manufacturer, a Baptist preacher's son who first introduced liquid nail polish to the U.S. in 1916; of a heart ailment; in Stamford, Conn.
Died. Burton Egbert Stevenson, 89, sprightly anthologist and founder of the American Library in Paris, a onetime printer's devil who left nothing to chance in his meticulously compiled Home Books of quotations, verse, proverbs and maxims --a lifelong opus of more than 30,000 pages--marked by artful delving into literary sources from Greek preachments ("Abstain from beans"--Pythagoras) to English epigrams ("Tell it to the Marines"--Charles II to Mr. Samuel Pepys); after a long illness; in Chillicothe, Ohio.
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