Friday, Mar. 22, 1968

Married. Maureen O'Hara, 47, Dublin's durable gift to Hollywood (50 films so far); and Charles Blair, 58, Pan American pilot who met Maureen in Ireland 21 years ago and earned his own fame in 1951 as the first man to solo over the North Pole in a single-engined plane; both for the third time; in St. Thomas, V.I.

Died. Major General Sir Robert Laycock, 60, debonair, dashing leader of England's World War II commandos; of a heart attack; in Wiseton, England. The storybook image of a daring British commando, the tall, blue-eyed Laycock led his raiders through Crete, Syria, Sicily and Salerno, executed his boldest raid in 1941, when he landed on the Libyan coast, tried to kidnap Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, lost 48 of his 50-man party, and escaped across the desert, living for six weeks on little else but berries and rain water.

Died. Khuang Aphaiwong, 66, founder of Thailand's Democrat Party and three times Premier; of cancer; in Bangkok. After joining with Pridi Phano-myong in the 1932 coup d'etat that established a constitutional monarchy, Khuang championed economic reforms and, as Premier during the turbulent years from 1944 to 1948, urged pro-Western policies before he himself was overthrown by a military coup.

Died. Jack Fulbright, 69, older brother of the Arkansas Senator, a Harvard ('24) football hero who sold steel in Missouri and lumber in Arkansas before retiring to Tennessee in 1960; of a heart attack; in Memphis.

Died. Harold L. Bache, 73, chairman and chief executive officer since 1945 of Bache & Co., Inc., world's second largest brokerage house (after Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith); of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. Bache started out in 1914 running trade messages for $1 a day, rose through the cotton and wheat pits to the top of his granduncle's 89-year-old brokerage house, which he expanded from 48 to 124 branches and turned into the top dealer in both commodities and mutual funds.

Died. Gus Van, 80, oldtime vaudeville headliner who, with the late Joe Schenck, formed the singing team of Van and Schenck, which earned $8,000 a week in the '20s; of injuries suffered when struck by an automobile; in Miami Beach. Billed as "the Tiffany Songsters," Van and Schenck harmonized such tuneful memories as My Melancholy Baby and All She'd Say Was "Umh Hum" in a top-hat-and-cane act that made them a mainstay of the Ziegfeld Follies before it all ended when Schenck died in 1930.

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