Friday, Dec. 16, 1966

Married. Eugene Paul Getty, 34, third son of Oil Magnate Jean Paul Getty, who works for his father in Rome; and Talitha Pol, 26, Dutch-born beauty and aspiring actress, stepgranddaughter of British Painter Augustus John; he for the second time; in Rome.

Died. Mario Alicata, 48, editor of Italy's Communist daily L'Unita, a wartime partisan who joined the Reds in 1940, won a 1948 parliamentary seat (held ever since), took over L'Unita in 1962, a position in the top six-man party Secretariat in 1963, and by mixing sex and crime, even U.S. comic strips, with the usual Kremlin dialectic, maintained the paper's position as Italy's second-biggest daily, with a circulation of 300,000; of a heart attack; in Rome.

Died. James Paul Donahue, 51, grandson of Dime Store Magnate F. W. Woolworth and first cousin of Heiress Barbara Hutton, a lifelong bachelor who was the stereotype of the high-living, chorine-chasing playboy of the 1930s, then settled down to become a charity fund raiser and enough of an arts patron to donate $100,000 to the new Metropolitan Opera House; of visceral congestion; in Manhattan.

Died. Ward Morehouse, 67, drama critic and columnist, whose gently gossipy "Broadway After Dark" appeared for 40 years, first in the New York Sun, then in the World Telegram and Sun, and finally, since 1956, in the 21-paper Newhouse chain, a puckish bon vivant and raconteur who spent his winters holding forth at Manhattan's "21," his summers traveling to faraway places, all the while striving to put his own plays up in lights (Gentlemen of the Press), but with slight success; of pulmonary edema; in Manhattan.

Died. Alice Higinbotham Patterson, 87, first wife of New York Daily News Founder Joseph Medill Patterson and mother of the late Alicia Patterson Guggenheim (editor and publisher of Long Island's Newsday until her death in 1963), a Chicago patrician who did her best to lead her husband's life, hunting big game, flying with the Wright Brothers, finally divorced Captain Joe in 1938 and returned to a secluded life of gardening and charities; of congestive heart failure; in Chicago.

Died. Dr, Harry Frederick Ward, 93, longtime chairman of the ultraliberal American Civil Liberties Union, an eloquent Methodist clergyman who taught Christian Ethics at New York's Union Theological Seminary, while lambasting "profit-seeking capitalism" and heading the A.C.L.U. from 1920 until 1940, when he was forced .out because of his praise of Communism; of heart disease; in Palisades, N.J.

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