Friday, Aug. 24, 1962

Married. Jack Lemmon, 37, deft, Oscar-winning (Mister Roberts) film comedian; and Felicia Dines Farr, 29, trim, brown-eyed television actress; both for the second time; in Paris.

Divorced. Cary Grant, 58, Hollywood's ageless leading man; by Betsy Drake, 39, ash-blonde actress, who, according to a friend, "became much more fascinating to him" after their separation in 1958, has been his steadiest date for the last four years; on grounds of extreme mental cruelty; after 13 years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica.

Died. David Ford Bond, 57, leathery-voiced NBC newscaster who from 1929 to 1952 proved one of the most versatile voices in the business, announcing everything from soap operas (Just Plain Bill) to the World Series, a lifelong Republican who managed the campaign radio and TV arrangements for Thomas Dewey in 1948 and Dwight Eisenhower in 1952; of a heart attack; in St. Croix, Virgin Islands.

Died. Eugene Holman, 67, a ruddy-faced geologist whose candid charm and matchless knack for developing new oilfields took him to the top of the world's biggest oil company, Standard Oil Co.

(N.J.), first as president (from 1944 to 1954) and then as board chairman until his retirement two years ago; of endocarditis; in Manhattan.

Died. Mabel Dodge Sterne Luhan, 83, who won an eccentric's reputation as a patroness of the great, the good, and the utter frauds in arts and letters, drawing them all to her pre-World War I salons in Florence and New York, in turn becoming involved in three tormented marriages, countless love affairs, desperate attempts at psychoanalysis, and a dozen mystical philosophies; after a long illness; in Taos, N. Mex. Once described as a "species of headhunter" by Malcolm Cowley, she brought the likes of Lincoln Steffens, John Reed, Isadora Duncan, Gertrude Stein and Walter Lippmann together for discussions of Marx, Freud, birth control and anarchy, until tiring of city high life, she moved to Taos in 1917, proclaiming "Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty! ... I am here," married a Pueblo Indian, and settled down to write her Intimate Memories that outraged ("It makes me sick in my solar plexus," said D. H. Lawrence) her former friends.

Died. Henry Hobart Nichols Jr., 93.

American landscape painter, and longtime (1939-49) president of the National Academy of Design who guided the institution down a careful academic path, arguing that "the Academy is like a pendulum to a clock--it assures a rational, regular, orderly progress. It has no room for experimentalists. The Academy can afford to wait"; in Mannhattan.

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