Married. Richard G. Hatcher, 43, mayor of Gary, Ind., and one of the first blacks to be elected mayor of a large city; and Gary Elementary School Teacher Ruthellyn Rowles, 32; he for the first time, she for the second; in Boonville, Mo., the bride's home town.

Died. Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell, 71, author, newspaper columnist and Independent, then left-wing Laborite Member of Parliament (1942-75); of an apparent heart attack; in London. An Oxonian, Driberg first became known as "William Hickey," a gossip columnist for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (1933-43). As an M.P. he was an outspoken critic of the "mammon imperialists" of Washington and Wall Street. The London Times, in an unusual obituary, noted that Driberg was a homosexual, a fact that he had neither publicized nor sought to hide.

Died. Robert L. May, 71, Midwest adman who sat down in 1939 to write Christmas promotion for Montgomery Ward & Co. and came up with the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, of cancer; in Evanston, 111. After Ward handed over the Rudolph copyright to May in 1947, he received royalties on more than 100 Red-Nosed products and on the hit song written in 1949.

Died. Sir Winston Scott, 76, kind-hearted doctor who gave free medical care to the poor in Barbados and became the first native-born Governor-General of that country in 1967, six months after it gained independence; of an apparent heart attack; in Bridgetown, Barbados.

Died. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 91, a founder of the German expressionist school of painting; in West Berlin. In 1905 Schmidt-Rottluff joined with several other rebelling art students to form a group known as die Brticke (the Bridge) and to search for an art form and sensibility to replace impressionism. Their solution: primary colors laid side by side on the canvas in powerful forms. In 1937 the Nazis termed Schmidt-Rottluffs work "degenerate" and in 1938 burned some of his paintings and later forbade him to paint. In 1967 the city of West Berlin opened a museum built to house the works he had donated three years earlier.

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