MILESTONES

Married. Cecile Dionne, 23, one of French Canada's much-publicized quints, second to wed (first: Annette--last month); and TV Technician Philippe Langlois, 26; in Corbeil, Ont.

Died. Francis Henry Taylor, 54, bulky director of the Worcester Art Museum, longtime (1940-55) policy-toppling director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art (TIME, Dec. 29, 1952), author on art and archaeology (The Taste of Angels, Fifty Centuries of Art); of complications after a kidney operation; in Worcester, Mass. Harddriving, high-strung ("I don't relax, I just collapse") nail-biting Scholar-Showman Taylor retired from the Met because his self-imposed burdens "so taxed my nervous and physical energies," but in his 15-year reign, he doubled the museum's endowment (more than $62 million in 1954), doubled its annual attendance (over 2,500,000) and tripled its membership (12,263).

Died. George T. Bye, 70, topflight literary agent who pushed the writing careers of such notables as Rebecca West, Deems Taylor, Alexander Woollcott and Charles A. Lindbergh, encouraged his close friend Eleanor Roosevelt to start her syndicated column "My Day"; after long illness; in New Canaan, Conn.

Died. Augustine Bernard Kelley, 74, longtime (since 1941) Democratic Representative from Pennsylvania, author of federal-aid-to-education bills, U.S. delegate to four International Labor Organization conferences (1946, '47, '50, '51); of cancer; in Bethesda, Md.

Died. Frederick Sullens, 80, fire-eating editor (for the last 52 years) of Mississippi's Jackson Daily News, bushy-browed old-style columnist (The Low Down on the Higher Ups) and prying reporter ("I may be a lousy editor, but I can still do a damn good job of reporting"), who was always ready to back up his razor-edged wit and deadly personal insult with well-worn fists; of cancer; in Jackson, Miss. Though he was a lifelong foe of Negro-baiters ("hysterical rabble-rousers and spouting demagogues"), and scathingly attacked the late Senator Theodore Bilbo, Representative John Rankin and Governor Paul Johnson, Sullens was himself a confirmed opponent of desegregation, waged a bitter campaign against the 1954 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Died. Elizabeth ("Betty") Faulkner Henderson, 82, uninhibited cafe-society showoff ("I'll relax and behave myself for three days after my wake"), thrice-married widow (her last: Oklahoma Oilman Frank C. Henderson) who once (1947) hoisted a thin-shanked, 72-year-old leg onto a table at the Metropolitan Opera House bar ("What's Marlene Dietrich got that I ain't got?") and gloated in her success as every tabloid spread the exhibit across the nation (East German propaganda displayed it as a sign of "Life in America" degeneracy); of the infirmities of age; in Manhattan.

Died. Francis Burton Harrison, 83, onetime (1903-05, 1907-13) U.S. Representative from New York, onetime (1913-21) Governor General of the Philippines, who strongly advocated a Philippine republic, was the first American to become a naturalized Filipino (1936), became known as the "grandfather" of Philippine independence; of a heart ailment; in Flemington, N.J.

Died. Gerard Swope, 84, white-haired, sparky longtime president of General Electric Co.. whose charge to the top began in 1893 as a dollar-a-day student helper ("a dirty, oily job") in the Chicago plant; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. An M.I.T. electrical-engineering graduate, Swope took the G.E. helm in 1922, consolidated its holdings over the next 17 years, diversified the company, built it into a $300 million corporation. Together with his radical board chairman, Owen D. Young, he was responsible for some of the most far-reaching labor policies in American industry, put into operation (after the 1929 crash) an unemployment insurance plan for 100,000 employees (before the days of social security). In 1931 he presented his famed "Swope Plan" for stabilizing industry, a scheme for a national organization of modified cartels in which competition would be limited, overproduction governed, workers and investors vigorously protected, and responsibility for unemployment put on the shoulders of industry. Swope retired in favor of Charles E. ("Electric Charlie") Wilson in 1939, and was named chairman of the New York City Housing Authority, but returned to the G.E. controls for the two years (1942-44) that Wilson served as vice chairman of the War Production Board, stepped down again when Wilson returned.

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