Friday, Mar. 29, 1968

Married. Jonnie Miller, 23, adopted daughter of the swing era's top bandleader, the late Glenn Miller; and Frederick Swendson, 23, student at the University of Minnesota; in Pasadena, Calit.

Divorced. Gary Grant, 64, suave, handsome, debonair, altogether Hollywood's perfect gentleman; by Dyan Cannon, 30, sometime actress (Broadway's Ninety-Day Mistress); after 32 months of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles. Dyan and others testified that Gary had been "an apostle of LSD" for ten years; that he was subject to yelling and screaming fits," spanked her and hit her and promised to break her "like a pony," after which he would create "the wife I want" through the miracle of LSD. Grant denied all through his lawyers (he is in New York, recovering from auto-accident injuries), but Dyan got the nod from the judge, and $24,000 yearly in child support plus a $57,,000 settlement.

Died. Charles Chaplin Jr., 42, eldest son of the comedian; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Bedeviled by his name ("Sometimes I wish I was called James"), Charles Jr, never rose above bit parts in such dreadfuls as High School Confidential and Teacher Was a Sex Pot. His one claim to recognition was a 1960 biography, My Father, Charlie Chaplin, a sometimes fatuous but often illuminating account of life with daddy.

Died Edwin O'Connor, 49, author of 1956's bestselling The Last Hurrah, a fictionalized account of the life of Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley; of a heart attack; in Boston. "A pale carbon copy," hooted Curley when the book came out. Carbon maybe, but pale never, as critics cheered ( nor's fascinating account of the last campaign of the boss of a big-city machine. The book sold over 125,000 copies the first year, went on to become a hit movie, and made O'Connor a fortune He wrote several other books (including Edge of Sadness, All in the Family) and a play (I Was Dancing) about the Irish in America, but none could match his first success.

Died Harry Kurnitz, 60, one of Hollywood's most durable and successful screen writers; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Bon vivant, ladies' man, globetrotter, Kurnitz was never one to bite the hand that paid him. "I write like Pavlov's dog," he said. "I just start typing automatically in the morning. And in 30 years, he cranked out more than 40 scripts, some bad but quite a few good, among them 1944's See Here, Private Hargrove, 1957's Witness for the Prosecution and 1966's How to Steal a Million. Broadway lured him, too and his Once More, with Feeling was a hit of the 1958-1959 season.

Died. Dr. Samuel Howard Miller, 68 Baptist minister and dean of Harvard Divinity School since 1959; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Miller believed that "religion which is interested only in itself is worse than vanity; it is essentially incestuous, and throughout a distinguished career worked unceasingly to bring Christianity in tune with the secular realities of the times. A fervent ecumenicist, he called for an end to divisive tensions between Christians and Jews, between Roman Catholics and Protestants. Christianity, he argued, could only survive by bringing "new and deeper satisfaction to the human spirit."

Died. Walter Millis, 69, military journalist and historian; husband of Fashion Columnist Eugenia Sheppard; ot cancer; in Manhattan. During 30 years on the now defunct New York Herald Tribune, Millis established a reputation as one of the country's most lucid military commentators. His books ranged from The Martial Spirit (1931), which examined the origins of the Spanish-American War, to This Is Pearl! (1947), a study of U.S. unpreparedness against the Japanese attack. Recently, though, his articles turned more to politics than the conduct of arms, criticizing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam and voicing opposition to nuclear weapons as instruments of national policy.

Died. Gerhart Eisler, 71, Communist agent and propagandist, who in 1949 escaped from U.S. authorities and set up shop in East Germany; of a heart attack; in the Republic of Armenia, USSR Emigrating to the U.S. from France during World War II, Eisler became the classic agent, a bespectacled little man living quietly in Queens, N.Y., and even serving as a World War II civil defense warden. Then, in 1946,1nformer Louis Budenz fingered him as one of Moscow's top agents--organizer of Red undergrounds in Spain, France, Switzerland and now the U.S., where he bossed the wartime Communist apparatus. Arrested on a conspiracy charge, Eisler jumped bail, got away aboard a Polish liner to Europe, where he eventually became head of East German radio and TV.

Died Dr. Charles E. Fuller, 80, Baptist minister turned radio evangelist whose sermons reached 10 million weekly in the 1940s; of heart disease; in Pasadena, Calif. "If you are not in Jesus Christ, you are a child ot Sa-tan!" cried Fuller on his Old-Fashioned Revival Hour, and at the peak of his career the message was beamed out every Sunday on 900 stations across the U.S. Though his popularity faded in recent years, he could still be heard on some 500 stations, many of which will continue to broadcast his sermons on tape.

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