Married. Edsel Bryant Ford II, 25, only son of Ford Motor Co. Boss Henry Ford II and, after a five-year effort, the only college graduate (Babson) in four generations of Ford magnates; and Cynthia Layne Neskow, 23, daughter of retired Navy Captain Robert Neskow, who is Perry Como's dentist; both for the first time; in Tequesta, Fla.

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Died. Jacqueline Susann, 53, strong-willed author whose creative caldron boiled over with lucrative tales of sex-and drug-happy celebrity types; of cancer; in Manhattan. The daughter of a successful portrait painter, Susann took up writing after an undistinguished stage career. But in her extensive promotional tours for Valley of the Dolls (1966), The Love Machine (1969), Once Is Not Enough (1973) and her nonfiction opus, Every Night, Josephine!, Susann kept her theatrical instincts well honed; she and her husband for 29 years, TV Producer Irving Mansfield helped make sure that even if her well-merchandized works were scorned by critics, they would be read by a vast and curious public. A compulsive worker, Susann concocted her stories from a standard, easy-to-read recipe of soft-core deviant human appetites and lusts, glamorous settings like Broadway and Hollywood, and characters often resembling easily recognizable public figures. Dolls, with sales of 17 million copies, became probably the most purchased novel in history.

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Died. Jaya Chamarajendra Wadiyar Bahadur, 55, wealthy former Maharajah of Mysore and one of the last of India's great princes; of bronchial pneumonia; in Bangalore, India. Wadiyar ascended Mysore's throne in 1940. Though he ruled with a fabled fondness for splendor, pomp and courtly ritual, Wadiyar also did much to modernize his 125,000-sq.mi. realm. In 1947, when India began consolidating the 550 princely states left behind after British rule, Wadiyar was one of the first potentates to relinquish his sovereignty; from 1956 to 1964 he served as appointed Governor of Mysore, and from 1964 to 1967 as Governor of Madras, Mysore's neighbor to the east.

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Died. Cliff Arquette, 68, creative comedian whose squashed hat, spectacles and baggy pants identified him to TV viewers as the wisecracking bumpkin, Charley Weaver; of a heart attack; in Burbank, Calif. Arquette began carving the character of Charley during the heyday of radio, when he played the "Old-timer" on the Fibber McGee and Molly show. In 1957, Charley became a regular on the Jack Paar show, where he shared with the world letters written to him by his mother from mythical Mount Idy, Ohio.

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